The Hierarchy of Pain

The hierarchy of pain is interesting. And I didn't realize it existed until I became a therapist. What we do with our emotional pain is it's sort of like the difference between if you are having chest pain, you'll probably go to the cardiologist before you have a massive heart attack and say, what is this chest pain about? It's not that bad compared to whatever in their mind they compare it to. They end up in my office when they're having the equivalent of an emotional heart attack.