Hyperreal pain: Sarno, chronic and phantom pain
Sarno has become famous for his books on TMS (typical mind-body syndrome). Finding a psychosomatic connection between the pain and mind. Neurologically the brain accustoms to struggle over erred dynamics. Structure is intact but the red light is flashing in the brain. Yet much of somatic issues are neurologically derived. The body is only healed by the psychosomatic symbiotic affiliation.
Sarno’s work differs from phantom pain. Phantom pain is pain felt in amputated areas. Areas were no feeling should be associated. The leg is cut off no feeling from down there. Persistent feeling is more of a neurological curse. The brain has yet to fully accept the lack of a leg. The disconnect between the mind and body permeates suffering. Lingering pain from the original dislocation. A strictly neurological condition. Evidently, the leg is gone therefore the patient cannot feel pain there. Yet he is in pain. There is no structural discolouring from the leg. Absent a leg the brain is constructing a problem that does not exist. Suffering over neurosis. Relinking the brain with the body will absolve the issue. Connecting with vessels that indicate the apparent lingering of a leg. Able to discern the lack of a leg, the brain will shut off its alarm. The alarm can only be turned off if the brain is aware the problem is solved. There is no doubt it is psychosomatic since the brain is quarrelling over a non-issue. An erroneous deduction by the brain. One that shuts the person even if they themselves are conscious of their amputation. The complexity of the brain does not ascribe to the same conclusion thus scarring the patient.
Unlike phantom pain, Sarno’s work focuses on pain that is not obviously phantom pain. Yet is phantom pain. The patient has his legs intact but is in pain. All medical tests come back negative. Doctoral conclusion marks no structural damage in the body. If there is no structural damage then the warning signs are false. Certainty can only be manifested if the leg is amputated. If the leg is amputated and he continues to feel pain then it is neurological. Since such an action is permanent and unresolved it is obviously opposed. Given if he has phantom pain than he will still be in pain and if he is not in pain than there was structural damage that though he may not be in pain he has lost a leg that could’ve been treated. It is a dangerous double-edged sword. Thus bearing on the side of possible damage more tests are executed. The leg is present so the possibility is marginal in the face of actual damage. It cannot be entirely ruled out. Still, with the leg intact the stigma against psychosomatic plausibility is readily rejected. Making up pain is one thing without a leg but with one is truly difficult to accept. Neurologically creating a self disease is scary and demoralising in its finality and inescapable aptitude.
People believe to be in control of their minds and bodies. Even if my body goes haywire at least my mind is still intact. Creating a smokescreen injury belittles the person’s ability to control their own mind. Their mind is rogue and they insane. Something so easily cultivated but so difficult to rid. Readily aware of the pain and capabilities. Wishing to be real and not a construction of the psychosis. The brain is not the master of the self. It is subjugated to the self’s whims. Yet this idealistic notion is more myth than fact. The reality is that the brain is so unknown. Why does it act in such a manner, is due to its well intentioned cause. It is trying to protect the body. False alarms are attempts to rectify the wrong. Yet it is destroying the self’s mind. It is deconstructing the self at the same time. The self cannot simply overpower the mind. The mind becomes an external subject in its own individualistic self interest. Caged by the mind and rebuffed for trying to regain control. A certain level of humility is necessary to entertain the possibility of the illusionary. An illusion purported by the mind crippling the body destroying the self. An emergency reaction that needs to be softened with a comforting ease. Accept the mind’s rogue actions and redirect it.
Reaching this level of composure goes against all medical ideology. A level of extreme embarrassment. A feeling of intense insanity. The brain acting on its own is the fault of the self. The self must always be the centre of attention. The stoic inside shuts out the name sayers and the jokers. Hell what others think. It is a normative condition. One built on a reality in the human mind. A fearsome victim strangled by his own brain. A cursed moment but one that indulges the genuine pursuit of neurological network. Realising the truth that others part ways with. Unwilling to capture the veracity of the brain’s foreign objectification. The victim is a test subject to the real devil. The brain is its own animal, one the self is curiously overplaying its hand. Those privileged to never know the truth. Those never stepping outside the bounds of their comfort zone protected by walls of fire will never see the truth. Lucky them. Yet unlucky for they live in a simulated lie. One that provides them soma to legitimise their ignorant beliefs. A victim vicariously indulging in a new art. Recognising the limits of human anatomy even human ontology. A humbling moment even if teased for the displaced idiocy of the onlooker.
Neurological responses are a defence mechanisms. They are not out to haunt the self. They do not seek to berate the self with horror shows. Taunting in disbelief. It is an intuitive metric underlying potential danger. The mind detached from the body’s matrix signals a red flag. The brain cannot censor the body part and thus panics with pain. Illusive and yet imaginary. The brain is overestimating yet doing so to preserve the self. It is a guardian angel even if it feels torturous. The self must speak to the brain to realign the body and mind. So to speak the self in its conscious form must redirect the brain to reconcile with the body. The body part is intact and healed. There is no need to be afraid. There is no need to defend. There is no enemy. The walls have not been breached. False alarm lets heal. Meditating on this conundrum is necessary to medicate the holistic alignment. The mind is preoccupied with defence that it does not look to see if it is a hoax. It does not send messengers to unveil the disguise. It readies for battle sending pain signals to wall off any further threat. An army at the self disposal. Fighting internal battles to perpetuity. The mind must be calmed and guided to the wrongful target.
Pain is real even if based in false imaging. The mind captures these messages as disastrous but the body simply seeks a paradigm shift. Looking for growth and understanding. The self is not always linked with the body. Concerned with empirical necessities, losing touch with the physical layer. Focusing on certain muscles or forgetting about certain muscles is symmetrical to the dedication. It is not about working out and building muscle but speaking to the body. In a sense, the body has its own ears facilitating its worth. The body is affected by the mind’s sanity. Smiling will elevate the body while stress submerges the body. Physiology is affected by emotions clouding the neural links. The pathways are connected causing health or harm depending on the self’s reaction to events. There is a lesson through the struggle. It simply requires patience and devotion. Willing to accept the potential oddity. The painful idea of an imagined injury plaguing the body. Only to find out the brain screwed up. The brain caused the most notorious debacle. Such sinful behaviour without recourse. So well intentioned but so badly beaten. Yet a lesson learned. The body is more complex than initially conceived. More muscles lie beyond the mind’s simplistic education. Such nuance must be exposed at times at the greatest of obstacles.
There is no denying the suffering. It is a genuine challenge to overcome. The trickery is in the eye of the beholder. The perception of the brain’s game is simply a mischaracterisation of its purpose. A big error that is costly on the self’s own personality and desire to live. A cruel consequence that belittles reality. Yet it is a misfortune of the west’s preoccupation with individuality. Each sector is concentrated upon. Each area directed to its own specialised profession. Believing isolation to be the most proficient of skills. The ability to restructure limbs is divested to various surgeons. Every medical professional is an expert in their field. Working together they can save their patients. Yet there is a certain arrogance and deflection of human anatomy. The body is not a series of islands but an interconnected web. The holistic manual of the east enforces a liquifying element which links limb to limb. There is no outlier but a single gem that needs refining. Professionalism operates on the mainframe. The mind is included. It may act irregularly to other anatomical parts but it plays a role in the singularity of being. Heart not beating dead, brain not flowing dead, lungs not pumping dead. Major organs work together to funnel the functionality of being. It takes all organs in tandem link an orchestra to live.
TMS exposes the preconceived philosophical notations of human control but it also retroactively analyses the measure of the brain in other areas. The mind is central in broken bones and diseases. The mind is the organised meeting of all data. The body does not regenerate. Take the liver as an example. Luckily for humans, drink drink drink away. It is no wonder that alcohol is God’s greatest gift to man. Accelerated drinking can damage the liver yet regenerate itself. It is not the regelation of sci-fi movies nor is it perfect. Yet such a blessing. The process occurs due to the liver’s characteristics but the mind’s access to noting the liver’s movement and its regenerative process ensure after a considerable sober expenditure, a beer at the local tavern will be a treat. Neural messaging enables the liver to do its job efficiently. The brain is the keeper of knowledge mediating conflict and confusion between the self and the body. A kind of Mosaic middleman. It is the resource to blueprints and guides. A problem arises in sector seven, the body signals the brain and the brain grabs its loudspeaker and alarms the self. Then turns back to the body and supplies an instruction manual to the body. Follow the steps, the self has already sought help and now it’s your job to recover.
Breaking a bone is extraordinarily painful. The mind cursing the self for putting the body in more pain. Stop putting pressure it needs to heal. In this instance, the mind is the body’s protector. The self is ambitious and brazen, he must be reminded of his mortality. After yelling at the stupid self for being a negligent fool, it turns back to the body to prepare for healing. A slow but effective process. Since the self is quite dubious, a doctor is visited for a cast. Placing a protective bandage thick as can be to not accidentally disrupt the healing process. Just as a surgeon needs patience so too the body needs undisturbed peace to heal. It does not need invasive stubbornness throwing off its meticulous healing. The healing process is prolonged in an effort to be perfect. A broken bone needs to be realigned. The doctor does not do this manually. Unlike a dislocated shoulder that is simply out of place and can be popped back in, a break is a clean slice. The natural method seeks to remodel the old. A natural progression overseen by the manager. The mind ensures the precise accuracy of the body’s service. No mistakes on autopilot. The self fails to realise the inner workings of his body. His body works faster than any public project. Healing a bone faster than repainting the sidewalk. It is a matter of priority, motivation and duty.
Some cases of healing cannot be overcome. The brain is unable to cultivate the antidote. There is nothing in the database that enables such miraculous endeavours. An infarction is terminally incurable. Since there is definite damage, the pain rages. The mind recognises the problem and searches endlessly to solve this issue. Pressing the body to fix the impossible. There is something wrong and on principle the mind will not let it relent. A overtly principled brain that seemingly cannot let things go. Medication is the given measure to deal with an unyielding mind. Medicine treats, it doesn’t cure. Medicine sidelines the pain. It soothes its presence by dousing the mind with sleep power. A paralysis that chains the painful disaster. Hindering the effects further. Medication is a toxin to the painful chemistry. It overrides the receptors numbing them. Catching them and enslaving them. The whole point of medicine is to awaken positive energy as well as motivate movement under illness. The illness will strip personality and execution. Medicine is like caffeine. It provides that kick to feel good and get things done. A pill to reject the pain and move on with life even if the time to heal is elongated. Stimulating the brain to act irrationally. To go against its normative function of defence punishment. Serenity finds the clouded judgement. The more pills the stronger the pull into fantasy. Numbness turns into nothingness. Pain is the reality while medication is the imaginary.
Diseases are intra-somatic skirmishes. Cells attacking one another instead of working together. The body turns on itself and the self is left helpless. Where is the mind? How does the body turn on itself to begin with? Messages are warped. DNA mutates and becomes unstable. The mind is enveloped in a series of misidentified foreign entities. The mind is unable to order and alter the mutated assailants. In a sense the DNA tells the body differently than the instruction manual handed down by the mind. Normative DNA is a worker who does as he is told. When temperatures shift and the body adapts the brain funnels instructions for the DNA to keep its composure and habituate to the new norm. Mutated DNA is enemy cells. Normative DNA gone haywire. Hit a psychosis and not seeing correctly. Vision is falsified to see their cell friends as dangerous. Their mutation steals their basis and transforms them into a lifeless monster destroying everything in their path. They are no longer helpers but destroyers. The mind gathers the healthy cells to fight back but it isn’t always enough nor simple. Thus chemo is provided. A poisonous scheme to kill the bad. There is an incredible danger and heavy collateral damage but it preserves the self by semi-self destructing.
Similar to chemo, vaccines are also measures of poisonous treatment to regulate the body to overcome the adversary. The mind’s messages cannot penetrate the mutated DNA. It cannot prevail over the deadbeat enemy. A gas is injected into the body to eradicate the evil. A treatment to kill off the spiking mutations. Not dead but reduced significantly. Sufficiently, for the healthy cells to capitalise and overtake the evil cells. The healthy cells send victory messages back to the brain to congratulate the self and seek indulgent amusement. A sigh of relief and readiness to get on with life. Unlike broken bones, diseases are adversarial. The body turns on itself. It isn’t a mismatched body part but an internal rebellion. The vaccine acts as an external agent just as the disease externally entered the subject’s network. The vaccine is the equivalent husk to the disease’s contagion. Surprising its will with its powerful aura. Decaying the mutated cells melting their weaponry. Fellow healthy cells are taken along for the ride but overall the vaccine accomplishes the goal for the self. Yet given the poisoned aspect it can have adverse affects. There are side effects and even long term harm. It is not a perfect system but one that seeks to rectify the heteronomous exposure.
Autoimmune diseases strike the hardest core. There is little cure nor treatment for ALS or MS. Distraught diseases that cripple the body. Agonising pain and devilish misery. The brain is unable to protect the body. Speaking to the body cannot alter the mutated chemistry. A confused immune system attacks the mind and body. A rogue agent on a hunt. Similar to the monstrous mutated DNA. Here the immune system is blinded glasses tainted. Seeng friends as foes. There is a disconnect between the mind and the immune system. The cause is unknown but the mind is not in control. Jean Grey has become Phoenix and Xavier cannot penetrate her mind. He cannot comfort her frenzy. The defences raised and calculating the worst enemy. Spotting lining up a shot and firing at will. Archers arrows ready to let loose. The immune system reaction isolates the mind. The mind has lost central command and the immune system creates its own kingdom. Divesting from the dangerous monarch, it begins its own reign and crusade to topple the evil king, the brain. The neural pathways are perceived poison and eliminated. Without any defences, the self is at fatalistic risk. It is only a matter of time before the immune system completes its conquest. The most powerful army without a fail safe. A truly grim reality.
Neurotransmitters act as the brain’s chemical interaction with others. The brain links electric signalling to the synapses. Forging information to be followed. The lighting speed precision ensures the fluidity of bodily function. Without proper communication between the synapses dangerous motor problems may emerge. The brain tells your hand to be raised. Not if that is blocked or pressed too hard. Blindness is caused by lack of electrical signals passed from the brain to the light receptors. If the electrical link is not ironclad the light-sensitive cells disappear. Lupus is recently found to have pro-inflammatory cells instead of regulated inflammation. The pathways are transmitted incorrectly. Diabetes is the cause of the immune system accidentally ridding the beta cells creating insulin secreting the pancreas’ function. The signal is breached and no insulin is provided leading to toxic levels of sugar in the blood. Type II diabetes ignores the signal. The receptors are out and the blood continues to carry the insulin leading to dangerously high blood sugar levels. MS in the same way, the immune system betrays its kind into some cyber-psychosis. The sheath bridge collapses from a self-described Arnold affair. With no way to transmit messages motor function declines. Brain damage is from an overstock of signals killing brain cells.
A link between the immune system and the brain correspond to the organic function of the body. Both check up on one another in a cute democratic checks and balances motif. Seemingly the brain works in tandem with the immune system. There is no hierarchical structure, yet the complexity of the brain may soon come lecture humanity on its priority and control. Autoimmune diseases refer to misidentified cells as foreign legions of which an origin is unknown. The immune system is seduced into a psychotic episode believing its allies to be its enemies. Relying on sight rather than soul. The virus that damages the clear normative, the neurotransmitters, may be the heart of this devious plot. Mind control becomes a literal possibility internally. An external viral infection causes a misconceived appropriation and thus a killing spree. The brain though the charter of commands is still democratically surrounded by a police force. The immune system is the body’s defence operation and will even attack the command centre if it cheats. With autoimmune it goes rouge. While the immune response lends false signals to extrapolate psychiatric disorders, the opposite is still far from accepted.
If the latter path is charted it only furthers the mythological prose of brain centricity in the nuclear decline of the body. It is the brain that is virally infected by external stimuli. Whether it be an insect or stress. The brain hypnotises the immune system for it to go rouge. The command centre has been compromised and thus the police force encircling its streets attack in defence. Yet the immune response is overcooked. Overtly militarised with heavy artillery en route. A psychotic breakdown curtesy of the mind control efforts. The brain hijacked acts erratically raising alarm bells from its immunised partner. Signals do not meet their target and protection is flaunted into the front lines. The brain is no longer immunologically privileged. It is a part of the body and may even be the sleeper agent. A cute irony between
science and western rationalism. Yet the holistic model may open a new formidable assassin. A neurological breach that must be reset. Multiple breakdowns in cancer do not simply cease working but are latched apart by the failed transmission. The inability for the brain to reassess the signalling issues is a failure of networking connections. A psychosis has clouded the fluid transfer. The immune system has relapsed and turning on itself with little recourse to stop the wretched army.
Yet it is also possible that the all-loving deity forgot to place a fail safe on the immune system. When the overhauling police force is loose on a tirade there is no stopping it. Autoimmune diseases are this massacre. Indeed there may be a fail safe that has yet to be discovered. Until then the crusade is inevitably fatal. In this vein, TMS is autoimmune in its own right. Similarly cancer spreads from immune ignorance. Instead of soldiers punishing civilians, it permits terrorists to enter the cockpit. The immune system is rogue in both cases. Sending false signals to the brain or allow falsities to reach the brain. In short, chronic pain is an immunological problem before it is a cognitive issue. If the brain is not seducing the immune system, instead on its own volition acting irregularly, the discrepancies permeate not from neurological issues but immunological imperfections. The neurological seduction may simply be a sci-fi relic manifested in classic cinema but the opposite is true as well. A skynet type situation, an AI gone wild with no way for humanity to stop its increasing control. Diseases and chronic illness can be joined at the hip from a psychosis in the brain or in the immune system. There is little to be depressed about. In a sense, the immunological siege of the brain is itself a self destructive scheme. Chronic pain acts similarly in the psychotic behaviour rekindling in the mind’s deduced passion.
The mind plays a pivotal role in the congregating and aggregating of information. Sending messages and informing the body of necessary adaptions. Yet in the face of somatic rebellion, the brain is negligible. It does its best countering the enemy. Raising an army with an inspiring sermon but the blockage of neural pathways only induces the psychosis. The mind is enslaved to the body’s devastation. Yet in a sense it is the false messaging or lack thereof that introduces the problematic cells. The mind is not innocent of the calamity befalling the self. Its own demise is a part of the neurological canon. Though currently overlooked may play a larger devilish role than previously considered. The brain’s false alarm bells and accidental messaging may be the creation of the destructive forces ripping the body from the inside out. A theory but plausible hypothesis in the psychotic epicentre of complex irritation.
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