Which type of pain? Reason I ask is that I have several physical injuries which cause pain and have an impact on how I emotionally react to things.

As for disappointment....sometimes after the fact I realise that my expectations were too high or unrealistic so the disappointment lessens. Other times (if I can catch myself quick enough) I stop and think about whether I could have done it differently to gain a different result and if I can't then I have to let it be and move on.

But in all honesty it depends on the situation/event and whether I'm manic at the time (as I also suffer from BP and BPD). For me, it's a constant assessment to keep my skills that I've learned in play.

when I ask about pain, I meant EMOTIONAL PAIN, that kind of pain sometimes we don't know how to handle it....

This will sound strange but i will do my best to answer your question. Emotional pain and me are old companions, as it is with so many of us. For a great deal of my life it was a tug of war between the emotional pain and my defending intellect. As the years pasted by it became more like living with someone you don't like and has become more of an annoance than pain. In time I came to realize that my old companion was as much a part of who I had become as any thing else. As more time pasted I started to learn to ignore it. And as more time pasted it started becoming a faint memory. In short i grew enough as a person to intigrate the emotional pain as part of myself and quit fighting it. it is like having a cronic back pain.

boy to i hate writing after drinking wine.

sorry.

I totally agree with our friends.It does become a part of you .A suky part but know ones perfect