1. The Art of Suffering: Christina's Story
Jeanne Kerwin, DMH, CT 
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 
Volume 52, Issue 5, Pages (November 2016)
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2. Fig. 1
Nightmare. Describes the abject terror young Christina felt in her dreams and in her reality shortly into the experience of her rehabilitation after her injury.
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3. Fig. 2
Broken dreams. Christina had her dream job, teaching art to young children. This piece shows her classroom filled with water, her broken name plate on the door, as she sits outside the door in a puddle, never to resume her teaching.
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4. Fig. 3
Time. Two years after her injury, she paints this scene of her surreal wedding, her face the face of a clock with time ticking toward a cure, the aisle she is walking down is her spine, and the tiny door at the far end represents the hope for a cure. … distant, but still in her mind.
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5. Fig. 4
All I feel is the pain. An incredible visual description of her loss of having physical intimacy.
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6. Fig. 5
Drowning in misery. The magnitude of Christina's sadness and the weight of her regrets are so powerfully displayed in this painting.
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