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From changing negative thoughts to accepting pain, S’pore psychologist helps chronic pain patients cope
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Clinical psychologist Bridgette Sum’s role is to shift patients’ perspective on pain and help them find practical solutions to live with it.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF BRIDGETTE SUM
When patients see clinical psychologist Bridgette Sum, many have high hopes that she will be able to eradicate their chronic pain.
She tells them, gently, that she is not there to do that. Her role is to shift their perspective on pain and help them find practical solutions to live with it.
