Pain? A good thing or a bad thing?

Question

Doesn't it let us know when something is wrong emotionally and physically? Yet we try to avoid it at all costs...?

Answer 1

I once saw an article about a young man who could not feel pain - lucky sod, I thought, but then the reporter wnet on to tell about how he'd rested his hand on an electric hob ring whilst reaching for something and burnt himself to the bone....
Makes you think

Answer 2

It all depends in the context in witch you are using pain. It could be good and bad, it all depends! If you use the word pain, I don't think of blood or outer hurting. But I think of emotional pain, an unspoken pain. The worst pain you can get!!

I feel pain as an broken hart or an be traded soul. But there is the pain that I also have when I say goodbye to my friends on the airport and see them leaving, having the pain of joy for them but also sadness. If I would ask my little cousin what is pain he would lift his leg and show me his "manly scares" and he would tell me how painful they were!

But it is true that it may be a warning sigh like you said, but I would have to disagree. After falling down and you sit there bleeding, tears fall because you feel pain. I wouldn't say that was a warning sign, may may for the next time but not for then, When you get your hart tore to shreds, its done and over, pain come pain go, but is wasn't pain that was the warning sign, It is what you have learned out of the situation you were in and your hart conected it to pain. But it was the eksperience not the pain that taught you. Pain just walks with it to make it a little wors! So we could actually see what happend.

We all run away from the word pain, but we all feel it different. Yes we all try to avoid it and doge it, but it comes in different ways! Some just less visible then others. We all get them some time, one way or the other!!

Good-Bad, different!

Answer 3

It is both. Pain lets us know when something is wrong in with our body or our emotional well being, that is the good part, the bad part and why we try to avoid it is simply that it hurts like hell.

I always thought that we should have a part on our body that flashes when we are hurting, but then again, people would probably just cover it up.

Answer 4

Of course we try to avoid it - that's the whole point in it! Pain is experienced as unpleasant because it is detrimental to our purpose - survival. By experiencing pain, we recognise when we are damaging our body via exposure to a chemical, temperature, surface etc which is physically damaging us; when we are over exetring ourselves and hence causing damage to our muscles, and perhaps even major organs; and helping us to recognise whne there is something wrong with our bodies, e.g a heart-attack, a virus, or a broken bone. By making pain an uncomfortable and unpleasant signal, the body and brain ensure that one will seek, or at least be offered the necessary help needed to increase chances of survival. If it were a pleasant thing, no one would bother, and everyone would die of major or minor ailments.

Conditions whereby one does not experience pain can be extremely problematic, as the individual can find themselves constantly in life-threatening situations.

On the other side of the coin, there are conditions where there is something wrong with the body for the entire lifespan, and as such, pain is experienced constantly. In this case, pain seems a little futile, as one is fully aware by the age of thirteen or so that this is teh case, for example, with butterfly syndrome (EBD?) whereby the slightest touch can result in tearing of the skin, and conditions where bones fracture and break even simply by stroking one's arm, or shaking someone's hand.

Likewise, pain in childbirth seems somewhat unneccesary, and is hence avoided via drugs to some small extent. However, this is merely a consequence of evolution.

In the case of emotional pain, it works just like physical pain - as a deterrent from situations which are not good for us, and acts to motivate us to correct this, either by avoiding the situation in future, or rectifying the problem in order to allievate the symptoms of emotional distress.

Pain, from an evolutionary perspective is a very good thing in MOST cases, as it helps to motivate our survival, however, from a personal point of view it is unpleasant, and in some cases, for example the afore mentioned syndromes, somewhat dysfunctional.

Answer 5

Pain is a good thing. It's a sign of being alife. When I go to the dentist I want to feel what is being done. At the gym, it is okay to feel your muscles take some effort. Being hurt or getting hurt is part of life. If you can't deal with it physically, how can you ever deal with it emotionally? Feeling and accepting pain is part of our growing process. No pain, no gain.

Answer 6

Pain, a very good thing yes. Glad to note there are people like you who are open to consider it thus.
It takes a deeper perception of life to see how to make use of the pain to grow ! And actions warranted are only towards taking care of the hitherto neglected organ , limb, or part of the body better, to cure the cause, not the symptom !
The emotional pain is still worse. It shows that our attitude needs a correction very badly !

Answer 7

In some ways a good thing, it's a safety mechanism. Okay, the physical experience of pain is not enjoyable, but without it we wouldn't know that we were doing ourselves harm. The result of that could be lots of damage to our bodies.

Answer 8

it is a good thing it makes you feel alive.
yet no one enjoys pain.. well not most of us anyway! that's why we avoid it!
sometimes pain is a sign of growth not just to let you know that something is wrong!
But if something hurts your not going to WANT it again! at least the pain! I know i don't go looking for it but if it comes my way i'll handle it the way i see fit!
Mad luv

Answer 9

Yes, pain does let us know and that is why it is a good thing, so as long as we listen to pain and try to find out what is wrong, then we can go ahead and try to reduce or eliminate it.

Pain let's us know we are alive.

Answer 10

Why must it be good or bad? It just is - or isn't - felt. Most of us - particularly as we get a bit older - have odd aches and twinges here and there, or we stub our toe or get tennis elbow and so on. If we're feeling cheerful or are busily occupied we often don't even notice the papin. If we're bored or unhappy, we do and it bothers us. Same pain, different perception.

Answer 11

Pain is the only way for our bodies (or minds) to let us know something is wrong. Without it, we wouldn't survive. We try to avoid it because it's very unpleasant.