Dr. Sanjay Gupta
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First of all, the brain's deciding all this in a split second.
And then it's starting to take all these other things into account.
You know, has this happened to you before?
Did it hurt last time it happened to you?
How much did it hurt?
Any history of depression, anxiety, all these different things come into play.
That's the thing.
When I started writing this book, I thought I was pretty smart on this because, you know, 25 years I've been taking care of patients with pain and I learned a lot.
And, you know, it's a fine line trying to navigate how to teach people about pain versus just treating their pain.
Your brain is now deciding this is a more significant injury.
Got it.
That's right.
Okay.
Pain is an alarm system in many ways.
Yep.
And deciding then what your experience is going to be.
Got it.
Well, they're touching your hand in the back as well.
So they're basically trying to get you to correlate the dummy hand with your hand.
Okay.