For instance, if you’ve ever cut a nail too short and keep pressing on that spot, or enjoyed getting spanked during sex?
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When you’re in pain, your body also activates painkillers at the same time.
Why?! It’s the human body, it always fights against itself, that’s how systems stabilize, by pushing back and forth.
Turns out, sometimes your body activates more painkillers than there is pain. And those painkillers are the same stuff your body uses to indicate to your brain that ‘good things are happening to the body.’
We wouldn’t have this problem if the body used two different chemicals for those two jobs, but the hormone chemical system was ‘good enough’ loooong before our brains got big enough to cheat our body.
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