What does pain always require?

November 14, N Corwall

“Pain is essentially subjective: there is no pain unless there is someone, a subject of experience, who is experiencing the pain.”

~ Kiverstein et al., (2022)

Pain always requires a person.

You cannot reduce it to anything less.

Pain is not in the brain.

It is not a nerve, a signal, a receptor, a network in the brain, a process.

The person feels their pain by dint of their body, their mind, their brain, their world, together.

And it is there for a reason.

Pain is a message. Information.

There are needs to be met.

Clarifying those needs is part of the work, meeting them is the rest.

This often requires caring conversations and a guide.

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