Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts.
This has left.
But most of the time, the way we treat Pain is superficial - we seek out states of perfect painlessness by avoiding it at all costs, or suppressing it, usually with drugs.
But how would you describe it? By the number of broken bones or stitches? By the cause - the crowning baby, the sharp knife, the straying lover? What does a 7 on a Pain scale of 1 to 10 really mean? Pain is complicated.
Pain seems like a fairly straightforward experience - you get hurt and it, well, hurts