Can pain be effectively avoided or ignored; Should we accept it; Is life meant to be painful; are we victims?

Question

So many people experience pain. Physical pain; Mental or psychological pain; Emotional Pain; Spiritual pain, Social Pain; Financial pain; The list goes on.

So many people fear pain with all their energy, sapping them of life. Anxiety regarding the possibility of experiencing pain (incl dying and death) is the most popular type of anxiety. It consumes many people's lives to the point of manic depression. 300 million scrips are filled for antidepressants and pain killers in the US every year. Over the counter drugs market several times that much. Illegal pain killers and illicit anti-depressants more still, ranked as the most financially profitable and most effectively marketed product in the world. All to make the pain stop, even for a few hours.

So many people fight pain, resist pain. They go through their lives putting on a brave face.
So many people accept pain, as if its inevitable.
So many more complain about their pain, victimising themselves.
Who's right? What do I do???

Hmm What am I asking?
For a person that has pain in all mentioned areas of life, physical, mental, emotional ... what is the best application or method for pain felt? Should I want it? Use it? Resist it? accept it? suffer because of it? suppress it? use drugs? ignore it? avoid it? evade it? create it? marry it? declare war on it? enter it? become it? absorb it? release it? end it?
What should I do? What should everyone do?
Sometimes the pain is intermittent, sometimes it is constant.
Sometimes it is dull and subtle, sometimes it is very pronounced, clear and obvious.
Sometimes it is imagined, sometimes it is introduced from an external source.
I know my description is as vague as it is unspecific. I know that any diagnosis would be all the more difficult, if I were wanting one. I'm not. I'm after opinions based on experience, feasible options based on popular observable results.
I WANT ANSWERS!!!

Answer 1

The question Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, sought to answer was, Why is there pain and suffering? Also, he held to the Hindu belief of reincarnation: after death one returns to earthly life in a higher or lower form of life according to his good or bad deeds. This belief prompted a second question that needed to be answered, How does one break this rebirth cycle? The basic teachings of Buddhism, therefore, focus on what Gautama believed to be the answer to these questions.
The principle tenet of Buddhism is the ‘Four Noble Truths’ – (1) There is pain and suffering in the world. (2) Attachment causes suffering. (3) The suffering will cease when a person can rid him/her self of all desires. (4) The extinguishing of all desires.

Answer 2

Less background, more question. What are you asking?

There are entire classes of pain that cannot be treated except by
induced sleep. The best people can do is to train themselves to
not feel or accept the pain using bio feedback and hypnotism.

Are you in pain?

You find out your options and then make a rational choice.

Answer 3

pain is just a part and a fact of life, everyone experiences pain.

Answer 4

We're not put here on this earth to feel pain, we're put here to overcome our pain and use your expierance to help other people overcome there pain.

Answer 5

I have bipolar disorder and I can't cope. The chemicals in my brain are messed up and only mood stabilizers help me.