The only valid
response when you simply cannot describe the
pain which you are
experiencing. Sometimes it's because you can't get enough
air to really
vocalize it, as when you get hit in the
stomach and you can't
scream because there's no air - there may be just enough air to say, "It hurts..." before
collapsing.
Sometimes the pain is so unbearable that you cannot even scream - rocking-yourself-on-the-floor-in-a-
fetal-position-with-
tears-streaming-down-your-
face type of pain.
Note: the pain being experienced need not be
physical. It could be
emotional, as a response tor just being told that your SO or child died.
This is the type of pain which cannot be expressed because there is no word or
phrase which
adequetely
explains it, yet it is still
communicated by the
understated phrase, "It hurts", and the way your body and face are
grotesquely
deformed by your body's
involuntary reaction to the pain.