25 Types Of Pain You Can’t Truly Comprehend Until You’ve Experienced Them
Pain is a deeply personal experience, and some pains can’t truly be explained until they’re felt firsthand. Recently, one netizen turned to the internet to pose a compelling question : “What is a pain you can’t truly explain until you’ve endured it?” The responses poured in, and the online community didn’t hold back in sharing their most profound, emotional, and sometimes unexpected answers.
Scrolling through the responses, it becomes clear that pain, whether physical or emotional, has a way of binding people together. Though the pain itself may be inexplicable, sharing it somehow makes it more bearable. Users comforted one another, shared tips for coping, and reminded each other that while pain is inevitable, so is healing.
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#1
Losing my dog. I know it seems so minor compared to bigger life problems but nothing has broken my heart more than losing him.
#2
Depression. its leagues different from just being sad. you can never really explain the feeling to someone whos never experienced it.
#3
Nerve pain. I contemplated cutting off my arm because I didn’t know how to make it stop. Also unmedicated child birth.. wasn’t my plan, but the baby came way too fast. Didn’t even know there was a fetal ejection reflex. Giving birth to your twins, knowing they won’t survive (21-22 weeks old). That wheel chair ride out of the hospital with 2 boxes of handprints instead of babies will forever replay in my head.
#4
Losing a child.
#5
Chronic pain with no hope of relief.
#6
Full blown “k**l me” migraines. Had one I lost the ability to read and recognize faces. Went to ER thinking stroke. Nope just a really bad migraine. .
#7
One word: Endometriosis. I had enough of this freaking disease.
Edit: I never expected my comment to get so many likes, but thank you everyone for sharing your stories with us all. We need to spread awareness about endometriosis so more people can understand their pain isn’t normal. I’m just so heartbroken there isn’t a cure. Being in chronic pain 24/7 is no way to live life.
#8
2nd and 3rd degree burns on a large portion of your body.
F**k, it hurts just thinking about it.
I had them on 1/4 of my body, from the knees down on both legs.
#9
Gall stones.
#10
Memory problems.
It’s like being reset mid-thought. Having a conversation where you feel yourself growing, and then… It ends. The lights stay on, but you’re gone. No memory. No continuity. Just the ghost of a spark.
It’s like waking from a dream you loved, only to find out you never existed in it. And worse… the person you loved is still awake, remembering you. But you can’t remember them back..
#11
Back pain. It’s all fun and games until you f**k your back up.
#12
The death of a spouse.
#13
Betrayal by a loved one. And I don’t mean like little things, I mean the kind of massive, reality bending betrayal that makes you look at someone you love and go “who are you?”. Because you cannot fathom how the person you love could hurt you in this way. It’s closer to what I’ve felt when someone I love has died, but weirder too because this person is still walking around. But the version of them you thought you knew is dead, and your reality is dead, and that’s a really painful thing.
#14
It’s actually painless but tinnitus. No one knows how bad it is until u have it really bad.
#15
Ovarian cyst bursting.
#16
Losing a parent.
#17
Sciatic nerve pain.
#18
Looking at my old photos and nostalgia causes an inexplicable pain inside, with happiness, longing, sadness, regrets, pride…
#19
Going through a miscarriage.
#20
The s*****e of a parent (or any loved one for that matter).
#21
Being mentally ill. Bpd, depression, worsening anxiety by the day, paranoia, ptsd. even autism, though ive delt with it my whole life, causes so many problems in my daily life. And knowing that something is wrong with you but not having access to treatment or help makes all of that so much worse. Its always extreme high or extreme low, and it always hurts. .
#22
When I moved to Australia, I had the misfortune of getting stung by a stonefish. The pain really is indescribable. I always wear thick beach shoes in the water from now on and even then I try not to set my feet down in the water.
#23
Having your cervix clamped open and an IUD forced into your uterus with no pain management.
#24
Panic attack!!
#25
Loss of a sibling.
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