Since I first mentioned the possibility that the chronic pain in my hand may be all  in my head I have made an incredible amount of progress. In the span of just a few weeks I’ve gone from barely being able to type for more then a few minutes without pain to effectively typing as much as I want. It turns out that much of the pain was psychosomatic. I’ve been working with a psychotherapist to try and get to the root of why my mind thinks my hand is in pain when it really isn’t. I’ll spare you the gory details but I will say that my original hypothesis (that I was exaggerating my symptoms to keep me from writing anything I might not like) seems to have been largely correct.

I’m certainly not “cured” by any means, nor am I really back to 100%, but for the first time in a while I feel pretty optimistic about not being tethered to my desktop and dictation software every time I want to writer something. Shit I haven’t even used the dictation software in close to a month. I’ve refrained from saying much because I didn’t want to jinx myself but at this point I feel pretty confidant about all of this. It still blows me away that this was just all in my head, but it looks like it’s true.