[kruffalon]

Sure, I don't know how it works physiologically...

But anecdata at least suggests that being in enough pain can cause panic, but it might do so indirectly so that the fear is created around the inability to think the pain will ever end or at least lessen at least a bit.

[withinboredom]

My leg has been fucked for 15 years. Sometimes it hurts so bad, I’d need narcotics to make it go away. I don’t panic when walking, I just deal with it because I need to get to my destination. If you are thirsty, you will drink through the pain. Panic is something else.

[kruffalon]

I'm sorry that you have that pain in the first place but I'm glad that you are able to process being in pain without getting into a panic.

[imchillyb]

Panic is a learned behavior.

Exposure to a stimulus is often both cause and trigger.

How is it that you’re an adult and still don’t know this.

Toddlers know this.

[withinboredom]

I think you've gotten fear confused with panic. Fear is indeed a learned behavior, panic is not. Panic is beyond rational thinking, it is what gets people who save drowning people dead. Panic is what gets normal humans dead when in bad situations. Panic is not learned, it saves your ass at all costs -- or gets you killed.

[JumpCrisscross]

> think you've gotten fear confused with panic

They’re just wrong. Neither panic nor fear is learned behaviour. What one panics about or fears is in part learned. But there is still a lot of instinct at play.