Friday, March 11, 2022

Why is pain so difficult to quantify/categorize?


Pain is something that should be measured individually. 

While there are pain scales that help explain the varying degrees of what a person can feel, you also need to consider that person's tolerance for said pain. 

Maybe you're talking with someone that has been dealing with this pain for most of our life, and because of that, we can become used to it. But that in no way means that we don't feel it. 

When you ask us how strong the pain is, we can answer with low numbers, because we are just that accustomed to feeling that way, but if you'd ask someone that wasn't used to that kind of stress, they'd react completely differently. 


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