Posted by llrrrpp on September 10, 2006, at 17:56:09
In reply to Re: Well, maybe I misinterpreted... » Racer, posted by finelinebob on September 10, 2006, at 15:35:04
> Besides, I'm pretty thick-skinned (and you know what they say about beauty... ;^)
That it can be enhanced by a mayonaisse facial?
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I guess sometimes pain feels so unique and so lonely because we cannot remember it in an experiential way. We can only remember that we "had" pain, not what the actual experience was.
Seeing someone is pain though, is often much more real than remembering my own pain, somehow. I think that this is why I'm triggered in certain circumstances.
There's a nice line of brain imaging research that suggests that psychological pain (i.e. the agony of ostracism, shame or depression) may activate similar networks observed in physical pain (thermal nociception).
I always get cracked up when I see an ad for my anti-depressant on TV. Cymbalta. I even know the music by now. "Depression hurts. ...because cymbalta works on not just serotonin (the green animation running up the back of the cartoon woman) but also norepinephrine (the blue animation running up the back of the cartoon woman), cymbalta treats the physical pain associated with depression." Whata bunch of hooey. // cut to the scene of bright colors and puppy dogs running in a field of daisies. It's all going to better now, right?
Back to killing the fruitflies.
drosophila kebabs, anyone?
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