What you Weren't Taught About Chronic Pain Pain is a bio-psycho-social phenomenon, meaning that we need to target all 3 in order to recover from chronic pain. Modern medicine has taught us to view the mental and physical health as two separate things, but this does not match the biological reality of how the nervous system, pain, and the brain are all intertwined. While this does NOT mean the pain is "all in your head," the solution is likely not going to be solely in address