Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!mit-eddie!mintaka!yale!bunker!wtm From: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr) Newsgroups: misc.handicap Subject: Re: Money Summary: Can't compare people! Message-ID: <13713@bunker.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 20:10:16 GMT References: <13611@bunker.UUCP> Sender: wtm@bunker.UUCP Reply-To: cas@mtdcb.att.com (Clifford A Stevens, Jr) Distribution: misc Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 29 Approved: wtm@bunker.UUCP Fidonet: Spinal Injury Conference Index Number: 9997 In article <13611@bunker.UUCP>, Jean.Prophet@f33.n371.z1.fidonet.org (Jean Prophet) writes: JP> Index Number: 9906 JP> JP> > I even stopped going to the Chronic Pain support group, since JP> > everyone else made their pain seem more important...and it was JP> > depressing to listen to them. JP> JP> No one's pain is more important .... And a lot of people feel pain JP> worse than others (Buddy's pain tolerance is VERY high ... mine, well, if I JP> get a little 'cut' I think I'm going to die ). I'm sure JP> that your pain is very real, and you might be one of those people (like me) JP> that doesn't tolerate pain very well. I don't mean to be a 'Baby' about my JP> pain (I have severe Arthuritus (sp) in my back) ... BUT, when it hurts, it JP> HURTS !!! As I've learned from long hours of arguing w my therapists, you *CAN NOT* compare like that! OK, you can say, "A needle in my finger sends me into hysterics, but does not bother Buddy!", but does that imply that each of you has the same stimulus traveling up to your brains, and that your brains handle the stimulus the same? And a persons pain *IS* the most important! (To him! Except for a few unusual people!) And arthuritus is spelled arthritis. :-) ------------ Militant Handicapped Survivor! Cliff Stevens MT1E228 att!cbnewsj!ncas (908)671-7292