How do you coup with pain?
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Usually through convincing myself that it's not that bad and that it can always be worse. My friends and I agree that I have a moderate resilience to physical pain. Emotional pain, however, I am not as good with. Usually I just wait it off, I'm bad about sharing/expressing my emotions with others.
I either mentally push the pain away or ignore it. This works quite well, especially having purposely avoided painkillers (and other medicines in general) since I was small.
Emotional pain I try to find the source of the problem. Even if I don't act upon it immediately this seems to help. Alternatively, I just put it out of my mind with good memories.
Emotional pain I try to find the source of the problem. Even if I don't act upon it immediately this seems to help. Alternatively, I just put it out of my mind with good memories.
physical i make it worse but not to a degree where it will stay worse just enough so when it goes back to the original pain it feels not too bad
physical pain i just curl up in my and cry like a little girl or bite my thumb to dull the pain of the other thing.
And emotional pain i cant really explain but i deal with it by shove it down with other thing's un-healthy mabye but it works.
And emotional pain i cant really explain but i deal with it by shove it down with other thing's un-healthy mabye but it works.
I speak French and I HONESTLY thought this thread was about how to properly cut bread for a split second before I looked at myself and said "No...no that's stupid, and you're stupid for thinking it Stupid McIdiothead."
I cope with pain fairly well. Dislocated my knee 5 times and now just pop in back in myself if it happens, so I guess that's something?
I cope with pain fairly well. Dislocated my knee 5 times and now just pop in back in myself if it happens, so I guess that's something?
Well first, I hire the Russian mercenary, Demetri Radanov, to take a few of his men to the local government office and round up some lofty officials. Then, I inform him that he may use his beloved 'Shallishaska' on the prisoners until the United Nations gives in to our demands. Finally-
WHAT? You said coup, and that's how you do one with physical pain! I KNOW he meant COPE, but it was funnier this way!
WHAT? You said coup, and that's how you do one with physical pain! I KNOW he meant COPE, but it was funnier this way!
Usually painkillers but if that's not an option I just swear or cry. With a pain like breaking something its usually swearing, but with, um, lady pains its a lot different (really so much worse than you guys think it is) I never no how to react so a bit of wailing and screaming, then my body takes over and deals with it with throwing up, overheating and sweating, panic attacks and nervous reactions where I can't feel or move my legs properly. Yeah, it's not a nice image but you asked about pain and that's the worst pain I've ever been in. And it happens often -.-
With physical pain I find myself counting musical notations in my head to keep my mind off of it. I had to do this once when I was getting a tooth drilled and the numbing medication wouldn't work. They told me they couldn't put me under and that one way or another they would have to drill the tooth. So they did, and though I was in a lot of pain, somehow running music through my head and making a very forced mental note of each beat kept me from immense agony. I have to admit though, it did not resolve my pain, it only helped distract me from it. Still, it works even today with other things and that's not so bad.
As for mental/emotional, I just put it away. Its not like it builds up, but I can put in in a 'box' if you will, and then stow it away. I can open the box from time to time to look at what bothered me, but at that point I'm just an observer to it rather than a recipient of it. Strange maybe, but it works for whatever reason.
As for mental/emotional, I just put it away. Its not like it builds up, but I can put in in a 'box' if you will, and then stow it away. I can open the box from time to time to look at what bothered me, but at that point I'm just an observer to it rather than a recipient of it. Strange maybe, but it works for whatever reason.
I usually deal with it on a mental state. I try to take myself out of the moment and stay focused on either a certain thought or feeling not related to physical pain. I learned how to do this by being phsyically abused by my mother, father and older brother right around age 4. After my brother beat me to a certain point when I was 9, I lost most feeling in my left forearm. Beside that, military training gets you used to both pain you'd feel from it being inflicted on you and when working out.
But when I got into Kung-fu, my Sifu did "conditioning" on my body, striking areas of my body, over and over until the pain receptors in my body would be dulled. This mainly came into realization when a car ran into my left leg and the most I did was go "Mrrgh!" and look at the driver. So yeah, at the risk of sounding off, a life time of phsyical abuse, beatings, a stabbing, being shot once got me used to it and I can take my mind out of it.
But when I got into Kung-fu, my Sifu did "conditioning" on my body, striking areas of my body, over and over until the pain receptors in my body would be dulled. This mainly came into realization when a car ran into my left leg and the most I did was go "Mrrgh!" and look at the driver. So yeah, at the risk of sounding off, a life time of phsyical abuse, beatings, a stabbing, being shot once got me used to it and I can take my mind out of it.
Emotionally: I have a really good cry by myself, in my office. I usually feel a lot better. However, I tend to bottle up my emotions.
Physical Pain: I've never taken any prescribed painkillers for physical pain, even when I had a quad accident and it was suggested that I probably should have. I hardly ever take headache medicine. I've taken Ibuprofen before, but that was more for swelling, then pain. I just kind of deal with it until it goes away. But if it grows increasingly worse and I can't function in my day to day anymore, then I do seek medical help. But even then, I'm still wary of taking anything,..even if prescribed.
I do however, use New Skin on most wounds, like a boss. But it's not a painkiller, it's an antiseptic. It feels like you poured acid all over the wound.
Physical Pain: I've never taken any prescribed painkillers for physical pain, even when I had a quad accident and it was suggested that I probably should have. I hardly ever take headache medicine. I've taken Ibuprofen before, but that was more for swelling, then pain. I just kind of deal with it until it goes away. But if it grows increasingly worse and I can't function in my day to day anymore, then I do seek medical help. But even then, I'm still wary of taking anything,..even if prescribed.
I do however, use New Skin on most wounds, like a boss. But it's not a painkiller, it's an antiseptic. It feels like you poured acid all over the wound.
