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Directions (Q. 56-60) : Read the passage given below and answer the questions based on it.
Under standing Pain
Pleasure and pain are inseparable facets of human existence. While the experience of our well-being is rather vague and intangible, the experience of pain is real, and affects our body, mind and spirit, altering our lives in more ways than one. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience caused by tissue damage that results from physical trauma, burns, illness, injury or surgery. Despite the agony caused by pain, it is essential for our survival. If you don’t feel pain, you could cause great harm to your body by inadvertently touching a hot iron or jamming your finger in the drawer and not even know it. Or you could rupture the appendix and be unaware of what was going on inside your body. Pain rings an alarm bell, alerting you to pay immediate attention and take quick action.
Have you ever wondered why a severely wounded soldier continues to battle on so defiantly or an athlete injured during a race goes on to win it? It happens so because the brain does not react immediately to the pain signals, the sufferer just ignores them because there are more important tasks to attend to. The pain registers only after the task or event is over. The perception of pain has been studied extensively by psychologists who suggest that there is a “gating system” in the central nervous system that opens and closes to let pain pass through to the brain or block it. Psychological factors such as attention to pain, emotional state of a person, anticipation of pain and the way that a person interprets a situation can both open and close the “gates”. This is why when you are depressed or anxious your pain seems worse and intolerable—because your feelings can open the pain gate.
Under standing Pain
Pleasure and pain are inseparable facets of human existence. While the experience of our well-being is rather vague and intangible, the experience of pain is real, and affects our body, mind and spirit, altering our lives in more ways than one. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience caused by tissue damage that results from physical trauma, burns, illness, injury or surgery. Despite the agony caused by pain, it is essential for our survival. If you don’t feel pain, you could cause great harm to your body by inadvertently touching a hot iron or jamming your finger in the drawer and not even know it. Or you could rupture the appendix and be unaware of what was going on inside your body. Pain rings an alarm bell, alerting you to pay immediate attention and take quick action.
Have you ever wondered why a severely wounded soldier continues to battle on so defiantly or an athlete injured during a race goes on to win it? It happens so because the brain does not react immediately to the pain signals, the sufferer just ignores them because there are more important tasks to attend to. The pain registers only after the task or event is over. The perception of pain has been studied extensively by psychologists who suggest that there is a “gating system” in the central nervous system that opens and closes to let pain pass through to the brain or block it. Psychological factors such as attention to pain, emotional state of a person, anticipation of pain and the way that a person interprets a situation can both open and close the “gates”. This is why when you are depressed or anxious your pain seems worse and intolerable—because your feelings can open the pain gate.
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