Zero Pain Now Podcast: Pain Facts & Treatment - Back Pain / Body Pain / Fibromyalgia

  There are certain personality traits that are much more likely for people to experience pain. Number one, by far and away, is the perfectionist. Perfectionists strive to be perfect, because they want to look perfect – not to themselves, to other people. That is enraging and really, really difficult. Perfectionists repress emotions, and the end result is pain. The next group are do-gooders, people that are always out to take care of other people. They're the ones taking food to the homeless. They're doing wonderful things, yet it's not okay to have a full breadth of emotions. They have to look like do-gooders, they have to feel like do-gooders. They have to feel good, they have to look happy and peppy, and they're not willing to show the anger. What could be more enraging to somebody who wants to take care of homeless people than that there are homeless people? There are a lot of reasons for do-gooders to be angry, to be rageful. They repress the emotions. That leads to pain. People pleasers. People pleas