🕵️‍♂️ Why Are We Still So Afraid of Pain?

For all our progress in neuroscience and rehabilitation, one stubborn fact remains: we’re still terrified of pain. Not just because it hurts, but because we’ve built a culture around avoiding it at all costs. Pain is marketed as a defect, a flaw, a failure. And even clinicians, trained in modern pain science, can get caught reinforcing the fear.

But pain isn’t the enemy. It’s a signal—sometimes a protector, sometimes a messenger. When we learn to listen to it, rather than eliminate it, we shift from helplessness to agency.

If we want to change the pain conversation, we have to stop fearing it first.

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