Sunshine119 -> RE: Have you ever used play to mask day to day pain? (1/28/2007 11:28:08 AM)
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I saw the post about using pain to control physical or mental pain....which then turned into a discussion of cutters. So, I was about to post one addressing the use of pain to control physical pain when I saw this one. I had a near death car accident 10 years ago, shattered my left arm into many, many piece and ended up with neurological damage from nerves that were severed, grew back wrong, etc. Flying through spinal cord stimualtors (removed) and good pain meds (which help), I still have days in which the pain is nearly unmanageable. I beg His Highness to beat my ass until it is red and bruised on those days and my nipples are so tortured I can't put clothing against them. Somehow, this gets my own endorphins in high drive and, while the pain from the injuries just sustained are thought of as "pleasant", the mean, nasty, vicious pain temporarily goes into hiding. Pain is very subjective. Before the accident, I would have placed "childbirth" (which on the 1-10 scale established by physicians is usually a 10) at a 10. After, it is only a 5. Pain sucks!
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