A compreensão deste complexo deveria ajudar a lidar com a violência, guerras, segregação, "bulling", droga-adição, luto, iniquidade, descaso, abandono e tantas outras condições às quais ainda não aprendemos a controlar, apesar de todo nosso desenvolvimento científico-tecnológico e psicológico (com atraso).
Parece que o assunto pode ir ainda mais longe: isolamento de pacientes em hospitais, em clínicas, CTII e domicílio, desigualdade de acesso à meios de comunicação, linguagem, uso indiscriminado de representações "traumáticas" na literatura, novelas e filmes.
Acho que precisamos discutir muito mais esses temas.
The pain of social exclusion
We would like to do without pain and yet without it we wouldn't be able to survive. Pain signals dangerous stimuli (internal or external) and guides our behaviour. Its ultimate goal is to prioritize escape, recovery and healing. That's why we feel it and why we're also good at detecting it in others. Pain in fact protects not only the individual but also his social bonds. The brain contains circuits related to the more physical aspects of pain and others related to affective aspects. As observed in a study just published by Giorgia Silani, Giovanni Novembre and Marco Zanon of the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) of Trieste in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, social pain activates some brain circuits of physical pain whether we feel it personally or when we experience it vicariously as an empathic response to other people's pain./.../
Praticamente todo mundo já sofreu de coração partido alguma vez na vida, não? Parte de viver incluir lidar com rejeição, traição, solidão e outros sentimentos tão terríveis que parece doerem como doenças físicas.
E doem mesmo. Pesquisas recentes mostram que a dor da rejeição dispara os mesmos neurônios no cérebro que a dor de uma queimadura ou contusão. Além de explicar por que algumas pessoas têm a pele mais espessa que outras, este fato revela uma ligação íntima entre a vida social e a saúde, que cada vez mais estudos dizem ser intrincadas./.../
Why words are as painful as sticks and stones
- 04 December 2012 by Lisa Raffensperger
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Rejection and heartbreak can have effects every bit as physical as cuts and bruises, and understanding why could change your life
IT STRUCK suddenly. First there was an ache in my chest, as if my sternum was laced too tightly. Then came the headaches and chronic tiredness. The feelings lingered for weeks, and were often at their worst just before I fell asleep each night. Though it was more than a decade ago, I remember it well, as it marked my first bout of an ailment that would be unmistakable forever after: heartbreak.
Betrayal, rejection and lost love are a fact of life, but it is only in the past 10 years that we have begun to unravel the basis of these hurt feelings in the brain. Scientists have found that the sting of rejection fires up the same neural pathways as the pain from a burn or bruise. Besides explaining why some people have thicker skins than others, this fact reveals an intimate link between your social life and your health - you really can die of loneliness./.../
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