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Apr 15, 2016, 04:12 AM
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Member Since: Jun 2008
Location: WYLTK
Posts: 768
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Originally Posted by Ladycakes
It has actually been found that physical pain symptoms are actually more painful in people who are suffering mental illness. I can't give the proper scientific explanation, but it is all based on the chemical and hormonal interactions in the brain, the brain is more receptive to pain. So in a healthy person, a sore back might feel like a pain level of 4 on a scale of 1-10, but to someone with depression for example, the pain translates more at say a level 7. So it's not just that we are not as good at dealing with physical symptoms, pain really is more painful!
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wow, thanks. great info. so it's a 'brain' thing and not a 'mind' thing - so good to know.
I wanted to get some outsiders perspectives and thoughts on this. cuz on top of my MI, I now have injuries and pains from a car crash. and some of the comments that people have been making to me just really got me thinking.
like the one my dad made the other day. I had asked him to come over and close one of the big shed doors here cuz it wasn't closed right. (that was like a couple weeks ago) and the door catches on the bottom, so it does take some pushing/shoving/pulling to get it closed tight (as in back/arms/neck/legs type work). he wasn't busy so it was no big deal. then the other day he was here in that shed and "showed" me how to close the door. he leaned backward against it and said 'you just use your butt do to it'. 
I said to him, 'that's hard to do when your low back is the problem'. and he said 'mine is too'. (then something like 'you just have to suck it up'.) okay, I'm not trying to be a jerk here. my dad is a farmer and has been for like almost forty years. and I know it's physically demanding work so I have no doubt that his back would hurt him from time to time.
but comparing aches and pains to a relatively new injury doesn't seem like a fair comparison, especially when he really doesn't know much about my injuries or how much pain it can cause.
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