I have seen chronic pain first hand through my grandmother. She has had chronic pain for the past few years and it ranges everywhere from chronic back pain to fibromyalgia. I know that it has been hard and definitely annoying for her to have had to deal with chronic pain for the past few years. I think one unhealthy way that people in our society attempt to treat/deal with chronic pain is self medication. They decide that their back or hip is hurting, and have some pain pills left over from a surgery or an injury and begin to take the pain pills without a prescription. Another thing that people do that is not healthy is try to ignore it. According to the TED talk, the longer the pain is happening, the harder it will be to eventually control the pain. Finally, I think it could be bad to see multiple doctors if you are not relaying the information of what each doctor has prescribed. Two doctors could prescribe two different pain medications and then the patient is more susceptible to addiction. I think that three good habits would be to: see a doctor, take only what has been prescribed to you, and possibly seen a therapist of some kind since pain also has to do with your perception of pain. In the Amygdala, Scripps claims that NOP-coding genes are being targeted in rats to help test the effect of nociceptin on stress. Opioids are the types of drugs that can be taken to block pain in this area of the brain. I personally believe that people can control how they feel pain. There are obviously physical factors so you can't control it entirely but I believe your psychological perception of pain has an effect to the degree you feel pain.
References
The mysterious science of pain - Joshua W. Pate. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-mysterious-science-of-pain-joshua-w-pate
Nociceptin: Nature's Balm for the Stressed Brain. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2014/20140108roberto.html