Gosh, I remember when I was a kid, and my Sunday school teacher told me that all my father had to do was pray to get rid of his asthma! I came home and told him, and, well, he was very nice about it, but it doesn't work that way.

Your idea that RSI is in your head has the same issue: "It doesn't work that way." SOME pain is in the mind. Some pain in the body can be mitigated with mental techniques. Some.

> all pain is just based on expectation

This statement is wildly false.

Now, I studied pain control, and when I fell into a hole and was injured in Bali, I was able to function and even continue to speak Indonesian until I got to medical help and could pass out, simply with breath control. I almost never take painkillers. The technical of detaching from pain has significant value, and I have taught it to others.

But some things are wildly painful and can't be dismissed that way...

You know, I'm not even going to type about some miserable things I have briefly experienced, and some horrible things I saw happen to other people, other stoic people even, or about objectively provable imaging (X-rays, etc) of damage caused to people by RSI.

Life is too short for such downers. We both know they exist.

Your ideas do not agree with the consensus of medicine, or the experience of humans. You should re-examine your beliefs.

I do hope you never get first-hand experience of how very wrong you are.