Definition Essay About Pain

Pain. It is crucial to our way of life, yet we have a hard time comprehending it. To understand what pain is, it first has to be defined but a definition for pain is hard to achieve due to it’s malleable and personal nature. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage”. Although many people think that pain from a psychological source is, “not real”, if someone regards an experience as painful, and they report it in the same ways as physical pain, it should be accepted as “real pain”.
There are a few main types of pain; physical, psychological, and psychogenic pain. Physical pain is a sensorial discomfort associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Physical pain is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage,” according to The International Association for the Study of Pain.
On the other hand, psychological, or mental, pain is an unpleasant feeling of a psychological, non-physical, origin. Psychological pain is often times referred to as social, spiritual, emotional, or mental pain, and is thought to be an inevitable feature of the human race. Edwin S. Shneidman, a pioneer in the field of suicidology, describes psychological pain as "how much you hurt as a …show more content…
Merskey H. and Spear F.G. defined psychogenic pain as "pain which is independent of peripheral stimulation or of damage to the nervous system and due to emotional factors, or else, pain in which any peripheral change (i.e. muscle tension) is a consequence of emotional factors." The most common types of psychogenic pain are back pain, stomach pain, and headaches, which are usually induced by grief, lovesickness, social rejection, a broken heart, or other such emotional