Can you be suffering and not aware of it?

[hypochondriac]

Yet that seems to be the major part of the suffering. That you are aware of it.
If i think back to some difficult periods in my life though. I wasnt so aware of that suffering. I didnt say to myself " I am suffering". Maybe it made it easier to survive that time.
So if we are in pain either mentally or physically better not to dwell on it?

 

[MeAgain]

Sometimes.

 

[C'est Moi]

I don't see how it would be possible to be suffering yet unaware of it. If a person doesn't KNOW they are suffering, how can they be?

 

[MeAgain]

I don't see how it would be possible to be suffering yet unaware of it. If a person doesn't KNOW they are suffering, how can they be?

Easy but complicated.

 

[C'est Moi]

Easy but complicated.

Sorry, not buying. "Suffering" means feeling pain, misery or distress. So a person would have to FEEL suffering. If they don't feel it, they aren't suffering.

 

[hypochondriac]

Sorry, not buying. "Suffering" means feeling pain, misery or distress. So a person would have to FEEL suffering. If they don't feel it, they aren't suffering.

different pain thresholds is one aspect.

 

[Olivia]

Only someone with electric shock therapy or a lobotomy.

 

[hypochondriac]

im saying we add to our pain by thinking about it. If my dog is suffering from a broken leg he doesnt say to himself " im suffering." therefore his pain is less.

 

[Olivia]

And he told you this?

 

[MeAgain]

Sorry, not buying. "Suffering" means feeling pain, misery or distress. So a person would have to FEEL suffering. If they don't feel it, they aren't suffering.

We all have a habit of fibbing to ourselves maybe what your doing now, LOL Just kidding with you Cest

 

[Olivia]

For someone not to be aware of their suffering either mental, emotional, or physical is not a good thing. You can't do anything to improve something you're not aware of. That's what people go to therapy for.

 

[MeAgain]

And he told you this?

Maybe Mr.Ed relayed the message?

 

[hypochondriac]

For someone not to be aware of their suffering either mental, emotional, or physical is not a good thing. You can't do anything to improve something you're not aware of. That's what people go to therapy for.

some either are too aware or not aware enough. hypersensitive versus undersensitive

 

[Olivia]

some either are too aware or not aware enough. hypersensitive versus undersensitive

No, you said "unaware". Changing what you mean just changes what you mean.

 

[MeAgain]

For someone not to be aware of their suffering either mental, emotional, or physical is not a good thing. You can't do anything to improve something you're not aware of. That's what people go to therapy for.

Some therapest will mess you up to where you don't know if your coming or going. If you don't have a problem they will be glad to cook up one for you.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
My doctor told me to take a med that will mess up my kidneys but make em even better after it messes em up, kid you not. I told her if it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

[Olivia]

Some therapest will mess you up to where you don't know if your coming or going. If you don't have a problem they will be glad to cook up one for you.
If it ain't broke don't fix it.
My doctor told me to take a med that will mess up my kidneys but make em even better after it messes em up, kid you not. I told her if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Now you're changing the subject. I was responding the the OP. Maybe someone else would be interested in jumping in.

Maybe Mr.Ed relayed the message?

I thought this was a serious thread. Guess I guessed wrong.

 

[MeAgain]

Now you're changing the subject. I was responding the the OP. Maybe someone else would be interested in jumping in.



I thought this was a serious thread. Guess I guessed wrong.

Don't feel bad we all make mistakes.

 

[Olivia]

Don't feel bad we all make mistakes.

At this point I don't know what your problem is except that you don't seem to know how to follow a conversation.

 

[MeAgain]

At this point I don't know what your problem is except that you don't seem to know how to follow a conversation.

I'm doing you a favor since obviously like to argue so I'm just obliging ya. Now what round is this I forgot?

 

[Judycat]

Blah, dogs don't show suffering as a defensive behavior, they are still suffering and they know it.

 

[Olivia]

I'm doing you a favor since obviously like to argue so I'm just obliging ya. Now what round is this I forgot?

If arguing is a difference of opinion, then yes we are arguing. Enjoy yourself.

 

[MeAgain]

If arguing is a difference of opinion, then yes we are arguing. Enjoy yourself.

Ok thanks and same to you. I do get a laugh out of us now and then. Hope you do too and don't take it serious.

 

[AZ Jim]

Yet that seems to be the major part of the suffering. That you are aware of it.
If i think back to some difficult periods in my life though. I wasnt so aware of that suffering. I didnt say to myself " I am suffering". Maybe it made it easier to survive that time.
So if we are in pain either mentally or physically better not to dwell on it?

Your user name signals a mind set. If you have to seek it out, you are NOT suffering. Positive thinking trumps the negative....

 

[Repondering]

If an unpleasant life is all one has ever known, then suffering might seem normal. I didn't enjoy very much of anything until I moved into a college dormitory at age 18. Forty eight years later it seems so clear....what I was abruptly experiencing was contentment and happiness for the first time. I had never really been aware of suffering before and oddly, even though I immediately loved being at college, happiness was a word I didn't use and didn't even understand the meaning of.
So yes, in my opinion it's possible to suffer and not really know it. An unenviable condition to be sure.

 

[Judycat]

If you don't know you are suffering then you aren't suffering. There is plenty of suffering going on in the world. It doesn't make it any less painful for the ones enduring it if the rest of us decide to ignore it.