http://paperpins.multiply.com/journal/item/523/Pain_Perception
Napag-alaman ko noon sa CyberPsychology class ko na pareho daw ang mga prumoproseso ng pisikal at emosyonal na sakit:
Naomi Eisenberger at UCLA has shown which parts of the brain are active when we feel emotional pain.
She devised an intriguing computer game in which participants were deliberately made to feel left out.
Simultaneous brain scanning revealed that the pain of being socially rejected was processed in much the same way in the brain as physical pain and in the same area, the anterior cingulate cortex.
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But sometimes physical pain can become chronic, long outlasting its original purpose, and emotional pain is the same.
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Malaki din ang papel ng alaala:
One of the authors, Dr Kip Williams from Purdue, said: “While both types of pain can hurt very much at the time they occur, social pain has the unique ability to come back over and over again, whereas physical pain lingers only as an awareness that it was indeed at one time painful.
“Why aren’t we always suffering pain by recollections of social betrayal and other forms of social pain? Because we are pretty good at keeping these memories at bay.
“We had to induce our participants to think about the details of the social painful event in order to get them to feel pain at the present. Merely saying, ‘oh yeah, my boyfriend cheated on me once…’ is insufficient to cause current pain. They have to steep themselves in the memory, and that’s something we don’t ordinarily do.”
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The students were asked to note how long ago the event happened, how much it hurt at the time, how many times they had talked about the experience, and how painful the experience felt now.
Participants in the emotional pain condition reported higher levels of pain than participants in the physical pain condition, found the researchers from Purdue University in the US and Macquarie University and the University of New South Wales in Australia.
The students also reported less pain when they relived the experience than they had reported before writing the account.
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Nakakatuwa/nakakatawa lang na kailangang daanan ang alaala para gumaan ang sakit. Kung kaya, kailangan mo munang malunod sa impyerno ng sakit bago makaahon dito. Pero ang isang bagay pa na ikinaaaliw ko dito ay ang paraan ng pag-alalaala na nakatulong ay isang paraan ng pagsisiwalat. Isinulat ng mga estudyante ang masakit na pangyayari, inilalabas sa pisikal na mundo. Siguro ang pananatiling pag-ikot ng alaala sa loob ng utak ang nagpapabigat ng pakiramdam. Sa pagsusulat, ginagawang pisikal ang alaala at mas madali sigurong patayin ang mapanghahawakan, ang korporyal. Parang patunay lang na mas madaling masolusyonan ang pisikal na sakit kaysa sa abstrak na emosyonal. Pero kung ganoon lang sana kadali ang lahat, kung ganoon lang talaga sana ang kagaling ang kakayahan ng mga salita (mga salitang parang napakabilis na manakit pero ang bagal-bagal manggamot).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7512107.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2639959/Emotional-pain-hurts-more-than-physical-pain-researchers-say.html
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/sim/sim/view/20090927-227071/Food-for-Bipolar-Diners
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