benefits of pain

I don't know. I experience extreme pain from dystonic spasms and sometimes it does make me feel life is worth living. But to overcome it I don't tell myself the pain is beneficial because its not. I try to seek treatment that will stop it. It depends on what a person has though. I know some disabilities that cause chronic pain are hard to treat. I try to do something that will create a lasting impression on society in a positive manner or take what enjoyment I can from the day. When you lose functioning in a certain area as you gradually regain it even if its partial it makes you appreciate more what others take for granted. Such as going out for a walk as I did todaay and hearing birds. I write poetry myself and listening to music. One can emotionally seperate oneself from many things but its very hard to do so with pain but I try to say that it is a physical feeling and apart from who I am and my willingness to live and enjoy life. It does detract from my quality of life and anyone who experiences it but for myself I am advocating to get on a new treatment for my disability a family member who is a researcher found out about and I looked up online and my neurologist is seeing whether it would be helpful or not. The time it took me to look it up did create pain because in typing my fingers have dystonic spasms but the mental energy was dedicated towards active efforts for recovery and I wasn't thinking about the pain itself at that time. I try to set up accomodations around it. It is physically impossible for me to speak on the phone without choking spasms so I have a TTY but I got used to speaking to people on that. I know everyone is different in their approach but I learned mine from other people with physical disabilities before I acquired mine and that's how I manage to get on with life as they did as well.

Pain IS beneficial when you hurt because your appendix is getting ready to burst, or when you fall and break a bone, etc.  
Pain is NOT beneficial when it is constant all over your body and there are no specific reasons why it is happening (like in Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue, which I have).  Most days I am on the sofa; not just resting, but because I don't have the energy to get up and do anything.  I have to do my housework a little bit at a time because I hurt and the pain worsens when I work or am active.  Pain is not good when you can't even plan family activities because you might not feel well enough to go that day.  I understand why God allows pain, but I will NOT acknowledge it as a benefit in my ongoing daily life!!