Dropping the F-Bomb Increases Pain Tolerance

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Fuck yeah! I knew there was a reason I dropped the f-bomb so often!

LONDON — Can’t help but shout an expletive every time you stub your toe? Don’t feel too bad, you may actually be doing yourself a favor. A new study finds that swearing when injured has a measurable effect on pain tolerance. In fact, dropping the F-bomb specifically when in pain increases tolerance by up to 33%.
The study, led by a group of language and psychology experts in the United Kingdom, explored how effective established, new, and invented swear words can be in increasing pain tolerance and pain threshold.
https://www.studyfinds.org/dropping-f-bomb-increases-pain-tolerance/

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I did my own n=1 study a long time ago when I fractured my patellas while doing a back flip on concrete.
It wasn’t just the f-bomb. Pretty much all screamed profanity worked better than following other two methods that were tried in quick succession:

1.) kung fu like concentration
2.) crying

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If that’s true, the woman down the hall from me when I was giving birth shouldn’t have needed any drug intervention at all…