No one knows our bodies or our subjective experiences like we do. This means we can rest secure in our knowledge of ourselves and what we’re going through, even when the medical profession doesn’t understand...

Every single ounce of pain focused on the left part of the head. Feels like whole body except left part of head is in fucking numb state.

The return of the voices would end in a migraine that made my whole body throb. I could do nothing except lie in a blacked-out room waiting for the voices to get infected by the...

Paint what you know, especially if it looks like something you shouldn’t know.

And then a throb hits you on the left ide of the head so hard that your head bobs to the right…There’s no way that came from inside your head, you think. That’s no metaphysical...

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

I didn’t feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (…) We once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed used to fall on his knees and...

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

Depression affects almost 80% of migraine sufferers at one time or another. People with migraine, especially chronic migraine, also are more likely to experience intense anxiety and to have suicidal tendencies. If we want to...