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47. True - but you can remember the shock and disruption that physical pain causes

Thu Feb 18, 2016, 11:08 PM

Feb 2016

I've been injured a lot of times and gone through excruciating pain, sometimes for long periods of time. The experts are right - you cannot recall the actual pain.

But I can remember going into shock, remember the nausea the pain caused, and the way it prevented or interfered with attempts to do basic everyday tasks. I think those memories are as horrific as the actual pain was.

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