If you find yourself swearing at your chronic pain, you might actually be helping yourself feel a bit better. Research supports that cursing like a sailor could actually help you with pain tolerance, according to a CNN article published on Tuesday.
The evidence on swearing dates back more than a decade. A 2009 study found that participants were able to submerge their hand in a tub of ice water for longer when they used their swear word of choice versus using a neutral word they would use to describe a table.
The finding suggests when participants unleashed some aggression by cursing, it triggered a fight-or-flight response, which can have a pain-lessening effect.
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