Pain..
Man, I feel like as though I’m living in a hostel, with my whole daily routine ‘scheduled’ according to an imaginary time table. Everyday I have to wake up early just to be in time to grab a whole table for myself in the library (the library is packed with couples dating by 9 that its so hard to get a table until 4.) ok now I talk like an ultimate nerd, chasing for a library table, but really, I need it, or ill divert myself from books if I were to be at home. Finals are so near that I barely have time to do anything (and I still update my blog, go to Pasar Malam twice weekly, go clubbing q sat, never missed dance class, chat away with Nads about some invented philosophy bla..bla. But ya when it comes to studying, I just don’t have time :-))
So anyway, today in the library I was reading about pain (yawn..yawn). When I was just about to close my already watery, bored eyes, I came across a sentence saying
‘anxiety, depression, fatigue, anger and fear lower this threshold (pain), whilst rest, mood elevation, sympathy, diversion, and understanding raise the pain threshold’.Ref: Pharmacotherapy-a pathophysiological approach by Joseph T.Dipiro et al.
Ok I’m not here to talk about pain but this sentence made me think of the first ever tattoo I had. Like in my previous post months ago, I claimed that it wasn’t painful at all, now that I’ve understand the whole pain threshold thingy, I can only conclude that I didn’t feel anything coz I was so bloody pissed off with my x and I was kind of nervous with the thought of having tats.
Later I found out that many first-timers especially girls said it wasn’t painful the first time, but it was killing the second. The reason; simply coz mostly the first time they do it is because of an awful break up, or coz their pets died ( the tattoo artists says so, not me), and the second time, since obviously they had already experience the not so painful event, don’t really have any feelings and are calm, so it is dreadfully painful.
As for me, I’m going to do a second one after my finals, without a reason (I’m not angry at anyone). And since this pain threshold thingy is scaring the hell out of me, I guess ill have to equip myself with an extreme anxiety feeling so that it will be least painful.
Oh but I’m so excited!! and I’m addicted to the pain!!
So anyway, today in the library I was reading about pain (yawn..yawn). When I was just about to close my already watery, bored eyes, I came across a sentence saying
‘anxiety, depression, fatigue, anger and fear lower this threshold (pain), whilst rest, mood elevation, sympathy, diversion, and understanding raise the pain threshold’.Ref: Pharmacotherapy-a pathophysiological approach by Joseph T.Dipiro et al.
Ok I’m not here to talk about pain but this sentence made me think of the first ever tattoo I had. Like in my previous post months ago, I claimed that it wasn’t painful at all, now that I’ve understand the whole pain threshold thingy, I can only conclude that I didn’t feel anything coz I was so bloody pissed off with my x and I was kind of nervous with the thought of having tats.
Later I found out that many first-timers especially girls said it wasn’t painful the first time, but it was killing the second. The reason; simply coz mostly the first time they do it is because of an awful break up, or coz their pets died ( the tattoo artists says so, not me), and the second time, since obviously they had already experience the not so painful event, don’t really have any feelings and are calm, so it is dreadfully painful.
As for me, I’m going to do a second one after my finals, without a reason (I’m not angry at anyone). And since this pain threshold thingy is scaring the hell out of me, I guess ill have to equip myself with an extreme anxiety feeling so that it will be least painful.
Oh but I’m so excited!! and I’m addicted to the pain!!
