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Recieved: 2003/01/24 22:30
Subject: [k-list] What is pain for?
From: Susan Carlson

On 2003/01/24 22:30, Susan Carlson posted thus to the K-list:

> what is pain for?
> does it have a purpose?
> I read somewhere (Osho I think) that pain is to make us more alert.
From a Darwinian standpoint, pain helps protect and preserve the species until it reproduces itself. The more higher and complex the organism the more sensitivity to pain is present...i.e. humans feel and epress pain in a more complex way than say a clam.

Ask a diabetic how important the feeling of pain is when his/her nerve endings have been destroyed by high blood sugar. There are major lifestyle modifications required when one feels no physical pain.

Emotional pain....hmmm...another kettle of fish altogether...

As a nurse the definition of pain is, "whatever the patient says it is." That is why we often use a scale of numbers from one to ten to describe pain with 10 being the unmanageable worst pain you have ever felt to 1, a barely feel it kind of sensation. There are definate cultural variances. Hispanic males are notably stoic about their pain. Russian males will be stoic where Russian females may not. Ineffective pain management by health care is often the subject of lawsuits.

Chronic pain depresses the immune system and slows healing and and almosts always results in depression. Acute pain can lower the blood pressure and send someone into shock if it is severe enough.

The mind is important in the management and interpretation of pain. Just ask a masochist.

Namaste,

Susan

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