- As a kid I did not think in my head. But it hurt...
In absence of necrotic damage we consider that pain has a lot to do with learning. The brain learns to make mistakes, to unnecessarily activate the areas responsible for pain perception.
When leaving the doctor’s office, logically the sufferers will meditate about what they heard and their brain will present all kinds of objections in its tendency to uphold standards that have prevailed so far. A common objection is that of childhood.
"Kids do not think, but they feel pain, so they don’t feel pain due to their ability to think..." "I had pain as a child, so everything that this doctor is saying doesn’t really convince me..."
The child's brain thinks from the moment it starts existing, it processes all the huge amount of signals that arrive to its neurons to organize them, to attribute meaning, predict consequences of every action. All of this happens, at first, in the "womb", a protected place, presumably with no dangers and, therefore, no pain.
As soon as the creature leaves the womb to the extra-uterine world, uncertainties, risks, weaknesses, fears projected from an alarmist brain begin. The copying function of our neurons, the mirror function, reproduces motor patterns of what it sees, attributing emotional relevance.
Genetics imposes its law. The human brain is an imitator. It’s dictated by genes. The child's brain picks up what is happening around and builds programs influenced by outside events and copies the adults’ behaviours of response.
The anguish of the parents eases the anguish of their creatures. The use of painkillers is contagious.
- The child has migraine. It's genetic. It was inherited from you.
It makes no sense analyzing the effect of growing up exclusively by genes. If there is a time when there is somatic fear and dependence on what caregivers do and say, it is childhood.
A biologically alarmist brain raised in an environment of caregivers which were indoctrinated in the sensitizing concepts and practices of contemporary culture on pain is likely to generate biologically unjustified switch-ons.
The brains of children make mistakes in their practices. It is essential that caregivers help them be correct, banishing the somatic fear, enhancing self-control and minimizing dependence on external therapeutic actions.
There are children with migraine, fibromyalgia, atopic dermatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies ... that’s logical. The brain is learning.
- There are migraine and fibromyalgia in children... so...
It is concluded, in my opinion wrongly, that the presence of these sufferings in childhood is an argument that contradicts the thesis of those that defend the learned, cerebral origin and strengthens the thesis of the disease.
The brain is plastic, namely, vulnerable, especially in childhood. Let’s take care of the children's learning. Let’s be afraid to them cultivating biological fear, expressed through symptoms. Let’s not interpret them as evidence of disease when there is no evidence of it, but as a mistake of the process of learning.
If we promote the idea of illness and struggle to get an external solution, a therapeutic one, we will turn physiological errors of the child’s brain into horror. We will condemn our children to something worse than disease: unjustified suffering, limitless, irrational, misunderstood, hopeless, even despised.
Think. The child's brain thinks... copies.
