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Brain signals (slrpnk.net)
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Lies. I get an itchy brain all the time.

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[–] 145 points 4 weeks ago (18 children)

So how does it work? If it's painful but it doesn't hurt, then it's, by definition, not painful. "It's excruciating but you can't actually even feel it" doesn't really make sense to me. My bullshit-o-meter is not happy with that.

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  • [–] 27 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

    I've heard that orgasms are painful, but the endorphins and oxytocin fix that.

    I've never actually looked into the validity of it, but it sounds like BS.

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  • [–] 52 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    I actually think this might be true. I'm dealing with treatment resistant depression and am on fairly heavy antidepressants. These stop me from feeling much of anything, good or bad. Even orgasms don't really give me any pleasure at all.

    When I orgasm, it is actually very painful. I've gone to a urologist and have had scans, etc done, and there's nothing wrong physically with anything down there. Until I saw your post I never really thought about it in this way, but I can definitely see how a lack of endorphins and oxytocin - or really, any feel good chemicals - floating around, how an intense muscle contraction could be quite painful. It's like a sharp pain, probably similar to a quick, extreme flex of muscles that at the same time need to relax to pass things through.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    I also had that issue on SSRIs. More frequent orgasms helped me. Just make sure you’re achieving them in gentle and sustainable ways with vibration/suction/lubrication instead of vigorous rubbing.

    Also don’t take medical advice from strangers on the internet or something lol.

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  • [–] 23 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

    Ok so there are drugs called "analgesics" that make pain go away, and there are other drugs called "anaesthetics" that turn off your perception of pain, and there other drugs called "dissociatives" that straight up disconnect your perceptions from your body.

    I had major surgery and was in the hospital, for rapid pain relief they gave me something called "Dilaudid". I said I had pain level 6 or 7, they gave me some D, came back after a bit and said "what's the pain at?" I said "6 or 7", they got concerned and I said "oh don't worry I don't care any more".

    When they gave me oxy, the pain level actually went down.

    I don't encourage spending a week in the hospital purely for research purposes, but it was very educational to have had that experience.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 weeks ago* (4 children)

    It’s not even remotely true and easily disproven.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

    Easily disprove my lived experience then.

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  • [+] -8 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

    So, there’s this thing called science. And it pretty much dictates all of what we know about everything.

    And this thing called science states that there is zero evidence (outside of Facebook memes) that in a NORMAL functioning human body, is digestion a painful experience. Now if you have a CONDITION- that causes digestion issues such as IBS, or GASTROENTERITIS, you may have trouble digesting food and pain can result.

    But in a NORMAL FUNCTIONING HUMAN BEING-

    This won’t be the case.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Feels like this one is for philosophy. If your body is in pain and you take anesthesia, is it no longer in pain, or simply your brain doesn't get the signals, but technically still in pain? Feels like there was something interesting about coma patients and pain. You can see the pain using some scanner (MRI?), but not feel it. How would you define that?

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