Imagine yourself on the cruise ship of life. Everything is sailing along nicely until chronic pain throws you overboard. Yikes! While everyone else is having a grand time onboard eating, drinking and being merry, you are floating in a sea of pain, isolated and scared. What should you do? Should you shout for help, telling everyone that you are in pain? Or should you float away? Should you reach for the social life-preserving ring that is thrown your way? Or should you just keep floating away tow...