Pain causes physical as well as mental suffering to people. Often, comparing these mental pains with others is a serious situation. Various medications can be used to control physical pain, but other measures must be taken to control mental pain. It is common in society today to keep old painful experiences in mind and suffer pain. Depression is one example of this. Therefore, some people are also susceptible to some bad addictions. The best thing is to handle bad pain experiences in a good way.
" live in the now" - yet people are carrying all their baggage of the past with them, having it tell them how to behave. How is that being present? :)