This is the usual sissy wimp ideology used to support the reality of psychology 'pain' and thus the treatment industry. In reality there is an enormous difference in real physical pain and illusory psychological pain. The difference is that physical pain is caused by an actual physical occurrence whereas almost all so called psychological pain is entirely due to wrong thought which can be instantly gotten rid of by changing the way one thinks about things.
It has been understood since ancient times that suffering (psychological pain) is due to desires and attachments and by releasing those desires and attachments that cause suffering the suffering vanishes. The suffering from losing love vanishes instantly with letting go of the attachment to the love object. Not so with physical pain. A bullet wound remains a real bullet wound no matter what one believes. Edgar On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:20 AM, Robert Karl Stonjek wrote: > > > Study illuminates the 'pain' of social rejection > > March 28th, 2011 in Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry > > Physical pain and intense feelings of social rejection "hurt" in the same > way, a new study shows. > > The study demonstrates that the same regions of the brain that become active > in response to painful sensory experiences are activated during intense > experiences of social rejection. > > "These results give new meaning to the idea that social rejection 'hurts'," > said University of Michigan social psychologist Ethan Kross, lead author of > the article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. > "On the surface, spilling a hot cup of coffee on yourself and thinking about > how rejected you feel when you look at the picture of a person that you > recently experienced an unwanted break-up with may seem to elicit very > different types of pain. > > "But this research shows that they may be even more similar than initially > thought." > > Kross, an assistant professor at the U-M Department of Psychology and faculty > associate at the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR), conducted the study > with U-M colleague Marc Berman, Columbia University's Walter Mischel and > Edward Smith, also affiliated with the New York State Psychiatric Institute, > and with Tor Wager of the University of Colorado, Boulder. > > While earlier research has shown that the same brain regions support the > emotionally distressing feelings that accompany the experience of both > physical pain and social rejection, the current study is the first known to > establish that there is neural overlap between both of these experiences in > brain regions that become active when people experience painful sensations in > their body. > > These regions are the secondary somatosensory cortex and the dorsal posterior > insula. > > For the study, the researchers recruited 40 people who experienced an > unwanted romantic break-up within the past six months, and who indicated that > thinking about their break-up experience led them to feel intensely rejected. > Each participant completed two tasks in the study---one related to their > feelings of rejection and the other to sensations of physical pain. > > During the rejection task, participants viewed either a photo of their > ex-partner and thought about how they felt during their break-up experience > or they viewed a photo of a friend and thought about a recent positive > experience they had with that person. During the physical pain task, a > thermal stimulation device was attached to participants left forearm. On some > trials the probe delivered a painful but tolerable stimulation akin to > holding a very hot cup of coffee. On other trials it delivered non-painful, > warm stimulation. > > Participants performed all tasks while undergoing functional Magnetic > Resonance Imaging (fMRI) scans. The researchers conducted a series of > analyses of the fMRI scans, focusing on the whole brain and on various > regions of interest identified in earlier studies of physical pain. They also > compared the study's results to a database of more than 500 previous fMRI > studies of brain responses to physical pain, emotion, working memory, > attention switching, long-term memory and interference resolution. > > "We found that powerfully inducing feelings of social rejection activate > regions of the brain that are involved in physical pain sensation, which are > rarely activated in neuroimaging studies of emotion," Kross said. "These > findings are consistent with the idea that the experience of social > rejection, or social loss more generally, may represent a distinct emotional > experience that is uniquely associated with physical pain." > > The team that performed the research hopes that the findings will offer new > insight into how the experience of intense social loss may lead to various > physical pain symptoms and disorders. And they point out that the findings > affirm the wisdom of cultures around the world that use the same > language---words like "hurt" and "pain"---to describe the experience of both > physical pain and social rejection. > > Provided by University of Michigan > > > "Study illuminates the 'pain' of social rejection." March 28th, 2011. > http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-illuminates-pain-social.html > > Comment: > Depending on cultural background, people experiencing emotional pain may > cause actual pain to themselves eg slapping the face, knocking the head > against a hard surface, pulling the hair and so on. It is also noteworthy > that cries of anguish (emotional pain) are very similar to cries from actual > pain. > > Posted by > Robert Karl Stonjek > > >
