How do you coup with pain?

[Soods]

Emotional pain: suppress it and wait for an emotional outburst later.
Physical: I convert the pain to swearing.

 

[SovietX]

I just swear. But pain doesn't really bother me, like cuts and bruises, but it does when I do small stuff like hitting my toe on the couch or knocking my head on a table, that shit hurts.

 

[johnnnny guitar]

I just go through it usually I can handle it except when i get hit in the balls then I go down

 

[Auninteligentname]

I will continue as normal, unless the pain is too much too handle, which then will ''cripple'', or slow me much down, for further action untill the pain is gone. Ever smashed you little toe into something? Well, then you know the pain and you'll be suprised if you ever see me smash my toe in that matter, as you'll see me running around.

 

[DrDango]

the simple knowledge that i've been hurt worse before

 

[Kenko]

If it's really too much emotionially I play games till I forget about it. It comes back, but atleast im given some respite.

Physical pain on the other hand im relativley familiar with from my childhood (Not abused, just accident-prone and too curious for my own good) so it doesn't bother me terribly, it usually just pisses me off. Ofcoures that depends on the severity of the cause of said pain. If my guts are hanging out im not exactly gonna go "I AINT GOT TIME TO BLEED!".

 

[luclin92]

i ignore the headache, unless it gets to big then i most of the time need to take my migraine pills.
other pain i just get a little grumpy and walk it of if i can walk.

 

[CaptainREBell]

I happen to hold my breath.
Probably not the best idea, but I have a super awesome body that doesn't break, so the worst pains I've had to deal with have been self-inflicted! Tattoos and piercings and plucking and the like >_<

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I've not been through anything too stressful but I handle pain pretty well, even something of a masochist

 

[The_ModeRazor]

Hmmm... about a month ago, I sprained my ankle real bad (curiously enough, it still hurts if I try to run/jump), and it went something like this:

"GRAARRHHHHHHHFFFFUUUUUUCKCKKKAAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH I'm okay, really... AAAAAAWWWWFUUUUUUCCCKKKKKK Yeah, I don't need help, just gonna go and sit down a little... FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCKKKK Yup, doesn't even hurt a bit". And then it really didn't hurt. Making noises like a rabid animal apparently helps with the pain.

And wow. I just had a Déja Vu so epic, it might as well have been a flashback.

 

[Mercurio128]

I used the same method as you actually. I dislocated my kneecap at work last week and spent the next 20 minutes in a huge amount of pain waiting for the ambulance to arrive, which I survived by making stupid wise-ass comments to all the questions I was being asked. e.g.
-Are you OK?
-Why yes, I'm fine, bit of a cold. How are you? Do anything fun over the weekend? *through gritted teeth*

 

[Yopaz]

The worst pain I've ever experienced was in my kidneys I screamed in pain for 4 hours while the pain kept getting worse and worse. What relieved me was walking. Then I called an ambulance, walked downstairs to meet the ambulance drivers and 30 minutes later I was drugged... so I guess not at all?
Other pains than that intense pain I felt there I just ignore. I walked a few days on a strained ankle (I twisted my leg while running to reach the bus and resumed running after my leg was swollen and blue) turned out walking helped me then too.

 

[ChildofGallifrey]

I constantly get kidney stones.

Ouch. I feel your pain. I've had 5 in the last 4 years, and it sucks harder than Megan Fox reciting Shakespeare. I hardly ever use the Lortab that I'm prescribed though. I find that pacing back and forth briskly works wonders for me. I'll only ever take the medicine if I'm having a particularly bad attack around a reasonable bedtime.

That and swearing. Swearing makes everything better.

 

[Darzen]

I actually enjoy pain so...ya i coup by enjoying or ignoring.
Emotional pain...I cry alot and retreat into myself

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Kinda curious, how do my fellow Escapists coup with physical pain?

How do I coup with pain? I organise an underground resistance, spread the word, slowly arm and train my supporters then organise the main event. I send out small groups of splinter cells, none of whom know about the others and each have different objectives. Then when they're all in place, I overthrow the pain.

 

[Soviet Steve]

Well a while back I broke my ankle in three places. Never having broken something before, naturally I tried to stand up afterwards. That was unpleasant. I managed to get through it by shouting obsceneties while there was no-one around, and after someone found me I just stayed calm, noted my injuries weren't going to be fatal, and that I am not an American so I wouldn't be kicked out've the hospital for not being rich.

 

[Dogstile]

Either painkillers if its a pain I can't physically touch (it drives me nuts, a massive gash I can deal with, a small cut on the inside of my ear will make me want to kill things) or if I can touch it i'll usually deal with it.

 

[Valksy]

Depends on the sort of pain. Minor pain, I don't even notice it. Number of times I have said "eewww blood! oh, it's coming from me..."

Serious pain... well. I find that you get used to it, consciously at least. Constant or persistent pain is actually really exhausting and wearing on a person and not good for you at all. But at some level, you can get used to it. Everyone is a little different, every has a different threshold of pain. I would never question someone's pain even if it is a minor thing that I wouldn't be troubled by.

Emotional pain? I'm still devastated by the loss of my beloved tabby cat after more than two years. But I no longer give other people the power to cause that pain in me, it channels in to anger before it becomes pain.

 

[aba1]

I just suck it up n ignor it and pretent its not there drives my gf nuts tho shes alot more germ sensitive than I am but i try to let myself get exposed to build up better imunitees

 

[Mordekaien]

I mostly shake it off.... by cursing, mostly