Elderly man gets hit in the head with his own wine bottle by two muggers on Chicago train after confronting him at 2am. Black on Asian, so none of the usual suspects will care.

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[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Have you tried the Buddhist method of lying to yourself that the pain is just an illusion.

It's far from perfect but surprisingly effective.

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I didn't realize that was Buddhist in origin, but yes, I do use mindfulness as well as disassociation. The later isn't recommended, so I don't do it much, but when I've been up four or five days, idgaf.

I try a lot of different things, doing something even if it doesn't work that well is much better than just sitting there and suffering. The acupuncture seemed to help, although what I do is probably more accurately called microneedling.

[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Not Buddhist in origin but popularized by the Tibetan monks that do the whole freezing mountain meditation shit. Disassociation is bad though, you don't want to disassociate yourself from feeling, you want to disassociate the pain from yourself. It only works so long as it's not excruciating but there's benefit to telling yourself the pain is not so bad to stop you from doing the things you want.

Granted having painkillers also helps greatly.