Monday, October 15, 2012
Social Pain
Social pain is referred to as a emotional distress. How can emotional distress be a pain? To me pain is something physical like getting cut by a knife or burned by the stove. Yeah after a break up you might be a little down but it isnt painful. Nothing has happened to you physically that causes the pain. I think social pain is all mental. Alot of people let this "social pain" get out of hand and causes them all kinds of problems in their life. People with social pain feel sad and left out and this can all lead to depression in which most cases it does. You can take tylenol to help with social pain but what happens when it doesnt work anymore? You eventually get diagnosed with depression and get put on antidepressants which is not a good thing. When I read about social pain I was like wow this has to be a joke right? I guess because I am a guy I see social pain being a joke. I mean people nowadays let everything even the littlest thing get to them and bring them down. People just have to stop being babys and suck it up! Everyone faces problems and you dont see everyone sad and depressed. There is times when its ok to be emotionally distressed like when you lose a loved one but life does go on. When I lost my grandpa I was in grief for several days but thats natural, now its not natural when you let it get out of control and months later you are still in bed hating the world. I just knew that my grandpa was in a better place and is looking down at me from heaven. It also depends on your self esteem, the higher your self esteem you are less likely to feel this social pain and the lower your self esteem you will be more vulnerable.
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You made a lot of good points. However, as ridiculous as it may seem social distress can be painful. I suppose in the same way that people who are depressed experience general aches and pains. Times have changed so much, I'm not saying it is a good thing but it's reality. Like you said, people have become big babies, but it is through fault of our own. For example, the bullying problem that the world seems to be having right now is ridiculous. When we were kids a good old ass kicking was all it took to solve bullying.
ReplyDeleteI understand what you're trying to say but you can't be so insensitive to emotions and stress! Yes, it is true some people let their emotions get out of hand and they become so unstable that it leads to depression.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that emotional distress is a state of mind. When people are sad or mad, they usually are a bit more negative than a neutral or happy person.
I didn't know self-esteem was a factor in social pain. You would think that would be like a "duh" type of statement, but I really didn't know. haha
The word pain has to do with a feeling of discomfort; therefore, there is such a thing as Social Pain. Of course I agree that people now-a-days take this "pain" and run miles with it acting as if the world is gonna end. Sure a good ass whooping would solve a lot of problems, but it couldn't solve all of them. Now the self-esteem comment you made is very....well I think it's the answer to a lot of the other problems an ass whooping can't fix. It really is all in the mind, including physical pain. If you don't want to feel pain, you won't because you're telling your brain not to. Self-esteem works the same way, the better you feel about yourself the less emotions and things around you can effect you in a negative way.
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