What if we never experienced pain

[IloveTHIS]

There are common sayings about how you cant appreciate the good/joy is you never experience the bad/pain. Do you think this is true? If scientists engineered a drug that made a human physically incapable of experiencing anything other than happiness and bliss, would they be less human? Would their joy be less somehow than someone who experiencing joy mixed in with the bad stuff in life?

I'm not sure its true. Maybe just a bullshit saying to help people suck it up when shit is rough.

If you could take a pill and never experience the heartbreaking soul destroying feeling of loss, depression, physical pain etc would you take it?

 

[Soma]

You die soon after most likely.

I would not take it.

Pain is our bodies natural indicator and motivator. It's our compass and personal trainer. Does not feel good to be in pain but without it we'd be lost.

 

[trolololol]

Heartbreak, depression, etc., can all be used as motivators to improve yourself so long as you harness it correctly.

Weight loss for example, I was sick of feeling like a fat ass and that is what motivated me to work out. When all is said and done I lost 50 pounds, and I attribute all of my success to the negative feelings I had towards myself and wanting to get rid of them.

Smoking cigarettes is another one, near the end it was weighing more and more heavily on me psychologically and I used that as another reason to quit.

In summary, pain sucks but it's a part of life.

 

[faustian]

I embrace pain because, long story short, it gives meaning to me in my life

 

[Turtlejuice]

No. Pain is how you know you're alive and not living in some weird cheese dream.

Pain is also used to indicate harm or danger. Without pain you wouldn't know not to stand in the fire, and such.

 

[Johnson]

I'm bipolar af and cannot grasp how people can live without extreme happiness and pain. My highs and lows are so extreme that it's basically like I’m two different people. I need my pain almost like a drug cause it contrasts my joy so much.

I always feel like a moron trying to explain this to people who haven’t experienced it. The highs are like an acid trip 100xs over, and my lows are so crippling that I can’t even function.

I wouldn’t give it up for all the tea in china, though. I need to have my pain. I feed on it like some drug-crazed idiot. Life without extreme highs and lows just doesn’t seem worth it.

 

[Phr3121]

As my Drill Instructor used to say: "Pain is weakness leaving your body" ...keep knocking out those push ups.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

I'm bipolar af and cannot grasp how people can live without extreme happiness and pain. My highs and lows are so extreme that it's basically like I’m two different people. I need my pain almost like a drug cause it contrasts my joy so much.

I always feel like a moron trying to explain this to people who haven’t experienced it. The highs are like an acid trip 100xs over, and my lows are so crippling that I can’t even function.

I wouldn’t give it up for all the tea in china, though. I need to have my pain. I feed on it like some drug-crazed idiot. Life without extreme highs and lows just doesn’t seem worth it.

Damn that doesnt sound healthy dude. I understand what you are saying to an extent but I’d rather not have to consistently deal with lows just so that the highs feel higher. How long do you feel eurphoric/manic for it to feel like acid x100?

 

[Johnson]

Damn that doesnt sound healthy dude. I understand what you are saying to an extent but I’d rather not have to consistently deal with lows just so that the highs feel higher

It is what it is, my man. I’ve been hospitalized numerous times because of it.

I can laugh at myself after the fact cause, looking back, I come across as a loon. It does make for an interesting life. I have the most bizarre and weird stories.

Edit: and the highs last for however long they last. I can’t say there’s really a timetable. I once called the cops and asked em to escort me to the airport cause I thought everyone was photographing me and were trying to kidnap me. I ended up getting a cab, going to Dulles, and then tried to convince the airport workers that I needed a flight outta the country cause I was in danger. I was sent to the looney bin for that. Shit is funny to look back on.

 

[tru3f4n]

There are common sayings about how you cant appreciate the good/joy is you never experience the bad/pain. Do you think this is true? If scientists engineered a drug that made a human physically incapable of experiencing anything other than happiness and bliss, would they be less human? Would their joy be less somehow than someone who experiencing joy mixed in with the bad stuff in life?

I'm not sure its true. Maybe just a bullshit saying to help people suck it up when shit is rough.

If you could take a pill and never experience the heartbreaking soul destroying feeling of loss, depression, physical pain etc would you take it?

 

[biscuitsbrah]

It is what it is, my man. I’ve been hospitalized numerous times because of it.

I can laugh at myself after the fact cause, looking back, I come across as a loon. It does make for an interesting life. I have the most bizarre and weird stories.

Edit: and the highs last for however long they last. I can’t say there’s really a timetable. I once called the cops and asked em to escort me to the airport cause I thought everyone was photographing me and were trying to kidnap me. I ended up getting a cab, going to Dulles, and then tried to convince the airport workers that I needed a flight outta the country cause I was in danger. I was sent to the looney bin for that. Shit is funny to look back on.

Well shit, that’s life i guess.
What you have sounds like my friend who has PPD (paranoid personality disorder). He has these delusions like you where he gets extremely paranoid. It’s almost like a temporary case of schizophrenia but then he snaps out of it after a day or two.

He got his abusing ecstasy and weed

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

That would remove all adversity and challenges. Negative reinforcement and obstacles help us grow.

 

[Goonerview]

Some people that are emotionally suppressed or suffering from depression don't feel pain, anger properly etc. it's not healthy.

Something I have been working on is accessing my feelings more.

I think there is a James Bond villain that didn't feel pain, but couldn't feel pleasure either ... he an interesting dynamic to his character.

 

[Phr3121]

I'm bipolar af and cannot grasp how people can live without extreme happiness and pain.

I dated a girl that had both 'Bipolar' and 'Borderline Personality Disorder'. It was crazy while it lasted.

 

[Johnson]

I dated a girl that had both 'Bipolar' and 'Borderline Personality Disorder'. It was crazy while it lasted.

You meet some serious wack job women in the hospital. One girl in there kept wiping her c@nt with toilet paper and leaving it in my room. she was ugly as sin but I still boned her when we got out. We ended up going to VA beach together and sleeping in the bushes. Car got towed too.

 

[HomeRun916]

Life is so short I think we could survive without pain.

But through hardships form some of the strongest people.

 

[loyalyolayal]

Only if I can do Gun-Fu.

 

[ISTUDI]

If we didn’t feel pain then people with out fingers an limbs would be more common. It would be normal

 

[Organic Damage]

If you deleted pain yet still left intact the ability to feel pleasure, joy, etc. wouldn't that make the default emotional/physical state akin to being in constant pain, relatively speaking?

 

[Kardashians]

You meet some serious wack job women in the hospital. One girl in there kept wiping her c@nt with toilet paper and leaving it in my room. she was ugly as sin but I still boned her when we got out. We ended up going to VA beach together and sleeping in the bushes. Car got towed too.

Lmao. I would have wiped my cunt on your sheets personally. But tp is okay I guess.