Girl Unable to Feel Pain

[Jack_Dawson]

Trippy. Probably not a good thing but then again it might come in handy during torture.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/11/01/painless.child.ap/index.html

[trotsky]

1. Few people with this condition survive past young adulthood.

Not being able to feel internal pain either means you won't be tipped off if a correctable condition could be caught in time.

Plus just the tissue damage that can occur when you won't be able to feel discomfort from sitting in one position for too long.

A curse I wouldn't wish upon anyone.

[sarahope]

2. feeling psychological pain

Are there people who are unable to feel emotional or psychological pain? If so, I wonder if it negatively impacts them.

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Actually yes

a friend of mine has a child who feels no emotions whatsoever. Apparently a brain injury at birth. The child, now an adult, is normal in every other way, but unable to feel or express love, hate, etc. A really cruel thing for a mom to have to handle.

[Kanary]

5. Yes. I believe they're called "sociopathic"

or a close approximation thereof.....

:)

Kanary

[Ladyhawk]

7. LOL...just what I was going to say. You beat me to it!!! nt

[Kanary]

8. Aw, go ahead and say it...... and mention *..... ^_^

:hi: Ladyhawk!

Kanary

[Krupskaya]

4. I know this woman and her child...

...And it's a little beyond "trippy." Jayzus.

[Midlodemocrat]

9. My goodness

aren't we judgmental? Since you don't know my friend, nor her child, I will take your comments with a grain of salt...oh and by the way, this particular case has been written up in the New England Journal of Medicine by her child's doctors at Duke.

[ComerPerro]

6. I thought this would be a story on Laura Bush and her perscription drugs

Her vailums, vikodins, xanax, prozac, whatever else she might be on. Because she is on something.


(clears throat).

But seriously, this is an interesting story. Sometimes people think it would be nice to not feel pain, but those sensations are there for a reason.