# Some notes on my experience with repetitive strain injury

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> So this Parisian dentist with impossible levels of facial symmetry ushers me into an exam room where he takes some X-rays and taps around the tooth that hurts then after a while he says, “You have two pains: the physical pain and the psychological pain”. And then with a drill he slightly reshapes the tooth that hurts so that I’m not clenching down on just it, and tells me to stop clenching my jaw.
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> What is the moral of this story? I guess it’s a story about having a need that is capably met by a compassionate expert. Which, come to think of it, should not be an unrelatable story at all. _My hope for you is that your needs will be met by a compassionate expert._ I think that’s something that we all deserve. So thank you to that compassionate expert in Paris.
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> [John Green - _The Parisian Dentist: My least relatable story_](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yCiZLFNxwpY)

I’ve been using a computer keyboard and mouse since around 2008.

Around 2020, I began to notice pain in my hands and my forearms.

In retrospect, I think it probably started even earlier; I kept wanting to buy different keyboards, that nothing “felt right”, that I wasn’t able to type properly.