Leprosy is the classic disease where the most visible deformities are due to a lack of feeling pain. The mycobacterium is thought to attack the long nerves of the arms and legs, which results in the patients being unable to detect damage - resulting in burns, infections and loss of toes/limbs.
One of the problems of treating chronic pain is that it doesn't just involve pain nerve fibres, but also the cerebral perception of pain. Patients who have had amputations can have a 'phantom limb' syndrome, where it seems the cerebrum has remapped it's input somewhere else. They can also get phantom limb pain - which given there isn't a limb or nerve fibres shows how difficult it can be to treat chronic pain.
We’ve come a long way from the 2007 study by Italian nuns on the connection between stress and disease. You know, which I read about at the job I started on March 15th (ref: HELen).
> We’ve come a long way from the 2007 study by Italian nuns on the connection between stress and disease. You know, which I read about at the job I started on March 15th (ref: HELen).
Have you read about theory of mind? It involves the ability to imagine the beliefs, knowledge and perspective of others as different from one's own.
Now, imagine you are a person other than yourself. You come across a comment such as yours. What would you make of it?
One of the problems of treating chronic pain is that it doesn't just involve pain nerve fibres, but also the cerebral perception of pain. Patients who have had amputations can have a 'phantom limb' syndrome, where it seems the cerebrum has remapped it's input somewhere else. They can also get phantom limb pain - which given there isn't a limb or nerve fibres shows how difficult it can be to treat chronic pain.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198614/