Cursing Really DOES Make You Feel BETTER!

Screaming and cursing does help! Although I do more screaming than cursing lately because my daughter picks up every word we say these days! Imagine the other day, I forgot to restrain myself and said sh*t loudly, and she was saying "shi! shi! shi!" the whole day

LOL this really made me laugh out loud hands down. I actualy thought about it and said you know what when I hurt myself and I cuss it actualy does feel better , but then again I can have a sailors mouth as they say lol.

Absof*ckinglutley swearing helps. I swear like a sailor,I got it naturally from my mom. I usually swear at a ump or ref these days but if I dropped something on my foot I Will swear.

LOL I guess that's why I am able to handle pain much better than my husband. I always thought that it was my RA or Fibro but, now, I know what it is LOL

Wow I had no idea that they would actually do a study on something like this.. Yes I swear when I stub my toe.. or more so when I bend the wrong way and hurt my back.. Have sever back problems to it is rather easy to do something stupid.. Swearing also seems to help when you are extremely mad at a person.. it does help you feel better but in the end when you are cussing them out they turn their ears off and start cussing back.. which makes the situation worst in the end.. Yes I have heard a couple "goodie too shoes" cuss when they are very much against it.. All I start doing is laughing.. which makes them well.. needless to say more pissed off.

It's actually rather interesting - I had to do a project on swearing and taboo language at school for one of my classes and the research yielded some interesting information. I discovered that individuals who were brain damaged, although they were unable to speak coherently in "clean" language, were capable of cursing relentlessly, suggesting that curse words are wired deep into our mental workings. I also discovered that the Stroop Test (a test in which the names of colors are printed in ink of a different color, and you are asked to say the name of the color of the ink in which the word is printed) when performed on individuals, and containing curse words has a different effect compared to when ordinary words are used. Indeed curse words intertwine in a most intricate manner with our sub conscious, and it is not too far-fetched to believe they may induce certain stress-relieving hormones when uttered. Personally though, I don't curse or at least limit it strictly! :)

I saw this on Good Morning America. But what I don't understand is why just a good loud OW, OW OW or something similar wouldn't work just as well rather than resorting to cursing. Maybe the ones who curse just have a higher tolerance for pain with it having been built up by being around abusive people who curse all the time.

Lolz! I really didn't know that cursing helps with easing pain, I guess it does sometimes. When I'm in pain or angry I always curse like every sentence I make is consisting of 3 good words and the rest are all cursing Ha Ha!

yeah, i think it does. it somewhat flushes the anger out of us when we do not find the appropriate recipient. we curse most of the times when we are not able to get it up its appropriate recipient. either he is the boss, senior at the work place or the traffic constable. so, it is muttered into the atmosphere. hahaha!!!!!!!!!

Hi anniepa, I don't know if it helps with the pain or not but it can certainly be a natural reaction in the circumstances. I banged my shoulder quite badly the other day on the sharp edge of an open window and swore automatically. That does not make me, as some of the reponses above indicate, an abusive curser. It is possible to swear in reaction without constantly littering ones conversations with others with expletives. Next time it happens I will test the theory out.

It happens all the time and I always wonder if this is the natural reaction for everybody. It also happens to people that never cursed before. It really a weird experience

I think it is a way of putting your anger onto words :) Nice topic thanks for sharing

Cursing really makes me feel better but I would rahther to use anther way to calm myself.

That;'s kinda tempting, but remember what you say can either back fire or have Karma sooner or later..in short we might give a very bad impression that people might spread the word about your actions as they think that' s how you treat people. I know, i tried to do that before but my mom kept telling me to simply negotiate and never be aggressive. otherwise, they might fight back with out you unnoticed.

I think what really helps is the venting. I know people who have invented their own swear words which are not really swear words but sunstitutes for them. They work just as well.

I have done this serveral times. I usually only curse about things like that when no one else is around though. I think it does help to make you feel better to take the pain off of your mind and focus it on words LOL.

Haha that is funny, and i have already discovered this for myself, I was sitting with my cat in my lap and my arms around him, and someone dropped a bag of can and the noise startled him and as he scrambled to get away, he scratched the hel1 out of me, I screamed MOTHER #*#*ER (not at my cat, just at the situation) at the top of my lungs, and even though I was bleeding and it still stung, I felt better