What is pain anyway?

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Permalink Reply by Pete & Lorraine on February 17, 2010 at 1:49pm

Just a thought.
Women tend to be more in touch with their emotions and feelings where as men tend to stonewall. Have you worked with men who are more effeminate in their nature or who are more in touch with their feelings and emotions.

Pete

Peter Bateman & Lorraine Gleeson said:

Hi Rene
Women being the nurturers tend to go the doctor more often either for or with the kids as well as them selves, they are used to following instruction given by the doctor, and of course they tend to be more intuitive, intuition may be the key, where as men I guess tend to lead give instruction plus the added macho image. When Lorraine needs a subject to go into hypnosis for one of her students he had to do an assurance test, in this case he put my right arm on an imaginary pile of cushions and bucket in my left hand, while he "filled it with wet sand" I know what was supposed to happen and the reason why, to prove I was in hypnosis, however I "held on" to that imaginary bucket until my arm was shaking with the strain, and I don't understand why! Was I testing my strength? It wasn't a competition or a strength test but I didn't want to put that "bucket" down
That's my theory.

Pete

Permalink Reply by Pete & Lorraine on June 27, 2010 at 3:46am

Being a part time care worker I find myself working with cancer clients. I have just started working with a client who has bladder cancer. Having recently watched a clip from James Tripp who got a heroine addict to reduce his withdrawal symptoms, I used the same technique on my client, as when I arrived he was in great pain, I got him to see the pain change it's colour and shape move it around then crush it. I then used what I watched on James Tripp's clip 1 to10 where is the pain on that scale, I got him to raise his arm to the point on the scale (he had already reduced it) and suggested that as his hand dropped the pain would drop at the same pace. He was stunned as he didn't believe in this stuff, he would normally wait for the doctor to come round to give him Morphine, but he had done it himself and he had been like that for 5 hours.
Hopefully this may pop into your head if you need to deal with a similar situation

Pete

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