I have a little predicament

[MidnightAsaph]

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What types of pain are there?

Being a philosophical writer, I ponder pointless stuff, and in my novel I'm exploring the different types of emotional pain that result in changing a person. I'm trying to come up with six concrete types of "pain" that affect a person, but recently, I've been stumped.

I was hoping to discuss this. Please help me out here.

The best I have is:

1. things involving the "ego". Jealousy, bad self-esteem, etc.
2. fear
3. loss (items, people, purpose)
4. empathy (kind of altruistic, feeling other people's pain.
5. guilt
6. loneliness

This is loose, and one factor might cover a broader sense of specific types of pain than another factor might. For example, loneliness may fit with different examples than empathy may.

Discuss. I'm stumped.

 

[Steven Jackson Action Jackson]

Physical pain can change a person too, definitly. That would probably go with fear though.
EDIT: Lol, I missed the 'emotional' at the end of the sentence. Durr, I'm a hurr.

 

[Frown]

How about overstimulation? You know, when too much stuff is happening at the same time? I think it's a sort of emotional pain.

 

[MidnightAsaph]

Overstimulation? I think it's a cause of pain rather than the pain itself. Overstimulation exists because we don't know if we can get everything done, beat everything we have to face. We fear failure.

So I'd say that's a cause, a specific one, of fear, similar to "pressure". I hadn't thought of it before though, so thanks.

 

[Espy Rose]

Not sure if it'd help too too much, but:
http://www.howtodothings.com/health-fitness/how-to-avoid-mental-pain

The first one on the list is False Knowledge. I thought it could fit under loss, but it's really up to you were it should go if it isn't it's own category.

 

[MidnightAsaph]

That could fit in both fear or loss, I believe. One might fear their belief to be wrong, or they could lose it all together and be lost. Moreover, "they have lost a purpose" spiritually. Though, it can be renewed.

Thanks for bringing that to my attention.