Language & Pain Issues

      Have you ever experienced any type of pain -mental or physical- that you have never been able to explain to anyone? Sometimes our language doesn't fully encompass everything we want to say, to tell others exactly what we want them to know. Using language to communicate to others is taking what you see in your own head, and transmitting that idea, or that image to another persons' head. If you think about it, it's a type of telepathy. We take something that only we have felt, or experienced in our own unique way, and get others to experience it in a similar fashion.
      But back to the first question, how do we describe pain? How is it that we can feel mental pain in our bodies, and physical pains in our minds. It seems as if the two should be mutually exclusive, when in reality, they aren't. In some complex way, our physical and mental pain have found a way to merge together and create one large writhing mass of discomfort. Right now, my back hurts, but how can I explain the difference between the ache of my upper back from doing homework for 6 hours straight in a wooden chair, and the pain in my lower back from my newly formed stress fractures? Both ache, and are causing me unreasonable amounts of discomfort, and are in very close proximity with one another.
      I am not exactly sure what the point of this post is. It might be that I am unsure of how to express my discomfort, or it may be just a fake-deep way of complaining about the aches in my back. All I'm saying is that it can sometimes be hard to distinguish between small differences using the limited words that are contained in the English vocabulary.