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Swearing 'helps to reduce pain'

by thomps | July 13, 2009 at 02:47 am

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Wants to reduce pain??? Scientist have suggested swearing can help to reduce pain. On average, the students could tolerate the pain for nearly two minutes when swearing compared with only one minute and 15 seconds when they refrained from using expletives.

A study by Keele University researchers found volunteers who cursed at will could endure pain nearly 50% longer than civil-tongued peers.

They believe swearing helps us downplay being hurt in favour of a more pain-tolerant machismo.

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nagba

at 02:51 on July 13th, 2009

or just concentrating on something else might help as well... :P

Uwe Paschen

at 04:02 on July 13th, 2009

That would not work in Japan. One has to find another way. I think it is more a question of habits since some cultures do not need to swear in order to reduce pain, they do Yoga or meditate. More peaceful and less offensive.

sivakaran

at 08:30 on July 13th, 2009

I agree. People have different ways of venting out their frustration. Also, the swearing may not be the best method as people might take it offensive.

Anyways, good luck with all your methods :)

158

at 07:42 on July 13th, 2009

well,

$@&^& (^$#@* **^%$# +=*^%$ &%#@!! &^!!#$

I feel much better.

enlargetom

at 10:29 on July 13th, 2009

Added some more images to increase the interest of all visitors....

R.N. (not verified)

at 10:35 on July 13th, 2009

I think it is demons that cause people to curse & swear. I've seen people start talking to themselves and stuff, too. I think they do it when hurt but also when a really good person or an angel gets closeby, or if their bad words can be turned into something hurtul for someone else close by. Evil spirits also like to hurt people, and the pain makes it difficult to be self-controlled and do what's right, like when the kids say mean things about a drunk not knowing that one of their parents has an alcohol problem, so it hurts that kid inside. -- Stuff like that. And some kids got yelled at a lot, so angry, cursing intimidation hurts kids and people who grow up with that sort of thing, too.

cyn.khoo

at 02:02 on July 14th, 2009

Maybe it's not so much swearing, exactly, as having an outlet to express the pain that also helps distract you from it. The experiment might potentially have similar results if they allowed people to repeatedly & angrily yell out non-swear words (like "fudge" or "sock").