on unbearable pain

unbearable pain

 

Unbearable pain is the brother of being suicidal and unbearable pain can be mental, physical, or both.

I take unbearable pain to by synonymous with agnoy or excruciating pain.

Often, unbearable physical pain can lead to or underly unbearable mental pain.

I make no distinction herein about the nature of the pain that is unbearable except in that there are types of unbearable pain that will end and those that will not.

What makes a particular pain unbearable as opposed to bearable?

This is not easily answered and the technology for pain-reduction at the time may change the situation.

Medications can make both physical and mental pain get better but, at the present state of human development in 2011, there are certainly states of the human body, at least, that qualify as unbearably painful.

Certain spinal conditions, cancers, or degenerative diseases can lead to physical states of this kind of pain.

Mentally unbearable pain is much different in that it may not have any underlying physical cause but only a kind of anguish that can be known by the person in such pain.

Perhaps losing one's whole family in a car accident is unbearable pain for one while losing one's limbs, for example, is unbearably mentally painful for another who, perhaps, derived all enjoyment in life from activities requiring his or her limbs.

Some forms of unbearable pain, such as the loss of one's children or one's spouse, seem to be of a different ilk than those of incurable cancer.

All humans, it appears, at least, should be capable of dealing with any non-physical mentally unbearable pain in time, with therapy, medication, or contemplation.

Perhaps it is our psychology that determines what is and what is not unbearable and those psychological schemes or paradigms that allow for loss and recovery are best.

However, not all cultures and individuals have subscribed to the idea that one must continue no matter the shame or loss to the self.

Some cultures or persons take honor and pride to be so important as to warrant suicide if such traits are lessened for this or that reason.

Perhaps an individual can be completely aware of the possibility for new love and a new companion but, in desperation over the loss of what he or she deems as the only ones they want to love or create, they decide that suicide is the only way to quell the agony of loss.

Not everyone subscribes to theories of psychological detachment and some see the Romeo and Juliet or Mark Antony and Cleopatra examples as romantic and just as viable as those alternatives that see such self-destruction as immature and attached.

Not everyone is a Buddhist monk and not every monk would be able to go on in every circumstance imaginable.

The alleviation of unbearable pain should be the paramount focus in any caring environment and mental pain can more easily be cured, as of this time in human history, than can physical pain- though many amazing medicines are available for both.

Opiates begin to wear off and have limits. Psychotropic medications are myriad and any combination of one or more may yield bearable pain where there was once only unbearable pain.




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