Acknowledge the Pain?
"Pain in the conscious human is thus very different from that in any other species. Sensory pain never exists alone except in infancy or perhaps under the influence of morphine when a patient says he has pain but does not mind it. Later, in those periods after healing in which the phenomena usually called chronic pain occur, we have perhaps a predominance of conscious pain." - Chapter 18 of The Julian Jaynes Collection "Sensory Pain and Conscious Pain"