PAIN AS A FUNCTION OF TIME

PAIN AS A FUNCTION OF TIME

The chronological, psychological and suffering of patient are timed to the cycle of day, night, month and years. Technically, when pain is experience within a day, and night, we may say pain is hurt. When such pain is moving into greater months, we may say that pain is pain. Furthermore, when such pain is moving into greater years, then we say pain is suffering.

Suffering can be experienced by development of total difference to what is happening within time and fear of future time. Time is perhaps the most exacerbation of suffering- moving pain towards suffering of a patient in chronological, psychological, and linear.

Hence, I may conclude that suffering of waiting or endurance time is the sum of chronological time, psychological time and linear time.  Mathematically, it is expressed as;

S_t=C_t + P_t + L_t

Where;

S_t = Suffering of waiting

C_t = Chronological time

P_t = Psychological time

L_t = Linear time




REFERENCE
Hardy, Paul A.J.(1997). Chronic Pain Management; The Essential: U.K.