The Weird Phenomenon That Proves Pain Is All In The Mind | Answers With Joe
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Up to 70% of amputees claim to feel pain in their missing limbs, and we're still not completely sure why. Some of the theories range from nerve damage to crossed wires in the brain to a redrawing of the mind's map. And some new therapies involving simple mirror illusions and cutting edge technology are helping amputees live less painful lives. And it's also making us question the very nature of reality.
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brain: "I can control this robotic arm simply by willing it to move."
also brain: "what the hell is a mirror"
The experiment using a fake hand and a hammer will make you experience pain. What they do is they put a fake hand where your real hand would be and then hide your real hand from your view (usually behind a curtain or something). They pet both hands (real and fake) with a paintbrush the same way making your brain think the fake hand is your real hand because it feels the sensation of the paintbrush (on your real hand) and associates the feeling with the fake hand that it sees being pet with a brush. It takes a little bit but the brain eventually accepts what it is seeing as true. Then without telling you they're going to do it they smash the fake hand with a hammer and you feel it because your brain thinks that your hand just got smashed with a hammer. The mind can do incredible things, even feel fake pain.
The brain doesn't really "know" where your hand is, it makes assumptions. The combination of seeing something touch the fake hand while simultaneously feeling that touch tricks your brain into making the wrong assumption. There's something there that looks like your hand and is feeling what it should be feeling based off visual input... therefore it must be your hand! Your brain loves to take shortcuts. Once your brain figures something out, it pretty much delegates that process to a low priority and instead of analyzing every minute detail it skips over quite a bit, even though it tells you "Of course this is accurate! I did it myself!"... In reality it skipped over a bunch because it was too busy trying to tell you that Epstein and McAfee didn't kill themselves.
Underrated comment
Subjective reality created in the brain survive when it fits reality. Intelligence is the survive of the fittest process for both human and artificial one. If it does not fit, it will not survive.
@@alexoolau the difference between subjective and objective never really clicked with me. Could you rephrase it in a different way?
@@genuinedickies99 subjective is something only created in mind, ideological. objective is something existing outside of human mind, materialistic. example: good or bad is subjective. tall and short are objective. most objective things are measurable. most subjective things are not measurable. Intelligence is often based on subjective judgment until IQ test became available. IQ test itself is measurement of correct answer defined by test maker who might be wrong. In real world test, the person who has most answers correctly fitting reality (or defined by God as correct) are the most intelligent person. Math is God's languages. Its correctness is not based on public opinion. In stock market, each trade between buyer and seller are mental judgment against each other. Only intelligent person gets most judgment correct. So you have this by Warren Buffett. "If you are so smart, how come I am so rich?" - Warren Buffett.
People: What happened to your leg?
Me: I don't know, we didn't really keep in touch after the surgery.
🤣
Hahahaha
I’ve been an amputee for a decade and this made me smile, can’t wait to use it🤣
I’m a paraplegic and can certainly vouch for the fact that the harder I think about moving my legs the more pain I feel. I can actually push it to the point of nausea.
Oh my Gosh!!! I'm sorry that happens & that you lost your limbs.
I highly appreciate your input!
This video was timely tbh as my leg went septic just over a month ago (I accidentally scratched it in my sleep); had I put off seeing a dr. for another hour it would've been amputated.
My empathy & compassion are through the roof with you & again TY for sharing.💗💗💗💗
@Im_Quartz Rad AF ‐ Agreed (re: @Lucas Lindner )
Yikes. I hope you can push it the other way too right?
(As Bill Clinton,) I feel yours pain.
@@joescott noooooo, oh god
As someone who has experienced pretty strong tinnitus for about five years, I can (sort of) relate. I know there is objectively no constant, high-pitched whine in my ear, no sound waves are causing that. My brain is being tricked by the diminished input of information from my damaged ear, and in the absence of valid input, is deciding to just wing it and make something up. Unfortunately, what it “makes up” is annoying af sometimes.
I feel ya on that one, brother 😢. Silence is maddening; I have to keep a fan on at all times or the ringing in my ears is so bad, I feel like my head is going to explode.
Yup.
Joe in the intro is the creepiest guy I have seen all day.
hahaha
It means he acts it so good
Same, but it's only 9am, i have the whole day ahead of me
Yeah, it's so cringe XD
All day? You mean ever right!,?,
I always love how in almost every skit Joe writes himself as the creepy awkward dude
@DSUM That's why we love him.
It made me very uncomfortable. but thats why we are here. well... i mean im here for interesting tidbits, not creepy flirting... but... its a bonus?
You write what you know! Jk, I love Joe.
@DSUM That's Texan with a capital T, you you you Philistine, you.
That's because most of his audience can relate.
Double amputee missing both lower legs. For almost a year after both amputations (happened over a year apart due to trauma and infection), every time I urinated it felt like the foot was waking up after being asleep. Strangest damn feeling. And yes, phantom pain after that any time the residual limb was inflamed due to strain or over use.
So weird.
Cghodnett
LAKA. That is such a weird feeling. My calf and foot burn when I pee, no STD needed. The specificity of the pain is also odd. I can feel the curvature of my toes.
@@mattwenstrom4575 i have had some success stimulating the sciatic nerve (heat / cold / massage) further up the leg. It seems to interrupt the signals causing the issue.
@@mattwenstrom4575 Ok, glad to know I'm not the only piss-weirdo. So when I piss it feels like I'm pissing on my own leg. I check afterward and I'm always dry, I just get the sensation of it. Only started in my 40s. I thought I had a busted nerve in my leg, but after seeing this I'm wondering if it isn't just a busted brain.
Getting old is fun. :(
@@LividImp I get that and I'm 21 and have both legs intact! 🥴 Though to be fair I probably have nerve damage on my feet due to sitting on them for a long time so it's not that far off!
Me: "I've got such a headache"
My dad: "Must be phantom pain"
Underrated
@@carlogaytan7010 Yep. I laughed when I read it.
I love the irony of "1992 called and they want their pickup line back"
It's like... 1992 called and they want their joke format back.
Meta
Don't break the 4th or 5th wall. Dangerous territory. Lol
My brain is explosionated!!
1992 wasn’t a bad year. I don’t know why so many people are down on it? I mean it’s not 2020, right?!?
@@briangarrow448 It was good for me ‐ 2020 is also 2021... I think its only cos the joke of a decade calling really got popular in the early 1990s mb...
But I also saw Public Enemy in 1991 & my teen self gave birth to my beloved daughter in 1992. So it was the golden age of life (except the internet was still green text ‐ which sucked; also waaaaaaay more racist & INSANELY sexist...).
Great music however (as is all music one hears whilst young).
And both Bowie & Prince were ALIVE!!
GD...
Joe, can you do a video on time zones? Specifically, when mankind realized that different locations had different local times, and what caused the creation of time zones?
maybe since the telegraph? 🤷♂️
@@christianmarx3249 Not a bad guess, for a Hollywood entertainer.
A bit late to the party, but time zones were actually created because of trains. Basically every town used to have their own time that might be a few minutes ahead or behind of the neighbouring towns. Before trains there was no need to know the time difference before you went somewhere, because you wouldn't travel fast enough anyways and you wouldn't know when exactly you would arrive. With trains that did become a problem, because they need a schedule for each stop and then a few minutes ahead or below would matter a lot. So they invented time zones to make sure that all train schedules would line up for all towns.
Answers with Joe | with Toe Scott
I really should have changed the title animation to say Answers with Toe.
@@joescott you can still change the thumbnail 🤷♂️
i lolled so hard man
Love this
Bwahahaha 😆😆🤣
Every night, I can feel my leg... And my arm... even my fingers... The body I've lost... the comrades I've lost... won't stop hurting... It's like they're all still there.
Why are we still here? Just to suffer?
Birds in the sky carry these words for me
@@joeywalsh1949 some of us honestly ask this
it hurts so damn much i cant bare it anymorr
I’m gonna make them give back our past. Take back everything we’ve lost. And I won’t stop until we do
As someone with chronic pain, I know all too well how the body can create pain when there isn't a real need for it. My worst pain comes if I don't get enough sleep. It's really weird how the brain & nerves work.
My mind is gone, but sometimes it feels like I'm thinking.
🎯
That was poetry.
Phantom brain
Oof
This might explain Trumpers!
This skit goes to show what an awesome actor Toe- I mean, Joe, is. I'd love to see more of these!
Do we even need to have the Academy Awards next year after that performance?
presented by Penelope and Monica
Rotten tomatoes 🍅
I think we do. Phantom Toe want that good. 🤪
It should win for "Achievement in Toe Acting" so long as Tarantino doesn't release anything before then.
@@timapple6586
But only if it were not missing during the shoot days.
Years ago I had 3 major surgeries in 6 months with a lot of infections. The pain of all this stayed with me for more than 10 years. It was like an echo or a resonance of my nervous system. No pills took the pain away. I had to learn to live with it. I relalized after a time that moving did not make the pain worse or better, it was just there all the time. Life goes on and I had to live with it. Gradually, very gradually the pain subsided. After 25 years since the surgeries I can say I no longer have this pain.
"What all do you do with your Hands, Talk to it in the comments."
Damn Joe don't you do that to me man it's normal OK!
Years ago after a string of bad dentists I pulled my own molar out myself. The relief from the pain was so sudden and extreme that I nearly fainted.
I've never had phantom tooth pain though.
I did this right before Thanksgiving dinner, so I could eat. My family never even knew that I just ripped out my own tooth.
What the actual fuck
"What all of you do with your hands? Talk about it in the comments"
Well I like to play with big, massive...
pianos
Sounds fun, I play with nice, thick, long ...
Guitars
I like to pound on some tight, firm…
Drums
I like to use my fingertips to tickle the...
Ivories.
🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
my gf just asked me to help her out ...
with the the dishes! =(
I'm female and had both my breasts removed almost ten years ago. At the time I thought I was transgender but was mistaken and instantly regretted the surgery. I've largely accepted this by now, but to this day I still sometimes experience phantom pain in the breasts I no longer have. I think for me it's connected to memory and expectation. Because it always correlates to the times I forget that I don't have them anymore, expecting them to be there, and the jarring realization when reality hits. That's when I get a buzz of pain as if I'm briefly stabbed.
Creating positive connotations to my new body, as well as wearing prostetics (ie essentially just a padded bra) helps reducing these painful incidents. Likely because these practices make me less likely to forget reality and expect something that's not there anymore. But just giving it time didn't help, as I did nothing the first six years. I had to do active work to connect with my new body to relieve the phantom pain. I still experience it on occasion, but it's rare now.
Joe. This was gold. I was deeply uncomfortable during the intro 😂😂
Brought back memories of so many creepy dates. Ugh. 🤢
9:45 this reminded me of these stories about people that are learning new skills while lucid dreaming. Someone even claimed they learned how to ride a snowboard only by lucid dreaming about it even though they never stood on one before. While I'm still skeptical that's true I could at least see how mirror neurons could help improve or manifest skills while dreaming, and how you could maybe direct that onto something specific when the you are lucid.
Yay for an intro sketch!!
We need more awkward Joe and phantom toe sketches!
You could tell joe got a real actress, cause usually youtube creator sketches are just their friends/family and are painfully bad. But this wasnt. Even joe was good.
Hows this comment is 19 hrs ago?
@@nistelroji6902 Phantom comment section
Would having both an intro and an outro sketch make us twice as happy? It would be twice the work for Joe, but I think we're worth it.
My dad's brother lost an arm below the elbow on the battlefield during WW2 and felt phantom pains the rest of his life. It was terrible. He had to think in his brain that he was holding his palm out straight and his fingers pulled completely apart and straight in order not to feel pain. As soon as he relaxed that thought, he would have pain in his phantom hand. Bless his heart. He lived that way for 60 or more years.
“So mirror therapy is cool, but it’s very *limbited* “
Caught you again Joe, caught you again
I can digit.
@@randal_gibbons Genius remark! 🤣
Caught me... red handed?
@@joescott I admit, I went out on a limb with that joke
Greatest comment, hands down.
I’ve heard of the whole “we are just a brain in vat” thing before and never gave it much thought. But whenever Joe talked about it, that shit hit me hard and gave me goosebumps. That’s damn near existential depending on how deep you go with that thought
Makes me realise how lucky I am to have a fully functional body.
But do you?
For now...
How much do you want for it?
Enjoy it while you can.
@@joescott is that a threat? 😷
Brain: ahh I don’t know what’s going on so I’m just going to hurt you.
I love how happy Joe looked after the opening skit. You can tell his heart is really in cinema.
This one made me think of an old party trick I read about in OMNI Magazine decades ago. Was hoping you had uncovered it and was going to try it. It's a perception trick they called The Long Nose.
If I remember correctly...Person A sits in a chair, blindfolded. Person B sits in front of Person A, facing the same direction, so A can reach around B's head and touch the tip of B's nose.
Have A, while blindfolded, tap the tip of their own nose for a bit.
Then have A, still blindfolded, reach forward, arm fully extended, around B's head and tap the tip of B's nose. WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING, someone else taps A's nose in rhythm with A's tapping of B's nose.
This is supposed to create the mental perception and sensation in Person A that their nose is as long as their arm. It's supposed to work even if Person A knows what's going on.
....I've never been able to convince enough people to try it though. Only trust in OMNI's reporting that it's a thing.
As a paraplegic, I have a phantom pain in my left big toe ( you can have it, Joe). But I only "feel" the pain if I first think about phantom pain.
So if you was asked to point out where this video hurt you, you'd have an answer!
Thinking about phantom pain causes you phantom pain. But that didn't stop you from watching this video?
What kind of masochist are you?!
@@lonestarr1490 True! My big toe was throbbing the whole time, like it is now.
Everything we experience is in our mind. That doesn’t make it any less real.
But surely there is a difference between a hallucination and something that actually exists independent of my experience of it and that everyone else also experiences.
@@sluxi Yeah, but often when people say "all in your head" the implication is that it's "not as bad". I think that's more what they're referring to. The fact that, yes, it's different, but it's just as important and the experience for the person is the same either way. I have had hallucinations my whole life, but no matter how much I know this - they don't go away and they still affect my life and confuse me. There's a difference, but neither is more legitimate than the other. Brains are just weird haha :)
When he said “what do you do with your hands?” I thought “oh yeah, yo yoing is pretty intricate,” and then he said “perverts.”
I was think knitting and crochet lol
To be fair there are few things more perverted than yoyoing.
spankin it, jackin it, smackity smack
Me, drawing a creature with human anatomy: That's what I use these hooves for!
Him: "Perverts"
Me: ...first of all, you know breasts are a part of anatomy! Second they're not human! 👁️👄👁️
IKR I just like to make things out of clay and paint. Like literally spend all my time working with clay.
I had an experience of "phantom pain" many years ago, in a limb I still have...
I have a medical disorder that causes damage to, and a lot of pain in my joints on a daily basis. Around 10 years ago (give or take) I started having pain in the back of my ankle (which at the start I just assumed was related to my condition). It would become the worst pain I have ever experienced, and gave me a new respect for pain (nothing I've experienced before or since comes close). Over the course of several months doctor after doctor could find nothing wrong with my ankle. The pain got worse over time, and eventually became so bad I seriously considered just trying to cut that chunk of my ankle out.
I finally visited a neurologist at the advice of a friend, and he found 2 disks in my spine had collapsed, and was pinching a nerve. I had spinal surgery to remove bone matter around the nerve, since then this pain was gone. There was never anything wrong with my leg, and even cutting it off would not have stopped the pain...
As bad as the experience was, it actually did have one positive impact which has benefited me to this day: The incident completely recalibrated my pain scale. I still experience joint pain due to my medical issue, but I have no doubt that without having gone though that incident, I would be nowhere near as active I am today.
I thought it was your brain sending out a signal saying “hey yo, you still there” and then when it gets nothing back, it goes “FAAARRRQQ”
When your missing limb literally ghosts your brain
Lol 🤣
" It Never does it in the Bedroom if you want to go in there"? Joe , you can't strike out if you don't Swing the Bat, keep Swinging Bruh. The Intro alone deserves 2 Likes per Person
I love how smart I feel after watching Joe's videos.
Recent above knee amputee ( 05/14/21 ) due to diabetes and developing gangrene. I can still feel the leg and the pain associated with it. My mind still registers the limb like it's still there. At times I catch myself trying to wiggle the toes, crossing legs etc. Last week while not quite awake yet I actually tried to stand without thinking and fell. I felt so helpless all the way down, trying to grab anything I could to stop myself. Didn't work! The thing I am trying to say is It felt like I was making contact with the floor, it was that real. I'm glad I never walked in my sleep!
“Pain is all in your mind”
Kidney stones: hold my beer
Thissssss
Just because it's all in your mind doesn't mean you can control it.
Aaah.... The lovely stones of the kidney.
I've been watching joe scott for a few years now and it never gets old
like an unvaccinated child
I, on the other hand, seem to get grayer by the month.
@@joescott wiser by the video
I absolutely LOVE that you made a video about this topic. I have had RSD (aka CRPS) for over 20 years now. I got it due to a serious fracture from a skydiving accident. RSD is a chronic pain disease that used to be called “phantom limb syndrome” during WWI when soldiers would get a limb blown off but would swear it was still there. Sadly, many of these soldiers were ridiculed for saying this so we don’t have accurate numbers for just how many men this actually affected, but they think it was a lot.
I can’t even begin to tell you what a hopeless and helpless disease this has been over the decades. For me, my RSD started out in one spot on my right ankle, and over time has now spread to my left ankle and now my left hand. This is why I absolutely HATE IT when people try to make the claim that this has anything whatsoever to do with our brains “tricking us”. Ugh 😑!!! That starts oversimplifying things and begins treading into some really murky water.
So, if it’s not “all in my head”, then what is it? Well, it’s a central nervous system disease. The messages don’t even have a chance to reach the brain before that message has gotten all effed up. It actually stops hair from growing in the affected area, the color of your skin visibly changes in that area, for me personally, I don’t sunburn in those areas, my toenails take forever to grow out (that part is nice), my limbs are always freezing- even if it’s a hundred degrees out. The list of symptoms goes on, but those are just a couple of the physical ones that you can visibly see.
When I was first diagnosed, the only treatments available were nerve blocks and pain pills (lots and lots and lots of pain pills). These new treatments give me a whole lot of hope for the future, for people who are just now being diagnosed. To those people, I say: TAKE YOUR RECOVERY SERIOUSLY!!! I had a doctor tell me once “if you don’t use it you lose it”. The guy was a total asshole (Richards as I call them), but his advice truly was spot on. As much as it might hurt sometimes, I still try to walk as much as possible, otherwise the alternative is to be wheelchair bound at an early age.
The injuries to my ankles are most likely too old at this point to be “tricked” into doing anything, because if this were a disease that was simply a matter of “just smile, you’ll feel better”, then I would just go see a shrink, take some happy pills and go back to work so I could be a productive citizen again. But that’s not even close to what this disease is like. It affects far more systems in your body than just your “big toe” (to use the example provided in this video). I am SUPER BUMMED about the level of mis-information about how this disease actually works that is still out there. I mean, dang! if this effing disease just stayed put, if it never affected any of my other organs, if it didn’t cause other, more serious issues in my body, then hell freaking yes I would be out working! I miss the independence. I didn’t go to college just so I could sit in bed all day re-watching Star Trek for the hundredth time (and if these major companies pull it we’ll have some serious words!). Unfortunately, this disease gets worse over time, not better. It spreads throughout the body wreaking havoc everywhere it goes (and it goes everywhere eventually). Paula Abdul has this in her neck due to an injury she got in a plane crack she was in like 30 or so years ago. I have always heard that when it’s that close to tour heart it can cause your heart to stop (true or not, I don’t know, when I heard this, research was still new). This actually wouldn’t surprise me because I’ve had some major issues with my kidneys that are believed to be related to RSD.
So, no, unfortunately, when it comes down to it, with RSD/CRPS, you can’t just “pray the gay away”, and that’s because the “real” issue doesn’t actually *start* in the brain, it starts in your central nervous system. Your brain is kind of the victim here, not the villain. If you want to say something is “tricking” your body, I would argue it’s your CNS as opposed to your brain.
To those who have made it through my little soapbox, I thank you and stay safe ♥️
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It's so similar to feeling sad when my gf and I have a fight and I get depressed when I dont even have a gf.
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@@infinitejest441 True for you?
@@axem.8338it gave me a chuckle
I injured my spinal chord just over a year ago and have dealt with shooting/stabbing leg pain ever since. I wasn’t sure why… now that you’ve said phantom pain can happen to spinal chord injury patients, I feel very validated. 🎉
It looks like Joe's budget has increased a bit with the hiring of an actress.
Thats his wife
That’s MY hoor
@@sayjack ummm Joe's wife is a teacher named Amy. That was Giovannie Cruz in the video. I'm guessing she did it as a favor since they are probably friends.
I'm trying to up the level of the sketches a bit.
@@joescott but your best sketches are the ones where you play all the parts.
There’s a new channel coming up focusing on the paranormal:
Answers with Toe!
Toe Phantom Menace!!! 😱😱😱
the toe bro will be drafting litigious documents shortly
Beats me why Joe didn't heart your comment. 🤔
Joe feeling that Phantom date 👻
My wife had to do a LBKA back in 2017 and her phantom pains were major and lasted a while. They barely happen now, but they still pop up from time to time.
Not going to lie Joe. I was rooting for you in the beginning
Hilarious
He did a mistake while choosing a shirt, everything else was well-done
I have phantom limb pain every now and again on my left foot that was amputated, easily one of the most annoying feelings in the world. Love that you did a video on it.
What do I do with my hands while watching Joe? Hit the like button!
Love in when you are talking to someone about a topic, and a video appears on the topic in your feed an hour later that is well made, interesting and educational. Just a coincidence, no ghost toes involved.
Okay, now I'm curious: is Joe Scott actually missing a toe?
I have the exact same question...
You'd think he would have at least confirmed it on the description. 😀
Count me in.
Same.
#metoo Is that in bad taste
Fascinating topic. Ironically, I suffer from phantom limb syndrome but still have all of my limbs. In my case I had to have a bit of me removed, and a *lot* of my research pre-operatively was that the most common, and incurable, complication and/or downfall of getting that done is that some folks continue to feel pain for the rest of their life as if they still had that piece of their body. All of the literature suggested that one of the potential reasons for this phantom limb syndrome is that the brain and the extremity communicate. If the extremity is in pain, constant, unremitting pain, then when it is severed from the body, this message sent along the neurons continues to be sent, as the last thing that the limb "felt" is the status quo that the brain will continue to accept as reality. In my case, and in the case of the rare surgery I was preparing for, the theory was that if the region experiencing the pain is thoroughly numbed up, so that there is no message of pain, prior to the amputation, then the phantom pain can be eliminated or at least minimized. Unfortunately in my case, the epidural, and the complete saturation of the area with local anaesthetic just didn't work. They expected me to feel no pain, but I came out of surgery in agony, and alas, though missing, I still have unrelenting chronic pain. For the morbidly curious, the part that was removed was my tailbone, so mirror therapies won't help, not even a little bit!
The intro sketch was really good albeit weird! Thank you all for making it!
This is kinda-sorta related; I had a thyroidectomy and neck dissection last year due to cancer, and they cut out a lot of nerves and tissue. Now when I touch my left ear I can feel the sensation under my chin, and vice versa! It’s so frkn weird! And I still don’t have any feeling in parts of my neck/shoulders…
" How do you think I lost it?! "
Joe, my man 😎👍
The most entertaining channel on TH-cam. TH-cam needs people that are ACTUALLY entertaining!
5:42 the tangent cam about how big our hands and mouths are in our brain… mind blown
Whenever someone shows the Sensory Homunculus they never show the figure’s enormous genitals.
You've obviously never had really bad tooth infections or injuries.
I have chronic back pain from stenosis... it's like a massage compared to an exposed nerve in the gum.
Only time I've ever hallucinated due to pain. Watched my laundry crawl across the floor. Didnt even freak me out cause I literally couldn't think. Ruined my brain for days after the nerve died.
I once asked my dentist why when I have dental pain, it is frequently on the wrong side... meaning the issue is on my top jaw, but the pain is in the bottom jaw. He said because the nerve endings from the top and bottom join and go up into the brain together, and sometimes the brain misinterprets which side the pain is on. I have since had a pacemaker installed, and during the healing process, I needed to scratch the surgical site several times every day. After awhile, I started having to scratch the other shoulder in the exact same place... and now I only have to scratch on the other side. I am confident that need to scratch is really due to my left side even though the sensation is that it is needed on the right side.
"They call them 'fingers' but I have never seen them 'fing'."
Oh. There they go.
A real po thead
"fing" is fart in Hungarian.
Ever felt you got an notification on your phone in your pocket (vibration), u take it out and there is no notification, that's "phantom pain" you are so use to feel the shake that sometimes your brain feel it even tho there is none notification
The mind is an incredibly complex and apparently nostalgic glob of synaptic oatmeal jello butter. Oh and the intros and segues are getting more and more seamless. Thanks for still caring enough about the little things.
For reasons that aren't important, I had both of my pinkie toes (yes, toes) amputated in my early 20's. While I briefly had phantom pain in the missing toes, phantom itch was much more common, and aggravating. Eventually, I figured out that if I scratched the air where the toes used to be, the itching mostly stopped. The itching has faded over the last 30-odd years, but it still happens occasionally, and the air-scratching thing still works.
I'm an amputee and as screwed up as this is, it's true. It makes living much more difficult and after 2.5 years I still feel phantom pain. It's enough to mess with your mind.
Hang in there! I didn't loose limbs but I lost the sense of being alive due to a complete nervous breakdown. Decades later I feel something akin to phantom pain, because everywhere I look, when I notice or feel something that reminds me of being one with reality or happy or whatever you wanna call it, I feel like going back in time and going back to my old self, although it feels like the only real me. I'm not comparing my situation to yours, whatever it may be, but I'm always amused and frustrated that it takes so long for my brain to realize that my teenage years reality is literally two decades ago now. Many, many years of a state of numbness and semi-comatose is all I got from life. Not going to give up though, because what is even the point of giving up. May you be well and may that weird pain of your missing limb go away as soon as possible. Sorry for my sad story, I was once told that I should sometimes share my pain to other people, although I hate doing it and always feel guilty about it. I'm sure it could be worse. I'm lucky to be here. All the best! 🙂
@@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma please check out TMS. I went thru it 2 years ago because my medication wasn’t working any more. It saved my life. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
9 years. Rarely happens now. But I do occasionally have someone stab into my heel with a red hot ice pick. Usually when I am overly tired.
@@Wolf-Spirit_Alpha-Sigma Thank you for sharing your story with me. I'm sorry you've had a rough go at life. I totally get that. I appreciate the kind words and I really hope life improves greatly for you.
@@darthjen420 Thank you kindly.
Trick of the nerves at the stump which never stop trying to contact nerves further down the line that no longer exist.
Another Great Episode Joe, I toe-tally enjoyed it!
I had my gall bladder removed in emergency surgery. For at least a decade after, I still got gall bladder attack pain. My Dr told me it was phantom pain. I thought he was making fun of me. It wasn't as intense as the pain before it was removed, didn't last as long, and did not knock me out or land me in the hospital, like the real thing did. But it continued for many years! I guess it's been awhile because I had forgotten it until I saw this video! I hope thinking about it now doesn't bring it back!
In my head canon, Joe’s lady friend only stuck around as long as she did because he cooked her a dinner from HelloFresh.
Facts.
I work in home health care & one of my past clients experienced pain from a phantom limb (his right leg was amputated below the knee). So far, he's the only person I've met that has experienced phantom pain.
That was such al terible Intro sketch that I wacht it 15 times. I love It!!!
De intro was slijmeriger dan de stroop op jou pannekoek :D
@@cherrydragon3120 hahaha
"Toes don't make sounds so.." "Dead ones do" and "It never goes in the bedroom so if you wanna go in there..". Great job on the intro, love it
And on the other hand (ha) I feel no pain in limbs I still have. I got partial paralysis in my left arm from having a broken neck.
ha, indeed
Been watching you for a while now like 2 or three years and I still love every bit of you’re content
"Why are we still here, just to suffer?
Every night i can feel my leg, my arm, even my fingers."
Oooohooooooooooooooh
This is what I was waiting for
@@vicentebustamante8955 "Words that kill, would you speak them to me?"
The title is misleading. Just because a limb is missing, that doesn't mean that the pain signals seeming to come from that limb are all in the mind. When a limb is amputated, the remaining nerves send out new nerve growth, attempting to reconnect to the severed body part. These new nerves can send pain signals that seem to come from the missing limb.
it never goes in the Bedroom🤣
Nice try Joe🤣
Have a nice one 🖖🏻
Love your Videos
Below knee leg amputee here. For the first several months, I actually felt my full leg and foot there. It felt as if your entire leg below the knee fell asleep hard and right before the pins and needles startup. Was weird when wearing a prosthetic as it was off a bit compared to where I felt my leg should be. As for phantom pain, I found getting a femoral block before surgery helped diminish all phantom pain after three months. Now when the weather changes where it’s going to rain, I feel like my big toe is being twisted in pliers. Other times a feel like I am getting stabbed with a hot needle or feel as if I have an ingrown toenail. I still feel I can move my toes on the foot I am missing. Weird, isn’t it?
I am proud of you, man.
It's good to see Sir Isaac Newton take a break from his apple calculations, and stop by.
I'm a retired nurse and during my career I took care of patients who had phantom pain. But I had this one male patient who would frequently complain about his foot, the one on the amputated leg, itching it drove him crazy because there was no way to scratch it
Hey Joe, love the videos, can't believe youre almost at 1.2M subs! You most likely wont remember this, but I commented that I had the same shirt as you back when you had like 2-3k subscribers haha. Keep doing what you do brother, youre amazing at it!
I knew a guy that lost his left arm at the shoulder. He said every year it felt like his fantom arm got shorter and shorter. It had been a few years and he said now it feels like his fingers were sticking out of his shoulder.
He was still one of the best softball players on his team.
Phantom phone syndrome. I get it all the time. I swear I feel my phone vibrating in my front pocket when it's actually sitting on the table
Yes. And it probably has similar roots: the brain trying to interpret confusing signals in a certain way.
Lol 😂
Fascinating the Mirror Therapy. They're all very interesting. That's why I love these videos
"pain is all just made up"
*me watching with a very painful ear infection*
Pain is all in your head, but then, where else would you keep it? A lot of the phantom limb pain studies cross over with the chronic pain sufferers studies. I’m in the chronic pain group with back problems and sciatic nerve damage. Currently on my second spinal cord stimulator. The pain might only be in your mind, but your mind can cripple you or kill you. To someone who has never had the joy of waking up only to find that the pain is so bad that you cant get yourself out of bed (especially when you wake up because you have to pee) consider yourself blessed.
“I lost a toe a while back … “
Do you remember the last place you had it?
Um, my foot
😂
Five years ago I had one of my legs amputated from below the knee due to ulcers and a skin infection. At first I felt as if my leg was still there due to phantom pain. I could feel everything, as if I still had the bad section (aches, ulcer pain, etc.) Now I only feel the phantom pains occasionally. Once in awhile I feel where the ulcer was on my ankle or even cramps in my toes. I flex the muscles in the stump and can literally feel my toes curling. It is strange how our brains can make us feel as if we are whole when we know that part of us is missing. Thankfully for me the phantom pains are no longer daily and I'm sure that over time they will just go away. At least I hope they do!
More intro sketches! We wanna see you show off your acting! : ))
Although this was an extremely weird sketch... yes, I do wanna see more
I have nerve damage in my foot, and I have all of the symptoms of Phantom Limb while still having the limb. They call it Sympathetic Reflex Disorder and it is exactly as terrible as it sounds. I can't always wiggle my toes or move my foot and when I can it takes a lot of mental effort. It is hard to explain but it is like trying to learn something new every time I want to wiggle my toes and it is very very painful.
6:30 Considering we cant tickle ourselves, I say we got lucky with that one.
My son is a bit unlucky on that score. Not only is he exceptionally ticklish normally, which made it difficult to wash him when he was really young (it would always end up with everyone laughing and him barely any cleaner), but he can tickle himself too. He can't touch his own neck without cringing and laughing.
Easy to explain. Our experiences are all an internal simulation based on external sensory info. Just because you lose the specific input doesn't mean the simulation has to match. Seems pretty simple to me
“Phantom pregnancy” is even more bizarre!!!
My Golden went thru that. 🐕
As a person with multiple neuropathies whose hands currently feel very little but whose right arm and leg feel like a giant sunburn, thank you for giving me another reason to call my pain centre a big fat liar.
What do you guys think the implications are of this for Neuralink?
Dunno. Being finally able to feel phantom pain for limbs you never had in the first place? Like, "Uh, shit, man. My tail hurts again."
Robotic arms controlled by the mind. I want mine installed with a pico projector, decent audio and a stun gun.
Who's gonna be the first person to voluntarily lose a limb to gain cool tech? That's where it's heading.
@@findlvrg4276 Why would we have to lose a limb to get a robotic arm? Is there a hard limit on how many limbs you could train the brain to control?
@@lonestarr1490 where would I even put a third arm? Plus, just think of the wardrobe complications!
@@findlvrg4276 ask doc ock
My father lost a finger in 1991. He could feel the finger and had pain in the lost finger for almost 2 decades. And that was with specialists in a university hospital removing the finger with all the knowledge they had 30 years ago.
It's simple. Neutral pathways in the brain that used to be associated with limbs don't yet recognize that they're gone so they create sensation for the limbs. I know nothing about neuroscience but that sounds good
I've been an a/k left leg amputee for 40+ yrs. I've had phantom pains from day one, I've found several ways to control them to a certain extent. Strangest thing is the phantom pains started in overdrive about 5 yrs. ago. Pain that feels like lightning shooting down my stump and the leg that's not there.. then exploding out of the heal of my left foot... what fun it is and it's really painful... 😁
The opening wasn't realistic because it wasn't another man on the couch with Joe
The Mirror Therapy technique was done in an episode of House where a man whom was crankier and more meddling than House himself had a hand blown off by a grenade. He felt constant pain in that phantom hand. So House kidnaps him and tricks his brain into thinking his missing hand was there in front of him, and told him to "just let go" (of the grenade). he did, and house ended up getting the balcony garden he wanted all along.