All that hurts!

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Congenital analgesia is the inborn inability to feel any physical pain. I thought it was the coolest possible condition, how amazing would life be without pain slowing us down? It is of two types, TypeI the patient fails to perceive pain (lack the receptors that perceive the painful stimuli). In TypeII even though the patient would feel pain would be unable to respond to it (no matter how much they suffer they won't withdraw, not even flinch). Fascinated, I continued to read. Despite sounding beneficial, it is actually an extremely dangerous condition. Children with this condition often suffer oral cavity damage both in and around the oral cavity (such as having bitten off the tip of their tongue) or fractures to bones. Because the child cannot feel pain, they may not respond to problems, thus being at a higher risk of more severe diseases. Huh, pain acts an indicators? Ironically, prevents damage and prepares us for worse, why did I never realize that before.
Not to sound cliché or Grey's Anatomy-ish, because that's exactly where I heard it, it hurts for a reason. 
Pain of all things makes us strong, prepares us for what's coming, without pain we wouldn't even realize something is off. It hurts, because something is at stake. All that heart ache you wish, you didn't have to suffer from, is going to bring out the strongest version of you, wiser too perhaps.
To be scared of pain is absurd, I'll tell you what to be scared of; be scared of reaching a point where you don't feel a thing anymore, be scared of the numbness, be scared of not being scared of anything anymore. 

Truth is all of us are masochistic in one way or other, some are into BDSM, while some like poking our bruises, moving that sore joint again and again, while the rest of us re read those last texts over and over as a guilty pleasure but only a few are so dangerously addicted that they keep going back to those who hurt us. We crave pain, because it makes us feel alive. 

~Pain traces the outline of our organs, we feel them working and wonder how we never noticed them before.


Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM

    Interesting analogy.
    However, emotional instabilty and a fractured nose are two distinct features of pain regarding other aspects which you failed to measure due to the limited activity of your brain.
    Consequently, you forgot to mention the third and most significant kind of it; pain in the ass. You have to deal with it more often than the other two.

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  2. UnknownMarch 6, 2016 at 1:32 PM

    Interesting analogy.
    However, emotional instabilty and a fractured nose are two distinct features of pain regarding other aspects which you failed to measure due to the limited activity of your brain.
    Consequently, you forgot to mention the third and most significant kind of it; pain in the ass. You have to deal with it more often than the other two.

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  3. UnknownJune 25, 2016 at 5:23 PM

    I crave pain! I found my answer!

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