User talk:Anthonyhcole/Sandbox

In this essay's first section I tell you how pain makes me autistic. It's not finished. I'm still thinking through an important element: the effect of testosterone level on society's response to people in pain.

In section two, I assert there is a thing called "distress" which accompanies all unpleasant emotions, homeostatic feelings and social feelings and, regardless of its context, whether it is found in association with pain, rejection or fear or any other feeling, distress is one phenomenon, and it is generated in one distress network in the brain. I assert distress generates a cluster of cognitive, affective and social harms and this cluster of harms is found in all instances of distress, regardless of its cause. And I discuss the difference between feeling pain and suffering from pain.

In the third section I explain that the feeling of pain — feeling its location, intensity, quality and duration — in me, through inuring, is erased, leaving its distress and all the harms associated with distress intact.

I have to

• explain the testosterone thing, and

• find sources for my claim that most/all cases of functional mental illness display distress and its cognitive, affective and social harms, and this cluster of harms is often the most disabling aspect of mental illness, and

• Make the case that all distress produces this toxic triad