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Why do our bodies work against us sometimes?
Topic Started: Jun 6 2015, 03:43 PM (469 Views)
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Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.

This has puzzled me for so long.


Like if you have dandruff or some kind of insect bite, your body tells you that it's itchy and that you need to scratch it...but in doing so that makes the problem worse.
If you were to just go along with what your body tells you you'd have no scalp left with dandruff and would probably have an open wound wherever insect bites were, possibly leading to an infection.


I find that weird, it's not like dandruff shampoo and cream etc for insect bites are something our bodies should understand exists and obviously back in primal days they wouldn't exist at all, there would be no solution...so why does your body basically tell you to make it worse?

There are more examples but my mind has went blank on remembering them so chip in if you can think of another weird thing like that.


Also I know with insect bites it might be a bit different, the whole point could be that they make you itchy and cut open your skin so they can drink your blood or lay eggs there but still your body tells you to do something that will basically never help.
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The idea is to scrape the problem off.
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Steve
Jun 6 2015, 03:43 PM
Also I know with insect bites it might be a bit different, the whole point could be that they make you itchy and cut open your skin so they can drink your blood or lay eggs there
That mental image...

I don't really always understand it either. Generally though itchiness turns to pain long before you actually scrape any skin off (at least for me), so I guess the itch is just to tell you about a problem.
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Our bodies are magnificent things. However they function much like a machine. If a certain chemical reaction happens your body is going to react a very specific way (For most people at least).

Just like if you hit the space bar while in a word document. Your computer is going to perform a very specific action. It's going to create a space (assuming your space bar and computer function properly). The itching sensation might not be created so much as to get us to scratch it, but to bring our attention to the source of it. If something itches bad enough, you are going to inspect it to figure out WTF is going on.

Our bodies give us clear signs of what it wants all the time. Eat Something, Go To Bed, Have Sex, etc. We are just masters of fooling our body. "Oh, I'm sleepy... this Red Bull should fix that."

When you're itching from dandruff or a bug bite. Scratch less and fix the problem more. It's what your body is actually wanting you to do. The sooner you solve the issue, the sooner you'll stop being bothered by your body with that annoying itching sensation.
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Greetings. I will be your waifu this season.

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Jun 6 2015, 05:07 PM
When you're itching from dandruff or a bug bite. Scratch less and fix the problem more. It's what your body is actually wanting you to do. The sooner you solve the issue, the sooner you'll stop being bothered by your body with that annoying itching sensation.
But then why does scratching feel good?

These days we can seek out a solution since there's medicine or a cream for most everything but before that our only option would be scratch it to ease the itch and hope it goes away, even though the scratching would prolong the issue and/or make it far worse.

Even if it's painful the need to scratch can still be there and things can get violently itchy(not sure how else to describe it)

Like the next time you have an itchy nose don't scratch it for as long as you can and your body will be like a crack addict who's not had a fix in weeks screaming at you to scratch it :rofl: course an itchy nose is typically for a non ailment related issue but itching works the same way.

It's like your body wants you to scratch to the point where you're in danger of infection and feel great pain from it in order for you to stop doing it...but why make it get that itchy at all? Have we not evolved enough for our bodies to understand certain itches shouldn't be scratched?
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Because evolution wasn't perfect

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Steve
Jun 6 2015, 06:30 PM
Faylen
Jun 6 2015, 05:07 PM
When you're itching from dandruff or a bug bite. Scratch less and fix the problem more. It's what your body is actually wanting you to do. The sooner you solve the issue, the sooner you'll stop being bothered by your body with that annoying itching sensation.
But then why does scratching feel good?

Oh I know that one.

The sensation of pain you're causing yourself from scratching temporarily alleviates the sensation of itching. It's not that it 'feels good' it's that you no longer itch while you are scratching. This is because your body is now sending a different type of signal other than the itching signal. Scratching an itch is actually really bad for you. But we get a chemical release when we scratch because, as I said before, we are fooling our bodies into thinking we got rid of the itch. When all we've done is cause ourselves pain and our body can't register the itch anymore while pain is going on. SOOOO it rewards us with a 'feel good' chemical release.

Our bodies are dumb sometimes.
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My Dear Melancholy,

In a quick Google search I learn that Endorphins that are released in painful experiences are often perceived as pleasurable. Stress and pain can also stimulate the serotonin and melatonin production in the brain, which transforms painful experiences into pleasure. The release of epinephrine and norepinephrine in pain can also cause a pleasurable 'rush'. Normal human biological response actually supports the complex and mysterious link between pain and pleasure. There is strong evidence of biological connections between the neurochemical pathways used for the perception of both pain and pleasure, as well as other psychological rewards.

Being linked to close together perhaps the human body can't tell the difference or trying to get a quick sensation to counter the pain.
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