Actress Hwang Suk-jung said she endured a period of severe pain with no identifiable cause.
Hwang discussed her recent bout of pain in a video posted on the 17th to the YouTube channel "Bible That Went to a Temple."
In the episode, broadcaster Kim Sung-kyung recalled how Hwang had carried the stage alone for two hours and 20 minutes in the play "An Iliad."
"I don't even know how I did it. I was in pain. I thought I had been struck by a shaman's calling," Hwang said.
Visiting a temple with Kim, Hwang said her life had left her with no room to breathe. "My heart races and I have obsessive compulsive symptoms," she said. "I even developed panic attacks, but people don't know I'm sick. This time I was in so much pain I nearly died."
She said she had suffered a pain syndrome. "I went through agony that came without any reason. I couldn't sleep, couldn't lie down and couldn't sit," she said. "My whole body felt like it was on fire, and the pain was severe."
Hwang said the ordeal also led her to reflect on her own state of mind.
"Once I thought the cause of the pain was within me, everything around me went quiet," she said. "After that, it got better little by little."
She said her condition has since improved.
"I'm not in pain now. I'm still taking medication, of course, but I think I've become someone who can find joy in small things," Hwang said.
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