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Pain: A Complex Phenomenon
- We all have experienced pain, be it physical or psychological.
- Trying to quantify or define the intensity of the hurt being experienced isn’t easy.
- Pain is relative, as each of us has a different anatomical and neurochemical build, a different context that makes it unique.
- All these factors make pain a complex phenomenon, and most of us are managing it pharmacologically (popping pills), which generally causes problems.
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The Human Body Is Not A Car
The basic mindset on how to tackle pain, by suppressing it with dangerous opioids or pain-killers is like treating a human body like a piece of machinery: Finding the broken part and fixing or replacing it.
The approach fails to understand how integrated the human body is, and com...
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Suppressing Pain Is Wrong
Most drugs and over-the-counter analgesics only suppress pain, and we think that’s normal as we are brought up believing that pain is wrong and we have to feel good at all times.
Research in the 1980s showed that Americans are having more options to treat their problems and yet are hav...
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Endure The Pain
Just reframing the painful experience as something that is beneficial and can be simply endured, increases the tolerance levels in humans who have been accustomed to popping pills in order to feel better, at the cost of long-term complications.
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