I have always wondered about pain, and the meaning of pain
both physical, and the mental
how it intrudes upon consciousness, and shapes the very thinking of a person
how it constructs one person’s reality so different from another’s
the pain, disease, a chronic ailment
long term suffering, it could just be obesity
but the physical shaping of one’s mind and attitudes
is there a great release when it is all over;
like a long awaited childbirth;
life giving birth to something Noble
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Ideas Man 3 
Why do we not treat pain adequately?
Do you know the cause of psychosomatic ills, chronic pain, irrational behavior and emotions? It is the reactive mind. Learn to control it! Read Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard.
Or save time and read about Xenu in the Wikipedia. Also science fiction by L. Ron Hubbard.