#531 The Choice in Suffering: Navigating Physical and Emotional Pain
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.4 • 920 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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The Choice in Suffering: Navigating Physical and Emotional Pain
Pain, whether physical or emotional, is a nearly universal human experience, yet our relationship with it varies dramatically. Welcome to "The Choice in Suffering," where we'll explore why some individuals find resilience and even joy amidst hardship, while others feel defined and trapped by their pain.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Today I want to talk about a difficult topic, pain. As a clinical psychologist, you may think I'm going to talk about just emotional pain, but I also want to talk about physical pain, |
| 0:21.9 | because both of them are very challenging experiences that most of us will probably experience |
| 0:28.3 | many times in our lives. One of my dear relatives who I talk to every week is 82 years old, |
| 0:35.8 | and she's in a lot of physical pain. Another friend of mine who I went to |
| 0:39.9 | college with posts almost daily on social media how he's dealing or not dealing well with his |
| 0:47.5 | wife who's dying from cancer and the emotional pain he's under. I remember reading a story once |
| 0:53.9 | about one of the queens of Europe, |
| 0:56.1 | who was under severe physical pain, and she said she would give up all her kingdom to be pain-free. |
| 1:03.8 | Here in the U.S. where we're having a fentanyl severe crisis, fentanyl overdose killed over 70,000 people last year, and at its core, |
| 1:15.5 | fentanyl is a painkiller, and yet it's killing us. So if you've ever been under severe, |
| 1:21.9 | emotional, or physical pain, my guess is you know exactly what I'm talking about and how devastating, |
| 1:29.3 | overwhelming, and crippling pain can be. But this is the happiness podcast, and I want to give |
| 1:36.2 | us hope. I want to give us tools so we don't have to suffer as much when we are going |
| 1:43.2 | through a physical or emotional crisis of pain. |
| 1:47.8 | And I want to do this by starting to talk about the difference between pain and suffering, |
| 1:52.9 | because they are different. |
| 1:54.9 | Pain is a physical sensation or emotional hurt versus suffering, which is the story, the resistance, the amplification we add |
| 2:05.2 | to the pain. And then we have acute versus chronic pain, where acute pain is like a warning |
| 2:11.7 | signal, there's something wrong. Be careful. Take care of this. Where chronic pain has to do more with there's something overall |
| 2:20.8 | wrong that is not functioning well and we need to fix it. And then lastly, there's the mind-body |
| 2:27.3 | connection. What I mean by that is stress, anxiety, depression can manifest physically and worsen the pain and vice versa. |
| 2:37.3 | When we have pain, it can affect our stress, anxiety, and depression. |
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