Eli5: why does electricity hurt so much?

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Not exactly sure what to put this under but yeah

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your body tells the brain things using nerves. This includes pain.

These nerves use chemical-electric signals.

Electricity can activate a nerve that would not otherwise be active.

So electricity can force all of the nerves in an area to report to the brain, including the ones that report pain. It can also send signals to force muscles to contract in other areas of your body, which also causes pain in that area to be reported to the brain.

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