A closer look
Uttering profanities when you experience sudden physical trauma actively reduces your perception of pain by triggering the emotional center of your brain known as the amygdala, a phenomenon proven when researchers discovered that subjects holding their hands in freezing ice water could withstand the agony significantly longer if they loudly repeated a swear word instead of a neutral word; swearing effectively provokes a stress-induced analgesia, activating your fight-or-flight response to naturally numb the pain without the need for pharmaceuticals, which means that screaming absolute obscenities when you stub your toe on the coffee table is a scientifically validated medical intervention, making polite society an enemy to your physical wellbeing and proving we should all aggressively normalize yelling unhinged profanities at minor inconveniences, because suppressing your rage is not only bad for your mental health, it actively prevents you from utilizing your body's built-in painkiller
