from neurological point of view, why self inflicted pain hurts less or doesn’t hurt at all?
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Pain is an emotional processed layering of the stimuli of nociceptive nerve endings. Your nerve feels a strong touch and sends the signal to your brain, which then decides how you’re going to feel about it. That’s why opiates work–they don’t really dull pain, they just make you not care about it. In the same way being slapped in a certain context might feel good or painful depending on how your brain decided to present the information to you.
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