Pain and Sorrow

Dr. Green

Pain• 1. A-delta fibers – sharp pain– fast pain

• 2. Hyperalgesia– nerves move from dormant to sensitive– flaring pain

• 3. C fibers– burning – pain slow

• 4. Descending pathways to modulate pain– opiates

Sorrow

• 1. Rupture—Howl or Scream– Bond is broken– Piercing, stabbing pain

• 2. Burning Pain—Crying• 3. Smoldering Pain—Depression• 4. Numbness– scar

Piercing Pain

• Janis Joplin, Piece of My Heart– She “screamed away her pain.”

Burning Pain

• Roy Orbison, Crying

Smoldering Pain

• Rolling Stones, As Tears Go By• Kansas, Dust in the Wind

Numbness

• Simon and Garfunkel, I Am a Rock