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Sunday, October 25, 2009

pain+anger: the top hits

http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/index.html?ID=2374
: capsule summary - if you vent anger easily, you're unlikely to have
a high resistance to pain.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200311/anger-pain-and-depression
: capsule summary - (snark) you're not special so cool it bub.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Pain-+-Blame-=-Anger&id=168725
: capsule summary - pain is the gasoline, blame is the match.

Helpful or not helpful, what's interesting to me is my own history
of "putting up with pain". (Not quite the same as "bottling it up",
although I sometimes do that too.) It's like I accepted both
pain and happiness as random events that would "happen
to me", and when they arrived, I would just "experience them".

Well that's pretty silly. Pain (or its augmented form, anger)
can take over... OK, it's sending a good message, maybe,
like, "time to heal!", but if that message is ignored, then
the pain (and/or anger) increases, and eventually nothing
else is noticeable.... then it's really time to do something,
huh?

Pain can be distracted-away-from --

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4865324
: capsule summary: "when children are asked to imagine being
in their favorite place or to watch TV or a funny movie or to play
a video game, chemical activity in the pain perception area of their
brain is drained away, and the kids report feeling less painful
sensations."

but is that the best way to heal or support healing? I sort of
doubt it.

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