Chronic Pain: A Case Study

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1) If brain surgeons could safely install and electrode in my brain for pleasure, so I could press it at any time to receive a flooded response of pleasure. I would think this would be good and bad in different perspectives. If I was in extreme chronic pain, it would affect me in a positive way. I would no longer have pain. I would be able to connect with people on a daily basis, also be able to interact with everyone on a normal basis. Instead of being in pain, and sitting on the sidelines watching everyone. I would be able to produce more work, I would be able to concentrate more on the things which would provide me to do better in what I was doing instead of concentrating on the pain, also I would be able to relate more to my family, I would …show more content…
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3) I had a dream that I was on a subway train and Johnny Depp walked on. I felt instantly attracted to him and I wanted to run to him. He was motioning for me to come to him with those sultry eyes! I tried to run into his arms but my legs would not move."
This dream would be Manifest content theory. This dream is closely connected to this theory because it has an apparent meaning of a dream, and it tells a story line of the dream.
4) I have experienced sleepwalking when I was younger. It was right after my dad had passed away when I was 10. My mom would tell me that I would talk in my sleep and also walk in my sleep. She said she couldn’t figure out what I was trying to do. I would go to the front door try to go outside say a few words, and then eventually walk back to my bed and go back to sleep. As time went on and I got older she said it eventually just disappeared and no longer do it. A good website I found was, http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sleepwalking/basics/definition/CON-20031795 they explained it well for me and gave a lot of

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