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its good to have pain it shows when your body is in struggle like if you have your hand on a hot burner eventually it will uhhh how to say this well, lets say it will break or burst open. if you had pain you would know to pull it away.

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no man not at all, i usualy don't feal pain but i think that is becouse i take painkillers and i drink lots of coffee

Regardless be it physical pain or emotional pain, it would not be good not to feel it. It is the body's way to protect itself and make us feel human.

Physical pain is at times, a way our bodies tell us there is something wrong. Pain is at times an important symptom of illnesses.

So, pain can help us at time.

Emotional pain is bad and can either strengthen you or break you apart.

Though we can all say that pain is painful and annoying.

Without physical pain, you lose your body's sensors. Pretend if you cannot feel pain, you accidentally place your hand on the burner. Your hand will be useless after this ordeal. Just like many of those who have lost the feeling in their lower body, it begins to rot, because they don't know what is happening down there. While doing rounds in the ICU (intensive care unit), I have seen a paralysis patient with his left leg gone, and his right leg began to uh... "fester". So pain is an important part, because if knew he had a cut on his leg, he could have prevented the infection(s).

Now that emotional pain... is... for the weak imo "man up and face the pain".

No pain hm... Perhaps you should get a freind to beat you half to death with a spiked mace while people watch and clap and throw $100 bills.

DDX: Your examples are correct but I'd like to be a little more specific for everybody's benefit. There is (I think) no direct causal link that goes loss of nociception --> necrotic changes, despite their associations in several pathologies. I'll use the example of poorly controlled diabetes to demonstrate why.

Diabetes can cause poor vascular supply and diabetic neuropathy, which may involve loss of sensation. The latter is caused by the former. The former is the eventual cause of necrotic changes, but note that it is actually largely independent of diabetic neuropathy itself, and when it is associated with loss of sensation, that's because dead tissue is, well, dead.

There are a range of syndromes that specifically affect one's pain sensation either primarily (some form of neuropathy) or secondarily (e.g. stroke patient with sensory loss and foot-drop causing said patient to drag their toe until the toe literally drops off), and their presentations most often do follow the examples that DDX has mentioned- traumatic injury exacerbated by lack of treatment due to lack of awareness.

That disorder is really rare. I doubt any of you have it. You would seriously know if you had it, and others would notice. You would fall and get a cut, and bleed, but not feel pain and be fine with it.

You guys just don't feel pain due to anger, or being in the middle of focusing on something. Adrenaline, and focus make your body more inclined to ignore pain to some degree. Like while playing sports, or getting in a fight, you would not feel the pain until later.


But in response to the questions. Yeah, it would be bad not to feel pain. It would be pretty scary I think. You wouldn't know when and if you were hurting yourself, or if there was something wrong with you.

But in response to the questions. Yeah, it would be bad not to feel pain. It would be pretty scary I think. You wouldn't know when and if you were hurting yourself, or if there was something wrong with you.

Thats kinda weird.

While it sucks, you would make a kick ass soldier, unfortunately basically everyone on armor games is a tall, pasty, white guy. Who, might i add, does not have "Mad Skillz."

its not bad it just means you are nerve dead...

unfortunately basically everyone on armor games is a tall, pasty, white guy. Who, might i add, does not have "Mad Skillz."

due to the lodging of a bullet in his brain cutting off his "touch" sensors

for the masochists it is good to feel pain but generally it is not. if you cut your self and you didnt know you could bleed out and die.

yeah it is cause feeling pain is how you know you are alive? if not for pain, how the hell are we supposed to know that and dont say, hot blood, heart beat or smart answer like those