There are many abstract terms that are present in the English language that everyone uses every day. These are words that have no concrete meaning, just a meaning that people have given them over time. The meaning of these words might even change depending on the circumstance or the person who is using it. An example of an abstract term would be the word “pain.” Pain is an experience that occasionally is just an inconvenience and people could ignore it shortly after it happened, but pain is usually something that ultimately prevents someone from moving forward in their life. Pain is an experience that causes someone to feel something they don’t want to. Whenever someone is injured, they feel something is wrong with themselves. The greater …show more content…
Immediately after I broke it, I thought I just jammed it because I really didn’t feel anything at the beginning. I didn’t even notice that my bone was partly sticking out of my skin. Once I glanced down and saw my bone, the amount of discomfort I was feeling increased dramatically. I couldn’t imagine how bad my finger was feeling. It was an overwhelming sense in my mind because it was all I could think about. I felt like I was about to throw up and my finger was about to fall off. It felt like my finger was on fire and hot needles were stabbing the inside of my finger. My finger kept trying to make itself known by finding more ways to hurt me. It started throbbing after a few minutes and that made it even worse. The fire that was burning my finger heated up and cooled down at irregular intervals to make me feel even worse. Also, the needles stopped stabbing me for a few seconds, and then they stabbed me even harder. Every time I felt like it was getting better, it was really getting worse and I felt like throwing up even more. I was extremely miserable and my finger felt so bad that I felt like I was about to die any second. I was clutching my hand in an attempt to make my finger stop hurting even though I knew it was not going to help. I couldn’t stop crying because of how bad my finger being broken felt. I desperately wished it would stop hurting, but it never did. The needles continued to …show more content…
They feel like someone ripped their heart out and they could never love again. They feel empty inside because they will never again have the chance to talk to their loved one. They might even imagine that their love one will walk through the door in a few minutes and that nothing has happened because they are in denial. They might even start to feel like they are helpless because there was nothing they could do to save their loved one. They start thinking about their own mortality and the fact that there is nothing they could do to stop death. Death comes to everyone at random times. It doesn’t care if it is supposed to be the best time of your life, it will still come and take you. They might even welcome death coming to take them because they feel like their life is pointless without that person and wish they could see their loved one again. This is the same for anyone who loses someone they cared about because they regret all the time that they didn’t spend with their loved one and wish they could get it back. Even though visiting a psychic is pointless because they can’t really talk to spirits, they might visit one because they want to be reassured that their loved one is fine or just have some more time to talk with their loved
Background: Chronic pain results when there is delayed healing. Grumbine claims that chronic pain ‘produces a fear in the patient and a panicked feeling that the pain will
Each person will respond differently to the pain experience. Therefore, the individual’s attitudes, personal experiences and knowledge are also antecedents to the concept of pain. For instance, a person that has been exposed to severe pain knows the
Pain is something that several Americans suffer from on a daily basis for varying reasons.
What exactly is pain? According to Webster's dictionary, pain is "physical suffering typically from injury or illness; a distressing sensation in a part of the body; severe mental or emotional distress". Most everyone reading this paper has experienced some form of physical pain at some point during their lives; most everyone has even experienced the common daily pains such as stubbing our toe as we walk through the living room, accidentally biting our tongue as we chew, and having the afternoon headache after a long day of work. No matter the fact that it is unpleasant, pain has a very important role in telling the body that something is not right and leading to behavior that will remove the body from a source of potential injury. Imagine if we could not experience pain. We would not be able to change our behavior in any way when touching the burning hot dish in the oven, resulting in potentially serious burns. We could not recognize that perhaps we twisted an ankle when walking down the stairs, thus continued walking on that foot would exacerbate the injury to the point of not being able to walk at all. Indeed, pain is not pleasant, but in many cases it is an important way for our nervous system to learn from and react to the environment.
There is a general consensus of what physical pain is amongst society. Pain is never good. It is something that hurts and no one ever wants to actually be in pain. In infants and toddlers, pain is associated with cries, tears, and the word “ouch!” As they grow into adults, pain and all of its expressions follow and branch out with them. Its dimensions multiply and what used to hurt as toddlers, no longer does. At the same time, they begin to experience new physical pains – pains, which create such an unimaginable physical suffering. Today, pain remains as an unpleasant feeling that causes physical suffering; however, it can be seen and interpreted from many different vantage points. One perspective is the personal standpoint, where many people have trouble describing the feeling of enduring pain or the physicality of it. Another viewpoint is the neurobiological viewpoint, where neurologists have readily created three separate types of pain and explications for each.
to personify "Pain" by giving it a human quality like memory, or is in fact
Institute of Medicine Report from the Committee on Advancing Pain Research, Care and Education. (2011). Relieving Pain in America A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research. Retrieved from http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?records_13172
Pain is possibly the most unpleasant sensations our senses can detect. Even though we typically fail to remember what pain feels like when we are not experiencing it, we certainly do not wish to experience pain. Despite pain's unpleasantness, it has to be appreciated for what it is. Namely, a mechanism that allows us to avoid dangerous situations, to prevent further damage, and to promote the healing process. Pain allows us to remove ourselves form dangerous situations, as we attempt to move away from noxious stimuli that cause pain. As we attempt to escape stimuli that cause pain after an initial insult on our body, pain can prevent further damage form occurring. Finally, pain promotes the healing process as we take great care to protect an injured body part form further damage as to minimize the experience of more pain. How is this unpleasant, yet helpful sensation detected?
Aim. The purpose of this paper is to clarify and analyze the meaning of the concept of pain. The paper will clarify the defining attributes of pain and identify the antecedents that influence the perception of pain and list the consequences of pain. It will also state the empirical referents in reference to pain.
Pain and suffering is something that we all would like to never experience in life, but is something that is inevitable. “Why is there pain and suffering in the world?” is a question that haunts humanity. Mother Teresa once said that, “Suffering is a gift of God.” Nevertheless, we would all like to go without it. In the clinical setting, pain and suffering are two words that are used in conjunction. “The Wound Dresser,” by Walt Whitman and “The Nature of Suffering and Goals of Medicine,” by Eric J Cassel addresses the issue of pain and suffering in the individual, and how caregivers should care for those suffering.
At some point in life, all people experience pain. The presence of pain can prevent further damage to an injured area or even prevent an injury from occurring, but pain that continues, after treatment or even after healing, can be debilitating (Loeser and Melzack, 1999).
However, while everyone experiences pain, no two people experience pain alike. Other factors influence a person’s perception of pain. Outside influence is often a consideration when a parent or family members are overly concerned they can instigate a response to pain. A post operative patient i...
In a pain assessment, the pain is always subjective, in a verbal patient; pain is what the patient says that it is. Nurses must be able to recognize non verbal signs of pain such as elevated pulse, elevated blood pressure, grimacing, rocking, guarding, all of which are signs of pain (Jensen, 2011). A patient’s ethnicity may have a major influence on their meaning of pain and how it is evaluated and responded to behaviorally as well as emotionally (Campbell, & Edwards 2012). A patient may not feel that their pain is acceptable and they do not want to show that they are in pain. For some people, showing pain indicates that they are weak. Other patients will hide their pain as they do not want to be seen as a bother or be seen as a difficult patient.
Pain, a word that is always associated with getting hurt. The real question now is how it hurt. In life people experience many types of pain. There are two different kinds of pain; physical and mental. The physical part of pain is like falling from something, cutting your arm, or stubbing your toe. The mental part of pain is like hurting someone’s feeling from saying something harsh or doing something to them emotionally, which hurts inside. The causes and effects of physical and mental pain are very different but can be both equally devastating and even more dramatic with emotionally disturbed people.
People can wear pain on the outside like a mask, hiding them from the world, but it also can hide deep within them waiting to be freed by some emotional circumstance. Oddly enough, pain is one on the most feared apprehensions in the mind of humans, yet in some situations, is the most rejoiced. In this paper I will take a close look at pain, from it's true meaning to real life occurrences in which pain is a reality.We all know what pain feels like, for everyone has experienced it at one time in their lives. There are two dimensions of pain; the physical and the emotional pain. Physical pain is a sensation of pure discomfort. For example, when you are walking through your house and stump your toe on a table leg, you don't just stand there and say, "That hurt." You yell loudly to the world (either nice or naughty) that you stumped your toe.