The way your brain processes an injury is part of the injury system. It's good when you're acutely injured to pay attention to how hurt you are, but at the same time it can set in motion a process whereby the brain becomes an amplifier. I do think actually that there is an evolutionary advantage to the capacity we have to modulate our reactions even to physical stress and pain.

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