{"id":40853,"date":"2025-09-03T12:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:46:09","slug":"chronic-pain-is-real-we-need-to-end-the-stigma-woman-on-her-decades-long-struggle-with-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40853\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Chronic pain is real. We need to end the stigma\u2019 \u2013 woman on her decades-long struggle with condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Campaign under way to highlight burden carried by a third of people across Ireland\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chronic Pain Ireland member Elizabeth Mansfield from Dundrum. Photo: Paul Sharp\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/8791023b-0334-4320-92b0-9c0bd1ece0f1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chronic Pain Ireland member Elizabeth Mansfield from Dundrum. Photo: Paul Sharp<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">When Elizabeth Mansfield was just 33, her life was upended by something she could not see. Often, neither could anyone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Working in a demanding role that required regular travel, meetings and deadlines, the Dubliner noticed a persistent ache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaign under way to highlight burden carried by a third of people across Ireland Chronic Pain Ireland member&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[275],"tags":[18,135,475,474,19,17,1842],"class_list":{"0":"post-40853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-sarah-burke"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}