Luigi Mangione Was Fixated on ‘Brain Fog’ and Other Health Symptoms - WSJ

The language they use to describe Mangione's experience of pain- using words like "fixated-" exemplifies how out of touch the Wall Street Journal is to how pain feels. If you accidentally hit yourself with a hammer and couldn't focus on what was going on around you, I would consider you a normal human being, not a freak. Why is it that most people struggle to wrap their head around pain? Have they just not experienced pain before? They'd have an excuse, atleast, if that were the case.