Psychogenic pain

become a nurse and continue helping people through many different life problems. I feel I have become more conscientious to responding to people in pain because of my various traumatic childhood experiences. When people are in need I find myself coming to their side to help and assist them with whatever is affecting them. I can relate to others pain because I too have gone through many painful endeavours in life. I was born with a severe case of club feet. It is an ankle deformity that in…

After treatment options have been exhausted, there are not many options left for the terminally ill. Terminally ill may either receive aggressive treatment, palliative care, or pain control. However, there is no way of knowing how a terminally ill patient’s last days will be. Consequently, many terminally ill people suffer pain and agony. Every patient’s experience with a terminally illness is different. There is no case that is the same, which can make this a complicated…

tells the monster he is not but does not mention what exactly scares, that shows his conflict. The monster then warns saying, "You will be, before the end" (Ness 16). This quote hints Conor's pain of fear in the future. Conor does not seem able to handle his fear with anyone else and it causes him much pain inside. So when someone finally starts to bring him to his senses saying things as, "Son, stories don't always have happy endings" (Ness 144-145), it drives him insane. It gets him so…

Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) evaluates hospitals on their compliance of pain control of patients, in particular the emergency department. Many hospitals that I have worked at feel that they have to give the patient what they want for pain or will face the consequences of retribution from JCAHO. Patients are very aware of this standard that has been set so if they do not feel their pain was treated appropriately they threaten to call JCAHO to report noncompliance. This is…

The agony, the suffering, the painful knowledge of knowing you are going to die with excruciating pain, with no say in what happens to them, as you just watch your time run out. Assisted suicide grants someone the choice of a life or death decision in a more ethical way. Assisted suicide and suicide are two different things. Suicide is where an individual takes his/her life in a manner that is referred to as being inhumane such as hanging or a gunshot. Assisted suicide is where a professional…

Pain Medication Drug Abuse Americans are obsessed with popping pills. Our culture believes that a pill will cure anything from the common cold to cancer. Big pharmaceuticals have spent billions of dollars developing and marketing drugs to the young and old. While drugs are beneficial in many ways, there are some major disadvantages to being a society so heavily dependent on drugs. One of those disadvantages is unintentional drug abuse. Many times a doctor will prescribe a drug for pain and…

The Giver 's memoir shows how the community members just aimlessly follow the rules set down for it by the community establishers. Through Jonas 's experiences, The Giver makes the plea that it is only by facing pain, loneliness, and other trials that a person can grow and develop braveness. The decision between the twins based on size is totally sensible and hard-headed: the large twin is more likely to prosper, so the smaller twin will be free. Identical twins…

Medical Marijuana: A Better Option to Pain Treatment over Prescription Opioid Narcotics Medical marijuana is a much healthier alternative to narcotics in most cases for the use of treatment of pain for epilepsy, nausea relief, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, and cancer. Two of the main cannabinoids in medical marijuana are: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidoil (CBD). CBD is the compound that has significant medical benefits and the fact that CBD-rich cannabis…

In Michael Pollan’s “An Animal’s Place” Pollan provides an argument on whether or not Americans should consume animals, and specifically, if the fashion in which animals are farmed and slaughtered respects their capacity to suffer. Pollan illustrates his personal dilemma particularly when he ironically points his debate on whether or not to eat meat began while he was dining at a steakhouse. To develop his argument, Pollan initially exclusively uses the citation of animal rights activists, but…

conditioning, 3) sham mindfulness-meditation, or 4) book-listening control intervention. Psychophysical assessments of pain were used to examine the efficacy of each treatment, showing that while mindfulness-meditation, placebo, and sham mindfulness-meditation all significantly alleviated pain perception (when compared to the control condition), mindfulness mediation reduced pain ratings more than both placebo and sham mindfulness-meditation. In what could be seen as the most compelling evidence…