Tag: coping

Pain

After thinking of pain management procedures and situations where people experience intense pain, I started to wonder, what determines a person’s pain tolerance? Research shows that it is a variety of factors. Depression and anxiety can make a person more sensitive to pain. Athletes can withstand more pain than people who do not exercise, and…


The Voices In My Head

This is an excellent video about a lady’s (Eleanor Longden’s) experiences with schizophrenia. She has some good advice for people suffering from this illness or people who are coping with hearing voices, grotesque visions, suffering from delusions, or experiencing hallucinations in general.  I really like how she explains that her voices were a meaningful response…