In the video, the presenters share various natural ways and remedies for pain relief. Pain can be resolved in various ways other than just taking medication. It is presented by Uchee Pines Institute officials.
00:01 Hello! I’m Dr. Agatha Thrash from Uchee Pines Institute
00:06 and we’re going to talk about pain during the next
00:09 half an hour, we hope you will join us.
00:31 Welcome to Help Yourself To Health
00:33 with Dr. Agatha Thrash of Uchee Pines Institute
00:37 and now here is your host Dr. Thrash.
00:40 At Uchee Pines Institute we deal with pain in a lot of ways
00:47 we deal with a number of different kinds of pain.
00:51 Pain can usually be categorized in two ways: We can talk about
00:57 chronic pain or we can talk about acute pain.
01:01 Acute pain is usually treated in a different way than
01:05 chronic pain, and this is Don Miller who will be talking
01:09 with me today in helping you to understand how we treat pain
01:13 at Uchee Pines Institute.
01:15 Don! – Well Dr. Thrash there are
01:18 various ways that we treat pain and one of the first things
01:21 is what we do within our own minds to make pain worse,
01:25 we call these things pain intensifiers,
01:27 It’s basically our reaction to the pain perception.
01:32 The first and probably the greatest thing that intensifies
01:36 our pain is fear, fear does a number of things to the body
01:40 physiologically, fear does a number of things to the body
01:42 mentally.
01:43 Physiologically we tense up our muscles become more rigid,
01:48 you remember back in the days where you used to get
01:51 hypodermic needles shoved into your muscles,
01:53 they would say relax, yeah, really right, relax,
01:56 they have this great big long needle, they are going to ram it
01:58 into your muscle and they tell you to relax,
01:59 well normally you don’t and you are all stiff,
02:01 they run this needle into your muscle, and that stiff muscle
02:06 hurts more than it would have or could have relaxed
02:09 in the first place.
02:10 But it is also the fear of the unknown, when we get a pain
02:13 we wake up in the morning and we’ve got a pain
02:16 and we self diagnose ourselves, hummm, what could this pain be,
02:20 and we start coming up with all types of horror stories,
02:23 we read an article yesterday, we heard a news broadcast
02:26 about this pain and this great disease caused by it
02:30 and pretty soon we are thinking that we have that disease
02:33 and the pain becomes much greater.
02:36 Then we go to a physician, he diagnoses our pain as being
02:40 we slept wrong and all of a sudden the pain is not
02:42 quite as bad anymore.
02:43 Because our pain is somewhat palliated by the fact that
02:47 our fear has been assuaged, it’s a nice way to take care of
02:50 the fear and the pain.
02:52 Another thing that intensifies our pain is guilt,
02:55 these are for people who basically pain prone,
03:00 they are guilty, “oh I shouldn’t have done that,”
03:03 “if only I hadn’t done that,” if I hadn’t eaten that,
03:06 if I hadn’t done that, if I hadn’t done this thing over here
03:09 I wouldn’t have this pain right now, and so this guilt complex
03:12 seems to make the pain much much greater.
03:16 There is also the thing called anger, now we are talking
03:19 again about how the mind is reacting to the pain perception.
03:24 The pain is the same but now we are angry at somebody
03:29 or something, we are angry at the accident, why did that
03:33 happen to me, and often when we start asking those questions
03:36 we become angry at the very one who can take care of
03:39 our problems, that’s anger against God.
03:42 So we are angry against God, or we are angry against our
03:45 spouse, or we are angry against our employer, or we are angry
03:49 against ourselves for doing that stupid thing,
03:51 falling down the stairs, tripping over whatever,
03:53 and we get angry and all of these things along the lines
03:57 are making our pain much much greater.
04:00 Really a great pain intensifier is a thing called loneliness,
04:06 people who are alone suffer more pain, we’ll talk about
04:11 that a little bit more when I talk about things to assuage
04:13 and take away the pain, but people who are lonely
04:16 seem to have a greater preception of pain.
04:19 We find that those people who are alone suffer more premature
04:25 deaths, matter of fact, double the national average than those
04:29 who are not alone, divorced people are five times more
04:32 likely to commit suicide and die in fatal accidents
04:36 four times more if they are alone, these are sad
04:39 circumstances for a person.
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