Why do we shout, when in sudden physical pain? Does shouting help reduce the pain?

Answer 1

Not everybody does, many people just wince.
I think shouting may be a reversion to infancy, calling for a mothers attention.

Answer 2

Let say we didn't have mouth. Then could we able to shout? Obviouly not. Then what is the reason behind the shouting? When we are hurt, we actually at that time exhale out our air through our mouth. We could have exhaled out air through other organs also, but the best free passage is our mouth.

Shouting doesn't actually reduce the pain, but it's our mind which is diverted by shouting. The person whose mind will not be diverted, will recieve the same pain.

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Answer 3

Physical pain causes panic and shouting is a reflection
of panic, in the same way as a fright panic. Shouting
seems to relieve some or most of the pain. This is
what I felt, but it may be only a personal reaction
when I went into heart surgery fully awake.

Answer 4

I am in severe pain at the moment with a pulled muscle in my back, and I wouldn't say I'm shouting but a sort of yell when I move wrong and the pain rips through me. Also, a quick inhale of breath when there is a sharp pain. I don't think it helps reduce the pain by yelling, but it's something you can't help but do.

Answer 5

The pain stimulates the nerve ending that relay it to brain. When brain recognizes this, the pain will be felt at that time suddenly, and shouting produced involuntarily depends upon the threshold of pain. If the pain is more shouting will be more. If it is less, no shouting at all.

Answer 6

Shouting is a reflex action that enables extra oxygen to enter the blood stream and attracts the attention of others around you, it also helps scare off an animal if that was the source of pain.

Answer 7

Shouting doesn't help reduce the pain. We shout, and pull our hand or whatever hurts away, because it's an impulsive reaction.
What happens is, when you get hurt, the nerve in your hand, for example, sends an electrical impulse up to your spinal cord and one comes back, which makes you pull your hand away. The one that went away from your hand, to the spinal cord, goes up to your brain, and it registers that you've hurt yourself, so you shout. This all happens in a matter of hundredths of a second...

Answer 8

Actually, I've noticed that I tend to shout even though the expected accident didn't happen, ie the hammer misses my thumb but I still cry out in pain, just in case.

I think it is simply our way of letting other people know that we are in danger and need help.

Answer 9

Everyone has experienced some degree of anxiety in response to stressful situations. For example, an important exam, being startled by a strange sound, or a near miss in a car is enough to get your heart beating very fast and your stomach chruning! The stressful situation will differ from one person to the next. For example, one person may find it stressful to be in a large crowd, another to be alone. The stress reaction is appropriate and usually passes once the situation is over. Some stress reactions may last longer, but they decrease over time.

For some people anxiety or stress starts to interfere with their day-to-day living, making it hard for them to cope with even normal pressures. When this happens we call this an "anxiety disorder". Anxiety disorders are common in the general population, yet only about 4-5% seek treatment for anxiety complaints each year. This probably represents only about a quarter of those who actually do experience clinically high levels of anxiety. Those who do not seek treatment for anxiety may try to cope by using alcohol or medication, or by avoiding the stressful situation. Many people may experience physical symptoms such as high blood pressure, headaches, or digestive problems, and yet not even realise that these are symptoms of anxiety.

Answer 10

It is a natural reaction going back to humanity's tribal times. Shouting out when experiencing pain is the body's well of calling for help and to cause fellow tribal members to help you.

Answer 11

We base life on predictions, most of conversational speech is prediction, people talk so fast that we don't actually hear the words, we just us logic to suggest soundalikes to fit and make sense. The same is with pain. At least once in your life you will have experienced some sort of heavy pain, to which you reacted with crying out. So from then on we predict that it will be painful, it's psychosematic.