Until I was 14, I was convinced I wasn't feeling pain correctly and that I was severely mentally ill

As a kid I thought that I was mentally ill, that I had something wrong with my brain that needed treatment. I remember that my teacher told us when we were like 10 that pain was mental, the brain registers pain and sometimes sends out pain signals without a reason. I don't know what she meant by it, but I took that as the pain being a mental thing, that your body doesn't feel pain but that your brain just tells you that you're in pain.<br><br>After that, I was super scared, I thought I wasn't feeling pain at all and that I needed to get to a doctor to get treated, because maybe one day I wouldn't feel pain and won't know when I hurt myself. I went to my parents but they just told me that ofc I felt pain...<br><br>I felt like I was going crazy, that something was wrong with my brain and that I needed help. I was scared to tell anybody and that everybody would think I'm crazy... <br><br>Then one day when I was 14, we did a similar topic in school, but this time the teacher explained that ofc our bodies feel pain, but our brain registers the pain and tells us that we are in pain. I finally understood what my old teacher meant and that I was just dumb as a kid to misunderstand and overthink this topic so much.