More Retriggered Pain Memories lead to Chronic Problems.
- From: TomHendricks474@xxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 23:09:39 -0400 (EDT)
Last post I suggested that when unexpressed physical pain memories
in childhood (mostly from the age of 5-10) are triggered,
the body feels the pain again, even though the physical problem
is no longer there. And that this unexpressed pain can lead
to chronic pain and continued health problems until it is
consciously expressed and resolved.
There is some support for such a hypothesis:
1. Phantom limbs. It would help explain phantom limbs - the ability to have
feelings
when the leg or arm has been lost.
2. Phantom pain. It would help explain phantom pain in limbs that have been
lost.
3. Placebo effect. It would help explain the placebo effect. The
suggested effect of the placebo is re-triggering a pain (or pleasure) memory
from the past.
4. The body has a Two Part Pain Process.
The body has a physical two part pain process in response to any
injury. The first is a sharp pain. Later comes a dull burning pain.
I would suggest that the later dull burning pain, would be similar
to the expression or retriggering of the initial or first pain memory.
Thus we already know that the body has a two part pain system.
I only add that the unexpressed pain episode - when triggered
at a later time - leads to the 2nd
dull burning pain, over and over again.
5.Hyperalgesia. That's the enhanced sensitivity and responsivity
to stimulation of the area around damaged tissue. I suggest that
if the first pain is not expressed, then whenever the pain
memory is triggered, this enhance tissue sensitivity is set off.
Thus there is chronic pain whenever this unexpressed first pain
memory is triggered
6. Just as there is a critical period for any child to accurately
learn a language from 3-7, I suggest there is a development period for
learning how to express first physical pain, and release it
permanently. I suggest the period from 5-10 years of age.
Before that time there is little memory abiltiy.
But until that ability to express pain is fully developed, there
may be unexpressed pain that when that pain memory is later
retriggered, will lead to a repeat of that first pain,
and a body response to that earlier pain
that is no longer there - which is the health problem
of overcompensation.
7. There are at least 3 types of memory. For my hypothesis
to be true, the unexpressed first pain memory must be big
enough to trigger long-term memories. That would suggest
that they were strong memories - either strongly painful
or strongly pleasurable.
None of this proves anything. But the suggestion is clear -
the body develops a method of dealing with pain. But that
during the intial period of this development phase, there
may be unresolved pain memories. These, when triggered,
lead to chronic health problems in later life.
(The science from above is from a Neuro Science Textbook)
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