When a person comes up
to you and hurts your feelings in a certain way, have you ever stop to think
where is this pain coming from? Or when a romantic breakup with your
significant other hurts you within your stomach tied into a knot or you have
pain within your body, what kind of pain is this? Is there even such thing of
this cause? People have different varieties of pain within our bodies. Physical
pain, emotional pain internally and externally. But in this certain case it’s
internal. What is this called exactly your thinking?
Yes, it’s called social
pain.
Hurting people’s
feelings in some way do resemble physical pain; in such ways not only that it
is considered real life pain in another type of way.
According to the book,
it states that you can relieve this social pain with the pain- relieving drug
acetaminophen, which is also known as Tylenol. This is interesting because the
everyday medication issued for other purposes, may fix social pain. I wonder if
any type of medication can also be administered for example, Advil, Motrin,
Excedrin, and Ibuprofen to relieve the pain.
I find this very
fascinating because I’ve never really thought of where the social pain really
came from within our bodies. Hurting people’s feelings in the smallest thing,
can take effect in social pain. I guess when someone really states they have a
broken heart over a break up; we now know more or less what it really is.
Experimenters that did
research by monitoring people’s brain activity. Thus, during this task it was
found that a significantly increased activity in the cingulate cortex was being
activated during this process. All in all, they recorded that the cingulate
cortex responds to the emotional aspect of pain.
Michelle, your post was very interesting in that it relayed some information that I was not aware of. I had never heard of over the counter drugs, such as Tylenol aiding in psychological or emotional alleviation of pain. I, personally would not take the medication to alleviate that type of pain and there are many others who wouldn't either. Several other people I know won't even take the meds for physical pain and prefer to drink water, thus I feel it would be hard to get a widespread amount of people to take this medication for those purposes.
ReplyDeleteEmotional pain can be very difficult to deal with, particularly if the person is not aware or educated why pain happens, how it works in the body and where it occurs in the brain. That was me back then. Any pain, emotional pain, I experienced was excruciatingly debilitating for me... But as I grew older and increasingly got a little bit more educated and aware everyday through school and my major, I am able to cope with these experiences and sensations a little smarter, putting less emotional strain and stress on myself than I originally used to...
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