Why does "pain" happen? What triggers it, and why do our bodies let us be so uncomfortable.?

Answer 1

As I understand it, pain is used to tell us when our bodies need attention to a certain area. Feeling in general serves this purpose. For instance, when you break a bone, it is painful because if it wasn't we (a) wouldn't really notice anything wrong, and (b) we would probably then damage the injury further. Pain is something of an alarm system, helping us kee our bodies in working order.

Answer 2

It is a warning system, however PAIN is lots of things. You can have physical pain, emotional pain or psychological pain each as real as the next. Remember, while I have Arthritis and probably believe no other Human has the same level as pain as I do, Pain is what exactly? You cannot see it, touch it, taste it, hear it, let alone smell it, therefore it is perceived and we all know that perceptions can be wrong.
With chronic physical pain the system just goes haywire. It starts by warning us that something is wrong, we see the Doc they prescribe the drugs and well the pain just keeps coming, hence chronic. Unless you can shut the system down and if you did I would probably end up worse off because I would not know if the water in the tap was warm, hot or boiling, thereby damaging myself further, you end up having to deal with it. Many people who are told they have Arthritis go into depression and that makes the physical pain seem ten times worse. So while yes it is uncomfortable, I could think of other words, you have to learn to deal with it.

Answer 3

When we experience pain, it is our body's way of telling us there is something wrong. Our Central Nervous System ( CNS) was " designed " to tell us that there is a problem. The CNS is a very intricate system. There are neurons, synapses, that connect to our pain receptors that relay messages to our body. If we didn't experience any pain, how would we know that something isn't right?? Pain is not anyone's favorite thing to experience but, we have pain for a reason. Each of us have our own " pain threshold ". Some people have a high tolerance to pain and yet, others have a low tolerance. The human body in itself is an amazing and interesting " life form".
I hope that this helps some. Here's a website (it is kind of techincal but,interesting)!
http://emedicinehealth.com/anatomy_of_the_central_nervous_system/article_em.htm

Answer 4

Oh, No..........look at it from the other way. There are people who do not ever feel pain. They have no clue when they bump into something, are bleeding from an injury, etc.. THIS is the bad way to go through life. Having pain allows us to realize when something is wrong with our body. It allows us to try to get it taken care of. Pain says, "Slow down! you have appendicitis! your muscles are too sore to work out today. You are having a heart attack. You just broke your toe. You are burning your body! " The point, is, that without pain, we would not know when to have our body's taken care of. We'd just go onward at work or play, with out labor pains and have that child right there............or, the consequences of not having pain for other reasons.

Answer 5

There are a whole pile of different noiceceptors all over our bodies to register pressure, temperature, etc. They send messages via your spine to your brain to make it stop! Without feeling, you would damage yourself a lot. Pain makes us take our hand out of the fire and move to a more comfortable position. Survival instinct

Answer 6

It is the body warning you something is wrong, get it fixed to prevent further damage. If it was not uncomfortable, we would ignore it.

Answer 7

Pain happens because God made us like this so that we can feel other people's pain and so our hearts don't become hard but become soft.