Poll Do You Have A Lower Tolerance For Pain Since Your Trauma?

[Ghost427]

Very high pain tolerance. A friend of mine jokes that she could cut off my arm and I'd stick it back in place and finish whatever I was doing.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I cannot stand pain at all. I used to as a child. But not anymore.

 

[Spiderallis]

I think I've developed a taste for it, but there's a big difference between 'good pain' and 'bad pain'. I shouldn't say more, I'm trying to be polite.:devilish:;)

 

[Malia]

I also experience this! I also had surgeries in the past that I could handle well. I've been to the ER for painful health problems so many times I've lost count! Lately though, everything seems to affect me more. I just broke my finger today and cried like a baby. I never would have done that before! It's so weird! I also cannot tolerate my fibromyalgia pain at all either, and migraines are unbearable. I'm hoping it's just temporary...?

 

[Ice_Fire]

As others have said, my tolerance for physical pain is pretty high. I have trouble with my knee, it kinda slides in and out of place but I just crack it back no problem. Emotional pain though is another story, really hurts, almost to a point where it becomes physical. I don't get it. :confused:

 

[jenny72]

I used to be very brave about everything in my life, now I've become afraid of everything it seems. A big whimp!:eek:To the point of fainting when getting blood drawn or anything of the like...dentists too. I don't think my pain tolerance is lower though,in fact I think I can tolerate a whole lot. I suffer with pain and charlie horses from my upper back muscles and neck everyday and still go to work and care for 4 guys in wheelchairs fulltime.

 

[Red Feather]

I think I can tolerate pain higher. I think learning to live with pain is what most people who go through abuse have to do. But I agree emotional pain or stress is much less tolerable. I have noticed how much less I am tolerable to stressful situations. I can not tolerate any forcefullness on my spirit. I am allergic to that.

 

[Anna]

I am kind of scaring myself. Lately I don't feel much at all. I register pain and all that, but I don't flinch if someone presses something cold against my arm for example..... Can this maybe be connected with emotional numbing? I mean if it is this is really annoying me. Feeling nothing psychologically and now physical numbing too???

 

[Red Feather]

I think it is possible to dissociate physical pain, so yes I think it is the same mechanism involved. I also don't think it is a bad thing. Professional athletes probably do it all the time.

 

[Let It Be]

For me, I learned at a young age, just to ignore my physical as well as emotional pain. Fast forward, and I'm working and although the emotional stress would be at an all-time high, I would just take it, because I believed I had to, in order to get that paycheck to survive.

The funny thing about it is that when the emotional pain became too high, then something physically would happen to me, like my wake-up call, where I could no longer ignore it, like having to have surgery, etc.

I made a promise that I would quit my job while I was in ER about 4 years ago waiting to hear if I was going to have to have surgery on my foot. I had just been told that I had broken a bone in my foot. I thought I had just sprained it. I kept that promise and gave my notice because I knew that I could no longer handle working where I was.

 

[healing_now]

If I get hurt, I don't really notice it as much or its not as important, but I can't stand the feeling of another person's touch. I used to love hugs now I can't stand them, but when it comes to pets and toddlers I actually come out of my shell and feel the most normal. I think it's because I know they are safe and aren't going to hurt me, except big dogs (they still scare me if they are mean looking). Too many adults messed with me and I don't trust the majority of them sadly enough.

 

[Lina]

Physically, I have a far higher tolerance of pain now.