Pleasant pain, why can pain like?

Does the reader sound the pleasant pain? Angel has a decay and every time he eats meat he needs to wear a stick to get the food that is usually left in the small hole. However, it is not enough to eliminate the rest of the food, but continues to rummage through blood. Despite pain and blood, he rummage a few more seconds. On the other hand, María José, every time she goes to the physiotherapist she feels great pain when she massages the contractures area, but Not only does he feel pain, but he also feels pleasure.

Some people take advantage of certain situations to feel some pleasure with pain, as in the previous examples. But We can also find other groups that carry out painful practices on purpose, Like sadomasochists. The use of whips and torture tools to cause pain in certain sexual and not sexual practices is no secret. Even some people throw rising wax on the skin. Do we go a little more to know what hides behind this pleasant pain? 

Content

• Pleasant pain
• Prefrontal cortex and limbic system
• Difference between the search for pain
  • "Good pain and bad pain"
• Final reflection and self -esteem
  • Bibliography

Pleasant pain

What relationship can exist between two different concepts as pain and pleasure?  To find the key we must enter the most mysterious place of the human being: the brain. In this organ is the key and, specifically, in the endorphins. As Leticia Cuevas describes in your scientific article Importance of endorphin production to avoid stress and metabolic syndrome (2015), endorphins They are substances similar to endogenous morphine, and They are responsible for the sensations of well -being, joy, pleasure and desire to live that we can experience.

As Pedrajas and Molino describe in their article Neuromedical Bases of Pain (2008), the nervous system (SN) has an intrinsic analgesic system that generates endogenous endogenous substances or opioids: endorphins. Thus, when we feel pain, SN receptors send the signal to the brain and this begins to release endorphine. The counterpoint, and the part of the matter, is that The generation of endorphins that aims to protect us from pain, also produces pleasure and well -being.

Prefrontal cortex and limbic system

Interestingly, endorphins stimulate the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, areas that are also activated when we listen to a song that we like or when we fall in love. Thus, They can become behaviors that we look voluntarily. In the same way that we listen to a song that we like and feel well -being, we can cause pain to feel that "well -being".

Difference between the search for pain

It is important to note that this article focuses on the search for pain produced by the search for pleasure due to endorphins. The importance is that there is also a more psychological pain search, that is, sometimes we prefer to suffer from dealing with our thoughts, or We can believe that we deserve to suffer and seek - or we do not avoid - painful experiences. The difference lies in a "painful" pain and a pleasant pain. Although both cause pain, the first would be aim.

"Good pain and bad pain"

At this point, it should be noted that in some sexual practices in which pain is used as a means of pleasure, when a certain type of practice can be harmful or detrimental, it ceases to be carried out. In an interview for the BBC, the professional sadistic Mistress Alexandra states that they distinguish between good pain and bad pain. Good pain is pleasant and bad pain that must stop a practice immediately. When it becomes potentially dangerous, what is being done stops.

Final reflection and self -esteem

As you have allowed to glimpse some paragraphs above, it is essential to point out the objective of the search for pain, since it can reveal how our self -esteem is. On the one hand, we can find ourselves looking for or not putting resistance to painful situations with the aim of punishing us. On the other hand, one day and in isolation we can feel that pleasant pain in the physiotherapist or scrutinizing our teeth with a stick. The important issue would be to find out the frequency with which we need to look for that pain and the goal. Are we looking for that pleasant pain frequently?

Even if it is a pleasant pain, if our search is constant, it can also be masking a low self -esteem. This that, It would be a way to obtain a pleasure that we do not know how to obtain in another way. Therefore, it is essential to analyze our objective and the frequency of a painfully pleasant practice. Are we looking for the release of endorphins to cover a low self -esteem? It is a fact to take into account if we discover that our frequency of pleasant pain is usual.

Bibliography

• Cuevas, l. (2015). Importance of endorphin production to avoid stress and metabolic syndrome. Electronic Research Magazine Fesi-Unam, 4 (7).
• Government, Tsaria. (2005). Why can pain be pleasant? BBC News.
• Pedrajas, j. and mill, to. (2008). Neuromedical Bases of Pain.