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The Misunderstood Nature of Pain with Haider Warraich

Inquiring Minds

CHAPTER

Anesthesia Isn't Psychogenic

i think whenever someone is in pain, like i was, and like so many others are, i think they dread hearing this phrase so much because it instantly erases their personhood. And yet, the researchs is very, very clear that,. especially more so for chronic pain than acute pain, that the mind plays a huge role in how we experience suffering, how we suffer, how we feel. I mean, most of the terpes that we give even now, for pain do ont don't actll work on your body. Like if some one gets an opiot, for example, and they have severe back pain, its atlly not working on their backs. It's

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