According to the International Organization for Pain Studies, pain; It is defined as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that accompanies or can be defined by existing or potential tissue damage"
and "a kind of protection mechanism". Pain is a signal. The first period
is like a warning signal, and this signal can be both psychological and physiological. It can cause psychological
pain. For example, a headache may not have the same effect and pain for everyone.
While it may be unbearable for someone with a low pain threshold, it may be considered an insignificant experience for someone with a high pain threshold. Headache can be observed frequently after intense thought
activities, obsessive and past intense thought activities. Many factors (gender, religion, language, race, sociocultural environment…) can influence the concept of pain
because these differences have a very
impact on the way we define and cope with pain. In the past, pain, which was considered only as a symptom of various diseases, and especially chronic pain, is now accepted as a syndrome on its own.
The feature that distinguishes chronic pain from others is that it is defined as "pain that continues despite treatment". . Among the main factors that strengthen chronic pain; There are developmental processes,
life history before the pain, and the main traumas that trigger the pain. If we
to open this point further, when we look at the psychodevelopmental and familial histories of chronic pain patients,
history of aggression, suffering and pain, history of physical and verbal abuse, alcoholic father,
persecuting parent, only when sick We see that there is more love and attention.
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