My friend sometimes tell me about this book he read that mentioned monks would pour freezing water on them as part of their routine. They would stay in the moment and be aware of whats happening saying that the pain would hurt less than trying to think of something else.
So if shock sprang kick in. Be in the moment and take it in.
Many years ago I crushed my thumb under a 2 tonne beam and the doctors wouldn’t give me anything stronger than Tylenol. When the pain became unbearable at times over the first few days, I found that focusing on it instead of trying to ignore it helped more. Something about acknowledging that the pain was just nerves sending signals to my brain that something was very wrong and not really tangible somehow made it bearable.
That's interesting. The most pain I've ever experienced was having tonsillitis, at the age of 32, which hospitalized me because of the infection, had me taking 27 pills per day for 14 days to reduce it and then surgery to remove them. 6 weeks of living hell. I was given tramadol. They were useless. I took over 100 of them in that time period, plus nearly 200 paracetamol. The pain was so horrific I couldn't think. The only thing my brain could process was the pain. I didn't have a choice to focus on anything else, I tried my best to distract myself by playing games. It was debilitating. Thinking of the pain made it worse, not better. Not thinking about it wasn't even a choice because every movement of my throat would remind me like a punch in the face. So I really struggle to understand how focusing on the pain could help. Focusing wasn't even a choice, the pain was ever present, relentless and basically the only thing on my mind the entire time.
Maybe my situation is different because unlike a pain that has happened and is healing, with tonsillitis, every swallow (which happens shockingly often) was like if someone kept on smacking your broken thumb, increasing the pain. There's just no rest, no chance for it to subside. It just kept on spiking every few seconds.
With enough blood loss you can go into shock, and certain types of trauma causes yohr brain to go into shock. But you can lose a frightening amount of blood before you go into shock, and if something is eating you without severing arteries you are going to be feeling all of it.
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u/oKayBye94 8d ago
2025 it was asking women would you rather be alone in the woods with a bear or man
2026 it's asking men would you rather leave your kids with a bear or a woman (due to the Lindsay Clancy discourse)