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Post by maysamyounis on Mar 19, 2016 5:02:08 GMT
KQs: Is pain a subjective or objective experience? Many people uncoolume illnesses affect everyone the same. But their effects vary wildly between individuals, with implications for diagnosis and treatment How badly affected someone is by a health issue depends on how it is perceived by the individual, and there are so many things that can influence this, even if it’s quite an obvious physical issue. Take pain, the most obvious problem resulting from a physical health issue. How do you measure, objectively, how much pain someone is in?” This link show Does this hurt? The subjectivity of ill health . www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/feb/09/does-this-hurt-subjectivity-mental-health-medicine |
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Post by jonah21 on Mar 20, 2016 0:35:38 GMT
There is the general answer that pain is experienced by everyone. However, I don't think that we can effectively measure pain because, as you said, everyone had different experiences. There is just too many factors to take into consideration about what constitutes as pain. I think that we can only be general about this and say pain is experienced by everyone.
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Post by sangjoon on Mar 20, 2016 2:46:08 GMT
I also think that pain is pretty hard to distinguish as subjective thing or objective thing. Since it's all different what each people experience and it's also all different how that feel about that experience. In other words, the line between experience and pain is made depends on each person and it's also depend on each person that they think it as subjective or objective. I think it's case by case. Thus, it's hard to distinguish the pain.
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Post by Emily on Mar 20, 2016 3:17:10 GMT
I think that pain is very subjective, as each individual person has their own definition of what pain feels like. Pain is not exactly measurable, as each person might have a different opinion on what hurts and what doesn't, and also to what degree. Because each person colors their own viewpoints on pain, therefore pain cannot be objective as objective things or ideas are given and factual.
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Post by andrewcho77 on Mar 20, 2016 5:08:01 GMT
Yeah, I agree with you guys that pain is subjective because everyone has their own pain. Some can't eat spicy food and some can handle the spice which is a pain. Everyone has different kind of pain and it can't be measured. It depends on what hurts for them and what hurts for others. Everyone is different from others and have their own experience and pain. That is why pain can't be objective because everyone has different opinions about it.
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Post by jin794 on Mar 20, 2016 5:45:44 GMT
It is hard to figure out whether pain is subjective or objective. Pain is differently experienced by everyone. It is very hard to measure pain because everyone has their own definition of pain. There are many factors that generates pain.
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Post by christopher on Mar 20, 2016 9:28:31 GMT
There is no way to measure pain. Everyone experiences pain and it really depends on the individual. There are people who can feel or hold pain while others can't. Because everyone has different point of view and experiences, the amount of pain that can be felt varies among individuals.
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Post by heesu on Mar 20, 2016 10:30:35 GMT
It is hard to determine the pain is subjective or objective because it depends on the people. Some people might feel pain through psychologically and some people might feel pain through physically. In my personal opinion, when there is physical pain, it will also give effects to our psychological. I think the experience is also big part that effects our pain. The painful memories or experience will never lost.
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Post by erickim on Mar 20, 2016 13:10:05 GMT
I also agree that pain is very subjective because everyone has different way of interpreting pain. For us, when we think about pain, we think about pain caused by objects damaging our body. But, to some people who has disorders their definition of pain probably comes from external.
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Post by Jessica (Yeeun) Kim on Mar 20, 2016 14:10:22 GMT
I believe pain is both subjective experience because everyone has different range of what pain feels like. If someone has wider range of what pain feels, she or he can feel more pain when others feels less pain. Additionally, people can not measure “Pain”, so we can say everyone has different experiences.
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Post by mayurika98 on Mar 22, 2016 13:22:36 GMT
There are different kinds of pains that can affect people in different ways. We have no way to determine the extent to how much a person feels pain. This is a pure case of subjectivity. All pain is an experienced phenomenon. You cannot experience the pain of another person and that makes it purely subjective.
You do not even know if they feel the same thing that you do when feeling pain. There is no basis upon which this can be called objective in any sense, except that people agree that pain is the result of certain things like cuts and compressions etc.
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Post by toufiq on Mar 23, 2016 0:35:07 GMT
I really do think it differs person to person both physical and mental. I saw a lot of people who breaks apart even from the slightest of the pain they can get and others who gets struck hard but acts as if nothing happened. So it depends how that person sees pain as and how he deals with it. It has nothing to do with pain itself.
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Post by lucia on Mar 23, 2016 7:58:57 GMT
I agree with you guys. Pain is merely a subjective matter, also how we deal with it, whether it be physical or mental. I've seen videos where men react to labor pain by enduring labor pain simulator. However, they can still not be accurate representations of what womem have to feel. It would be great to have pain objectively measured because everyone has a different body and doctors can make better decisions by personalizing medicine.
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Post by anniee on Mar 23, 2016 9:36:50 GMT
I don't think you can objective measure how much pain someone is in because pain is subjective; the amount of pain someone feels is based on their tolerance for pain. At hospitals, the nurse/doctor asks how much pain you're in on a scale of 1 to 10. Two people with the same conditions might answer two totally different numbers. For someone who is familiar with the feeling of pain, an injury might not hurt as much as someone who got injured for the first time. However, I don't think how a disease is perceived by an individual determines how badly someone is affected. There are occasions that someone could be suffering from something very serious like cancer, but not notice it until it has already reached the dreaded Stage 4.
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