/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15617272
I might misremember the exact hormone, but the body shits out endorphine when injured, and probably adrenaline too.

Shock is weird - I cut myself in the finger while prepping maybe two years ago, did not hurt but I was bleeding proper.
Was thinking
>oh cool, I thought this would be worse, but it aint so bad
and started calmly fetching gauze, band-aid n shiet. About a minute after the cut I suddenly damn near fainted and had trouble sitting on a chair without falling over, vision blurred and sound muffled. Got handed a glass of water and that calmed me down swiftly.
I was shocked by how shocked I actually was, lel.