Something in your life is causing you pain, and instead of dealing with the pain, you've opted for drugs.

你生活中的有些东西使你遭受痛苦，而不是解决痛苦，你就选择了药物。

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Every hard duty that lies in your path, that you would rather not do, that it will cost you pain and struggle or sore effort to do, has a blessing in it.

信徒啊，在你所走的道路上，你是不是常遇见困难的事、不愿意的事、痛苦的事呢？ 在每一件这样的事里面，都藏着一个极大的祝福。

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My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners — my behaviour to you was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not.

我的美貌并没有打动你的心；讲到我的态度方面，我对你至少不是怎么有礼貌，我没有哪一次同你说话不是想要叫你难过一下。

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In your pain and sadness, you may decide that the person you loved is hard-hearted, and in fact,has a heart of stone.

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So the pain you're suffering now is actually instrumentally valuable, useful as a means, even though it's intrinsically bad.

所以你现在忍受的痛苦,是有利用价值的，作为手段是有用的，尽管痛苦本身是坏的。

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If we torture this one-- of course to torture,you cause pain to bodies, but the pain gets felt in the mind.

如果我们折磨这个-,当然了，折磨会在肉体上产生痛苦，而痛苦可以被意识感知。

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The position you're in is probably causing you pain, whether you're aware of it yet or not.

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If the bears take over, it will cause you great pain.

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Great, but how do you treat pain caused by emotional factors?

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