2006-09-26 05:44:52 · 14 answers · asked by little 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
There is the functional aspect of alerting the other members of the tribe that we are hurt and need help and that there is also a possibility of danger to them as well from whatever is making us scream (bear, leopard, snake, etc.) but there is another aspect as well, which I discovered during one of my episodes.
I have a chronic pain condition called Fabry's disease (www.fabry.org if you're interested in the specifics) and before it was diagnosed I would have episodes of extreme pain in my joints lasting anywhere from a few hours to two weeks one time. And during one of those episodes I realized that for those brief seconds that I was howling and crying from the throbbing agony in my hands, my brain wasn't focusing on the pain.
Pain is intolerable to the mind, by design. Things that are damaging to you hurt. If something hurts, you stop doing it. Thus you avoid damaging your body before you have a chance to reproduce. Evolution at work.
However, if you're in a situation where you are experiencing pain and cannot stop it, it's like a massive noise in your head that you can't turn off. Your mind freaks out and, by screaming or crying, makes a bigger noise in your head than the pain does. I know that's a little vague but it's the best way I can put it.
2006-09-26 05:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by Guelph 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
Weeping, crying, and even screaming out the pain makes the hind and midbrain to push up and out blocked feeling and energy through the cortex for processing and integrating. Pain that is exorcised from deep brain centers moves up and then out.When all of the pain is brought up and out, the person relieves the brain of its excess of neurotransmitter outputs and help to restore the equilibrium of a balanced brain system. Along the process the pain perceived is lessened to some degree. IIn case of emotional pain, instead of investing all of the brain's defensive chemistry to holding in and denying pain, the pleasure and joy centers become activated and ecstasy returns to the person's life after screaming.
Once feeling pain, weep, cry, or scream it out- it will give some sort of relief.
2006-09-26 06:37:06 · answer #2 · answered by ♥ lani s 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know, as a way of expressing that pain I guess. It's a natural reflex, we've been doing it since birth.
2006-09-26 05:53:01 · answer #3 · answered by GirlUdontKnow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its just a reaction to pain.
I don't scream though, I may yelp sometimes or just hold it in.
2006-09-26 05:52:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we scream to make us our body realise that we are suffering through pain or something has went wrong which hurts our body.....and causes us to scream.....
2006-09-26 05:50:00 · answer #5 · answered by sur k 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a reaction to help sooth the pain.
2006-09-26 05:47:48 · answer #6 · answered by Curious J. 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its a neuritical impulse to the feeling of a vicissitude (change) in an external factor such as pressure or temperature,on the surface of the skin
2006-09-26 08:08:55 · answer #7 · answered by dreamz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In part, it is the bodies way to alert us that there is something wrong or about to go wrong.
2006-09-26 05:47:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Release & primal cry of assistance/help.
2006-09-26 05:46:24 · answer #9 · answered by irisheyes 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
good question..what I really want to know is why do we cry when we're happy and when we're sad...
2006-09-26 05:52:17 · answer #10 · answered by Celesta 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋