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    his or her own mortality. The certainty of the end of life can be very stressful and overwhelming. Many aspects of caregiving, treatment, and pain management are all part of the journey towards the end of one’s life. Many people are unclear about pain and symptom management during the end of life. Some believe that if you choose to medicate for pain then they are hastening or responsible for the death of their loved one. Others believe that all measures should be taken to help prolong their

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    Suffering In The Odyssey

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    honeymoon because they cannot bear the pain of separation. Alternatively, at the beginning of the epic The Odyssey, written by Homer, the hero, Odysseus, forcedly leaves his home, new wife and newly born son to fight in the Trojan war. After twenty years of fighting, Odysseus begins his physically, mentally and emotionally painful nostos home to return to his family. Odysseus experiences different types of pain, but the most challenging proves the emotional anguish of separation from Penelope. Throughout

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    Chronic pain can be mental, emotionally and physically debilitating. Chronic pain affects us on many different levels. Your brain senses pain from sensory, emotional and cognitive angles. The brain is wired to expect severe pain, and it swiftly initiates a strong pain response. Neuropathways rely on past experiences that help the brain deal with similar threats. Our cognitive and emotional responses can jumble our actual pain signals. Similar physiological treatments are prescribed for an emotional

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    The Destructive Power of Pain There are two types of pain that we all experience, physical and emotional (or mental). Physical pain is a signal of the nerves; therefore it is something that is tangible, something that we can prove is there and something that we can feel. Emotional pain is hurt on the inside of one's soul. It cannot be expressed; it is only a feeling in the soul. According to the Christian view, pain makes someone a better person. However, some people disagree with this because

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    What is postoperative pain? “An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage due to surgery… thus pain is what the person says it is, and exists when the person experiencing the pain says it does.” Situational Analysis. Approximately 80% of patients who undergo surgery experience acute postoperative pain. With 75% of these patients report post-operative pain as moderate, severe or extreme 12,96. In adequate post-operative pain management and assessment

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    life, Epicurean philosophers argue that pleasure is the greatest good and pain is the greatest bad. Foremost, for the purpose of this analysis, I must define the pleasure and pain described. Pleasure is seen as the state of being pleased or gratified. This term is defined more specifically by the subject to which the pleasure applies, depending on what he likes. Pain is the opposite of pleasure, which is a type of emotional or physical un-pleasure that results in something that the person

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    The Affect of Stress Essays

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    physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are viewed as threatening or challenging (Ciccarelli and White 2009). Stress differs from person to person and can be experienced in many difference ways. Also, what may be stressful to me may not be stressful to someone else. In this paper I plan on discussing how people can be affected by stress positively and negatively. I will go specifically go over a few ways people are affected by stress; aches and pains you may feel

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    Management Focusing on Acute Pain: A Multidisciplinary Concept Analysis The concept of managing acute pain is extremely significant to nursing as pain is one of the most common problems for which patients seek out health care resources. Pain is a complex and abstract concept that encompasses sensory, emotional, psychological, social, and spiritual perceptions of pain that may occur in combination with physical pain. Pain is difficult to describe and often hard to measure; although, most healthcare

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    Introduction Pain is an adaptive mechanism which helps us learn to avoid dangers, it used to be believed that pain was an emotional state caused by intense stimuli and for 300 years people operated on Descartes single wire theory, that pain is a disturbance passed along nerve fibres to the brain, however, recent research into pain has come up with a more complex theory of nociception and pain. Nociception is a sensory process that provides the signals that trigger pain, whereas pain is the feeling

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    Beauty Is Pain During Anglo-Saxon period, the warfare and division in the region expanded the exile and pain in these elegies in Exeter Book. The separation and banishment arouse great sadness and grief among the people who have in the exile. In all these three elegies, the Seafarer, the Wanderer, and the Wife’s Lament create pain and sorrow through main character to express beauty from these painful experiences. In the Seafarer, a hopeless man is suffering the pain during his duty as a sealer. Burton

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