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Chronic pain sucks, I mean, the evolutionary purpose of pain is to cause you to quit doing whatever is injuring you, but chronic pain doesn't do that. Even once you have identified the problem, and done what is doable (often, not much), it just goes on and on and on and...
I have found that thinking of it as 'just pain, it doesn't MEAN anything' really helps.
Yeah, hmm. Well, I bet there are some types of chronic pain that have been around forever, like having a bad back or knee. Maybe the point of it is to make life harder, in general. That way it is also harder to reproduce, in general.
Perhaps. But I bet until the advent of true humans, about 50,000-100,000 years ago, they didn't live very long. IF you are injured, and have little in the way of tools and/or community support, something kills you, you starve, whatever.
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Sometimes, for some people. Others get broken by it. Others get mean. and so on.
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Pain is pain and it all sucks.
Chronic pain sucks, I mean, the evolutionary purpose of pain is to cause you to quit doing whatever is injuring you, but chronic pain doesn't do that. Even once you have identified the problem, and done what is doable (often, not much), it just goes on and on and on and...
I have found that thinking of it as 'just pain, it doesn't MEAN anything' really helps.
What do you think is the evolutionary purpose of chronic pain?
I don't think it has one. I think surviving things that cause chronic pain is pretty recent.
Yeah, hmm. Well, I bet there are some types of chronic pain that have been around forever, like having a bad back or knee. Maybe the point of it is to make life harder, in general. That way it is also harder to reproduce, in general.
Perhaps. But I bet until the advent of true humans, about 50,000-100,000 years ago, they didn't live very long. IF you are injured, and have little in the way of tools and/or community support, something kills you, you starve, whatever.