A Biopsychosociospiritual Taxonomy

By Dr. Stacy Burdick

Sadly, and far too pervasive, submerged pain-narratives are so easily hidden and are historically, sometimes trapping humankind within gross diachronic amniotic darkness, where it is difficult to breath. Embodied within this murky quality of inundated, panic-ridden, personal pain; unresolved pain is conceiving a murderer, nurturing unhealthy, dysfunctional generativity. This gravid amniote of hidden pain is as a lurking executioner, ready and able to dehumanize and kill: Bio by Psycho by Socio and Spiritual means. This readiness is a disturbing, diachronic constant; a vicious variable common to all life and living.

When I reflect upon the intra-interpersonal experiences of my patients, empathy seems uncommon. Yet, what my patients, and all humankind, share in common is an undeniable connection with pain. The narrative connected to one's pain is meant to be shared not locked up in the dark recesses of ones' humanity. Unlocking one's pain-story, the Sufferer, may encounter intra-interpersonal relationships (IPRs) characterized by suffering, sharing, perseverance, character, compassion, empathy, and hope but not limited to these, along the way of their pilgrimage with pain. Other IPRs may involve oneself with breaking generational curses, conceiving healthy generativity, and embodying the resources to help others with a particular substance of empathy to help build better relationships.

Building better relationships is a vigorous heart-wrenching journey. This book is an invitation to begin such a heartfelt journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
• Release date: Sep 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885051668

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Contents

Preface

An Anthropomorphic View r/t Pain and Suffering

The Question of Personhood

Usar Stories

A Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Valuation: Current Pain Severity

A Biopsychosociospiritual (BPSS) Perspective of Personhood

A BPSS Pain Symptom Prevalence and Severity

A Taxonomy of Antecedent Pain Narratives

Glossary

References

List of Tables

A Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Valuation: Current Pain Symptoms

A BPSS Perspective of Personhood: What’s It Like to Be You?

BPSS Pain Symptom Prevalence and Severity

Joy, Hurt, Anger, Depression: A Taxonomy of Antecedent Pain Narratives

Preface

What is it like to be human? Humankinds’ Biopsychosociospiritual¹ (BPSS) experience with pain and suffering introduces us to constant painful variables, to survive and share. It is our human vocation to survive, share, and bring a measure of resolve to our experiences with pain, and suffering. To survive our experience with pain is to suffer because of it. To share it (BPS or S) invites the Sufferer to persevere towards a measure of resolve, simultaneously shouldering a personal barrage of probing questions, but not limited to these: What and where is my pain?

What caused it? Do my individual experiences with pain matter?

Our pain narratives are often too burdensome to carry alone. Misinterpreting this BPSS burden complicates our connection with pain, too often before resolve can be experienced. Resolve is repeatedly initiated by entrusting our pain story to a supportive other. That being true, how will individual experiences, FHx, and values influence our personal narrative? How will I validate the existential story of others? How will you validate what matters to you or to another? As challenging as our pain narratives are to share and entrust to another, they’re not ours to keep. Pain is meant to be conversive.

One’s experience with pain promotes a constant challenge. This challenge is meant to alert the Sufferer to the human condition: something is wrong, out of balance, broken, needing repair. Before repair of one’s pain can be experienced, the sharing of it is required. A pain narrative, inclusive of causality, must be shared and validated. Yet, to whom will the Sufferer entrust their pain story: God, a human, an animal, creation, Divine, or anthropomorphic? Are you equipped to accept the Sufferer’s personal narrative? Is the Sufferer set to share their story?

All ethnos are familiar with pain and suffering. This familiarity invites humankind to learn to become conversive, with their pain narrative, and choose to journey on a shared pilgrimage answering the question, but not limited to this: What is the value of pain and suffering? More tangible perhaps: Why am I here? What’s the meaning of surviving my experiences with pain and suffering? If one cares enough to ask, who should one ask? Appropriately, ask the one who’s suffering. Well, who is suffering…all humanity: the other, the person closest to me, furthest from me, creation itself, Father God?

Asking careful questions to each other, settles the answer of this painful often heartfelt issue within us, where the truest responses are embodied. By prioritizing these conversive means, which unhealthy generativity rejects, the virtue of truthful intra-interpersonal relationship (IPR) is encouraged to come forth as healthy generativity, to be supported with careful compassion created to respect self and each other. The presence of pain invites us to care enough to listen to each other’s pain narrative. By careful compassionate means, to listen well is to escape the imposition of personal bias, presupposition, and other unhealthy, careless psychosocial processes.

In its inception, listening well to the Sufferer’s often agonizing pain narrative is evidence of careful compassion provided, almost as a healing gesture. This being true, compassion is not curative, yet it provides the value of palliation of one’s pain, allowing for transcendence for the Sufferer to be sustained by and comforted with, throughout their pilgrimage with pain.

Throughout this daily pilgrimage, a just-right challenge of virtue is being offered us