Why do humans need pain 10 Articles

by Johnathan Vredeveld

You forget to use oven mitts when you go to remove that tray from inside the burning hot kitchen appliance. Upon touching your fingers to the heated metal dish, your hand yanks back with a small "ouch". You can't recall if...read more

by Edgar Solorio

Why do humans need pain, well in a short simple answer, we need pain for many reasons than you would think. Pain can be delivered in 2 main ways, such as emotional pain and physical pain. It is the sensory feeling that hel...read more

by Mary Vance

Pain teaches us to avoid many things that can harm our bodies. From such things as not touching a hot surface, to not starting fights with people twice our size. Through out our lifetime we learn to avoid different ...read more

by Ivan-ac

Quite simply, humans NEED pain, to help avoid injury and death. There is a very rare condition known as 'Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhidrosis', or 'CIPA'. Perhaps 100 people in the world have this disorder, whi...read more

by Rachel Stockton

There have been numerous studies which have pointed to the fact that brain chemistry changes after trauma. In the case of my father, I have seen, firsthand, that this is true. And, in his case, the changes were not all n...read more

by Ben Hughes

Pain is a necessary part of our lives which life would more difficult without. But why would life be so much harder without the suffering which, apart from those among us with a (sexual) sado-masochistic tendency, we all h...read more

by Kaneta Babar

Why do humans need pain? Pain to me is a sign of being alive, it is no doubt an UN- pleasant experience to go through but as long as we are alive we will have to face pain in some form or another no matter what, just a...read more

by Nish Laverz

We humans need to feel pain know we are alive. It is our bodies way of reacting to injury to warn us something is wrong. It is natural to feel pain in all it forms. The mental pain you feel when you lose someone close ...read more

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by Sam Brougher

To understand why humans need pain, let us examine what happens to humans who do not feel pain: The condition is called congenital analgia. People with this disorder cannot feel pain, and sometimes cannot feel temperatu...read more

by Jamie Clarke

an uncommon disease known to mankind that dated back to the 600's, known as leprosy (despite popular belief does not cause limbs to fall off) is actually the nerves dying, thus making the infected individual unable to feel...read more