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Every man feels the pain, so it is very strange that this feeling so much overgrown with myths that have absolutely nothing to say about the reasons for its occurrence and about its essence. Most likely, this can be explained by the fact that the nature of man in society, there is a double view: the body and mind are considered two separate mechanisms. But the body and mind are one, and the pain is a result of their close collaboration in the process of continuous updating of information about the needs of the entire system. Below are the most common exposure of myths about pain.

1. Pain - is not feeling




Talk about the experience of pain as of a certain sensory experience (we are talking about comparing it, for example, with a touch, or a feeling of warmth) is false. Touch something and feeling of warmth is not always painful. These feelings just convey information, ie draw our attention to the flow of information. Pain, in turn, is primarily a threat. During the pain a person is given a signal "immediately take measures that it stop!»


The most common cause of death of our ancestors, as well as people in certain communities today is an infection that will inevitably accompany raneniya.Bol - a reminder that the wound must do right now. At the same emotions and motivation from pain are inseparable. Pain is not the antonym of fun. Our brains just rewards us for taking action to get rid of the pain. Scientists emphasize that it is an evolutionary mechanism that forces us to pay attention to their health.



We can distract from pain, some stimuli, both pleasant and unpleasant. However, it works only in those cases where we believe that getting rid of the pain we already someone is busy, or when the pain does not mean there is a serious threat to health.

2. Pain - this is not a signal of harm


Often the pain is given to pathological significance, even on the part of physicians. It is a mistake to assume that the degree of pain is directly proportional to the degree of damaged tissues. The main function of pain is to tell us about the wound, that the violation occurred the physical integrity of the body, but not on the extent of the violations.



Sometimes the pain and visual information is the same. This happens when we, for example, hit a toe on a chair leg or rezhemsya on paper. However, headache or abdominal pain is not associated with us with visible damage. Further, the pain may be the result of malfunction of the nervous system. pain sludge depends primarily on the signals entering the brain from the skin, muscle and internal organs. But also play an important role and emotional context, memory, fears, expectations, etc.



Often it becomes painful only on the fact that the head up memories of pain, or we imagine the pain of a loved one, when in fact at the moment we are in no danger.

3. Pain - this is not a feature of psychosomatic


Often, people add the prefix "psycho" to every thing that is not obvious. So often when we have something hurts, and we do not understand why this happens, we say that the origin of the pain is psychological connotations. In fact, Psychosomatics is the result of the dual approach, mentioned earlier in this article. We are talking about the separation of the brain from the body.



At the heart of this concept are the erroneous views, which are the source of pre-scientific times when functioning of the organism described and limits the scope of the movement of different fluids. It is necessary to treat with suspicion to believe that you have developed certain diseases due to failures in the "Setting the brain", as well as the advice to streamline the work of the psyche to leave all health problems.



Thus, the physical symptoms of psychosomatic origin do not have, because it is contrary to scientific evidence. Sometimes emotional comfort mitigates the pain, but it does not mean the unreality of pain. There are many people who pretend or exaggerate available to them pain, but it does not mean that any pain is a fake.

4. Laboratory experiments give nothing


Volunteers whose health condition is stable, and who get pain in moderation, do not show anything special. Short-term, moderate strength, as well as expected and disappears whenever you need the pain can not be a model of sudden, severe, unexplained pain, especially if the person is sure that he is mentally and physically vulnerable.

5. Pain does not always cause sympathy


Sometimes we see inner pain in his actions and words of another person, however, is not necessarily awaken in us compassion and desire pomoch.Chasto we perceive manifestations of pain suspicious of other people because of the fact that the fear of possible manipulation. This is very evident in health care facilities when personnel pays no attention to the pain of patients, sometimes even in those moments when it should be done.



Moreover, people are often deliberately cruel to hurt those whom they have to take care, that is the closest. To summarize, it should be noted that the pain - this is not a unique human experience. Animals also know what a pain though and have no soul in the human sense of the word.