#477 Mental Pain as Urgent as Physical Pain

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Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.

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🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Mental Pain as Urgent as Physical Pain

We're trained to recognize physical pain. A broken bone, a deep cut –these demand immediate attention. But what about the pain that isn't visible? The ache of depression, the sharp sting of anxiety, the relentless throb of unhealed trauma? We've been conditioned to ignore these wounds of the mind, to tell ourselves to "toughen up" or "just get over it." This needs to change.

Mental pain is not a sign of weakness. It's a signal, just as vital as the alarm bells of physical injury. Our psychological struggles are our mind's desperate way of telling us that something is deeply wrong. Just like we wouldn't ignore a bleeding wound, we cannot ignore the cries of a wounded spirit. Dismissing emotional pain can lead to severe consequences - worsening mental health, strained relationships, and even the tragic potential of self-harm or suicide. By recognizing mental pain as the urgent call for help it truly is, we take the first step towards healing and creating healthier, more resilient lives.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. There's a lot of ways we can struggle in life, but one of the big ones is physical pain.
0:17.0	And I'm sure many of us wish we didn't have these sensations of physical pain,
0:22.0	because then wouldn't life be so much better?
0:24.8	But have you ever personally known anyone who's in a wheelchair because they can't walk?
0:29.9	Because they may have been in an accident or something happened, where they became a paraplegic and now they have been in an accident or something happened where they became a paraplegic and now they can't
0:35.2	feel their legs or move them at all? Well if you ever have known someone in this situation, what
0:40.9	you'll learn is they have to be especially careful for injuries because
0:45.4	they can't feel injuries they can't feel pain and injuries would not attended to get
0:51.4	worse and can cause a lot of havoc on the body and can even
0:55.0	kill a person. So a person who is paraplegic has to regularly look for sores,
1:01.7	for injuries or signs of something's wrong on their bodies because their body
1:06.4	isn't telling them there's anything wrong through pain. So though of course
1:11.4	physical pain is something that is very unpleasant that many of us have to deal with, some of us on a daily basis,
1:18.0	it can have a purpose and it ultimately does have a purpose in the sense of telling us something is wrong.
1:26.0	Something needs to be addressed.
1:28.0	Something needs to be healed.
1:30.0	So when we have physical pain, there's things that we can do to address that pain.
1:36.3	We can ignore it, we can try to numb it, we can delve into the pain, and just let it get worse and just feel like our lives are miserable,
1:46.0	or we can try to do things to help alleviate the pain, and sometimes, often we can do things to even make it better.
1:54.4	Throughout my life, I've always been a very physically active person.
1:57.9	I just like doing things.
1:59.7	I like going to the gym and lifting weights.
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