So Much More Than a Headache: Understanding by Kathleen J. O'Shea PAPERBACK

So Much More Than a HeadacheUnderstanding Migraine Through Literature\nAuthor(s): Kathleen J. O'Shea\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Kent State University Press, United States\nImprint: Kent State University Press\nISBN-13: 9781606354032, 978-1606354032\nSynopsis\n\""English,\"" wrote Virginia Woolf, \""which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. . . . let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry.\""\n\nDespite Woolf's astute observation and the apparent dearth of writings on such subjects, editor Kathleen O'Shea has managed to gather a wide selection of helpful excerpts, chapters, poetry, and even a short play in this anthologyall with a view toward increasing our understanding and ending the stigma attached to migraines and migraine sufferers. Unlike clinical materials, this anthology addresses the feelings and symptoms that the writers have experienced, sometimes daily. Th""