I read in a medical book about the nerves, and the emotional well being of humans. many people look at us and call us wimps or a cry baby because of the pain that we feel. My older sister was always calling me that, and at school I was sometimes called a cry baby.
When my cyst in my shoulder was cut open I was put under a local and I felt the knife cutting through it, it was a weird feeling. At the dentist when they drilled in a tooth I felt it even under local. In fact I would just bear the pain like I have always done at the dentist, but the dentist I think suspected it, and he told me that if I felt “anything” to tell him. So while drilling one day I held up my hand told him know that I was in great pain. H gave me the strongest local that was legal to give me. A females dentist said that I had the local that I had was strong enough to knock out a donkey.
The author of the book pointed out that if one felt intense pain then one would feel all the muscle aches far more than other people, and that was when it occurred to me that over my whole lifetime when people judged me as a cry baby, that they didn’t feel the intense pain that I did. They were judging me by the weaker pain that they felt. In other words they have no idea that due to my feeling pain far more sharper than them that I was able to feel small pain as more intense pain. And what was intense pain to them was total and complete agony to me.
Just as toothache drives me crazy with pain, and migraines, back ache, and muscles being pulled etc, being highly sensitive made me more able to enjoy the physical feelings of pleasure.
Another would be eating senses, and how tastes to me would be far stronger to other people because their physical sense are not as intense as mine.
I feel muscle aches all the time. The author said that he did too. he said about how he hurt but ignored it, and eventually the aches went away, and that is exactly what I have trained myself to do. It is only pain, and even though it is strong and sometimes intense it is also life. So I try to never let it bother me, or let it stop me from enjoying life as much as I can.
Back pain is very intense and hurts a lot, so that is another thing that is near crippling to me and yet I can in general still function, I always wondered about that.
For us people who feel more pain, we also feel more pleasure. So there is a good side and an agonizing side to all of this. But I have ever had a doctor ever explain this to me and I doubt that it has ever occurred to many.
But do be aware that before you judge someone, that they may be feeling that pain and agony far stronger than you have ever felt and that means that they can react to that pain far more acutely and to you they can look like a big cry baby, but the reality is that this person is half dying from the pain that is racking their body, or at least it feels that way to that person who is far more sensitive to what most people call normal pain.
All the best from James M Sandbrook.
Sunday, 3 May 2015, 11:08:28 AM.