I don't feel pain... it's weird... I feel people punch me in the shoulders, trying to get me to say 'ow'. Pressure points don't work either... Open flames burn me and hot por
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.
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".
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.
which reminds me, have any of you seen the James Bond movie where the villain could not feel pain, due to the lodging of a bullet in his brain cutting off his "touch" sensors. I would have to say, I was thinking about that when I saw this topic. I do not know if this will be possible though.
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."
unfortunately basically everyone on armor games is a tall, pasty, white guy. Who, might i add, does not have "Mad Skillz."
wtf???
due to the lodging of a bullet in his brain cutting off his "touch" sensors
A little bit on the farfetched side, but in theory, well let's see. The majority of nociception nerve fibres run through the anterolateral tract meaning that they do have a specific pathway. The problems are:
1) The anterolateral tract also carries temperature fibres so if there's a pain deficit this is likely to be deficient as well.
2) These tracts run bilaterally, so you'd have to either take both out or take out the thalamus, to which they travel before projecting through the cortex (if I recall correctly).
3) Also, getting shot anywhere around the thalamus or the brainstem or the spine for that matter isn't going to just take out the anterolateral tract, it'll probably take out anything else from your light touch, vibration and proprioception (you won't have a clue what your body position is by feel), or your other cranial nerve nuclei or even your centers for swallowing or breathing...
I'm just going to go with "the chances of that happening are virtually nil"!
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
