Valich:
Sorry I did not get back to your sooner. (I forgot about this thread.)
I am not trying to change your moral values (I never do if the practice is not injurous to others.) but I do not think you should attact (degrade) others whose morals do pemit masterbation. There is little question that in some cases masterbation is useful to society in that it provides a relief to what Freud called "sexual tensions" when other reliefs are not available and without this relief injury to others does sometimes occur.
Asfar as your pain is concerned it is properly called
Neurogenic Pain
"Pain initiated or caused by a primary lesion, dysfunction, or transitory perturbation in the peripheral or central nervous system."
This quote from the international body defining pain types. See:
http://www.iasp-pain.org/AM/Templat...=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=3058#Neuralgia
For the widely accepted definitions of various types.
Please reread the discription I gave of how the use of a vertical mirror has been used to relieve the phantom pain* of a (non existent) clenched fist with the non existent finger nails digging painfully into the non existent palm.
If after a re-read you still do not understand, I think I can find the journal reference where this cure is first described. (I know I still have a Xerox of the article but it is some where in a stack of Xeroxs about a meter high.)
I spent many hours working on chronic pain with doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. (I even hold a patent on a special needle that enables them to insert electrodes on the dura of the spinal cord with relatively minor surgery. (Just stick the needle in thru a lamina joint.)
The problem I solved for them was that the cable from the electodes would not permit the insertion needle to be slipped back out if the other (non electrode) end already had a connector attached. Thus, the doctor used a soldering iron at the end of the operation to add the connector after the needle was pulled out leaving the electrode cable in place.
My patented needle was a little larger and made in two pieces both "U" shaped I.e. a U and a u which with one inverted and inserted into the other to form a O or closed needle to confine the cable with well made, tested connector already attached.
I.e. the cable was initially layed sideways into the u and then the U was placed over the u, thus confining the cable within the needle. After the electrode was inserted, my needle was slid back until it was entirely outside of the body and then the U and u were separated to free (side ways) the needle from the cable with no problem caused by the pre-existence of the connector attached to the cable.
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*Note that "phantom pain" is not amoung the couple of dozen of different pain types that are defined. - It is obviously a "phantom pain" if it is in a "phantom limb" so no definition is needed to distinguish it from pains in the real body. Perhaps "pain in the phantom" would be more precise, but that is not used as too long. (For readers unfamiliar with phantom limbs they are just as real emotionally and psychologically to people who have phantoms as their real existing limbs. Often they have little control over the phantom. I.e they can not "unclench the fist" that is causing the pain. The pain is certainly real even if the limb is not.
Also I do not dispute the validity of the terms your doctor has used. They may be well understood by other doctors.
You are not correct when you say: "you can't talk about the distal or proximal end of the nerve because there is no nerve left." If that were the case you would not have pain. In fact some experimental work has been done to totally remove the nerve with a injection of a toxin in it. Then it dies all the way back into the brain. Your injured nerves still exist and the end inside the brain is stil able to stimulate other brain cells and produce your pain.
All pain is created only in the brain from unusual neural impulses coming to it from the nerves that extend outside of the brain.
It is strange, but true, that the injury to the brain itself (alone) never casuses any pain. Doctor routinely cut deep in the brain, remove sections of it, stick stiff electrodes down into the deep interior parts etc. all without causing any pain. Usually while talking with the patient and making the patient speak back, tell the doctor various things etc. as the doctors slowly proceed to do what they think may help the patient (typically he has spreading eplipse, proper term instead of "spreading" is "kindling" like starting a fire,which is in some sense exactly what is happening as the excesive electrical activity of brain cells spreads). I.e. they are trying to avoid destroying some of his more obvious abilities as this is likely to result in a law suit against the doctor.
I have been in the OR at JHH and watched a fully conscious lady's brain be probed and stimulated electrically without her feeling any pain. She had only a local (topical) pain killer applied to scalp. - some form of novicane, I think, like your dentist might use. (Just watching, I suffered much more than she did!)