2016 Volume 15 Issue 1 Pages 51-57
Are there ways to live without excessive interference of pain? Without experiencing it, people are incapable of understanding how pain interferes with life. The lack of understanding causes pain patients to struggle so greatly that death seems the only way out. How can they live without being influenced by pain?
When pain becomes worse, there are reasonable causes. However, physicians as well as people around pain patients tend to think it is difficult to understand what patients tell them about pain. Thus, some patients are pushed into providing ‘too many explanations,' hoping to be understood. But such an attempt is rarely successful and they end up in hopelessness. On the other hand, there are patients who complain less of their pain. While living their social life, they may cope with their pain by ‘normalisation,' ‘pacing,' ‘tolerance,' and ‘exercises to improve physique.' The author thinks that they might even go so far as to ‘reshape the perception and interpretation of pain'. How do silent patients manage their pain?
It is encouraging that a new approach to pain patients has started. This approach is expected to facilitate the understanding of pain experience and underlying causes, and give all patients hope for recovery.
In this paper, the author attempts to describe aggravated pain and distress of patients from our filed cases, and invites all to consider what can be done to find a way of helping patients to be least affected by their pain experience.
