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How can different people be subjected to the exact same painful stimulus and yet experience the pain so differently?
Is there inherent value in real experiences, whether pleasurable or painful?
Black and Latino patients are twice as likely to receive no pain medication as whites for the same painful long bone fractures because of stereotypes that black and brown people feel less pain, exaggerate their pain, and are predisposed to drug addiction.
Stress neurotransmitters in the brain are much less active during the REM stage of sleep, even during dreams of traumatic experiences, leading some researchers to theorize that one purpose of dreaming is to take the edge off painful experiences to allow for psychological healing.
Then, both were squeezed in painful clamps.
The resulting internal conflict, known as cognitive dissonance, keeps you trapped, as each compromise makes it more painful to admit you've been deceived.
Scientists are still investigating potential triggers for the three types of primary headaches: recurring, long-lasting migraines; intensely painful, rapid-fire cluster headaches; and, most common of all, the tension headache.
Now, this is a very existentially painful moment for any organization, because it means as government continues to operate as it's programmed to do, failure is nearly inevitable.
He was astonished to know that girls get painful cramps and we bleed every month.
And the ability of the tumor to grow into those organs is the reason why pancreatic cancer is one of the most painful tumor types.
But one thing sets the phantoms that appear after amputation apart from their flesh and blood predecessors: the vast majority of them are painful.
When I first saw him, he was going through painful physiotherapy to recover from his fresh wounds.
It was humbling and painful and exactly where I wanted to be.
In the face of relentless competition, it may well be that you will have to take the painful decision to downsize the organization, just as you may have to lose some weight in order to run a marathon.
Veterans will always remember their traumatic experiences, but with enough practice, those memories are no longer as raw or as painful as they once were.
Sigmund Freud developed a theory that the unconscious mind could produce physical symptoms when dealing with memories or emotions too painful for the conscious mind to handle.
We have to be willing to bear witness, to bear witness to the often painful realities that we would just rather not confront, the everyday violence and humiliation that many black women have had to face, black women across color, age, gender expression, sexuality and ability.
MB: That's beautiful, thank you. (Applause) So you all are doing work that forces you to face some brutal, painful realities on a daily basis.
Their message was about staying open, even when things are painful.
I never forgot that message, and now, when difficult or painful things happen to me in my life or my work, of course at first I resist them, but then I remember what I learned from the mothers: stay open.
Two: when things get difficult or painful, try to stay open.
Open to what's scary and painful.
Our biology tells us that love is good by activating these reward circuits in our brain, and it tells us that love is painful when, after a fight or a breakup, that neurochemical reward is withdrawn.
Love is powerful and at times painful, and we express this in our words and stories, but then our words and stories prime us to expect love to be powerful and painful.
But not only is it painful, it kills lots of babies, it kills lots of mothers, and it's very expensive to produce.
What I also knew was that I was about to go on vacation for two weeks, and as bad as reading bad scripts is when it is your job, it's even more painful on vacation.
It was physically painful.
And we get angry at social networks because being angry with ourselves is more painful and more true.
Grooming shows us this in the most painful way: by involving our kids.
There are real and sometimes very painful consequences of speaking up.
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