We don't suffer for days and days with this pain. We don't lose our emotional composure. This type of pain resolves quickly. Visceral pain is the most common pain found in IC patients. It is not localized and produces stronger autonomic and affective responses.
Visceral pain has a more agonizing quality.
It is carried to a different part of the brain than the somatic, the part of the brain that deals with emotions. Emotions are a physical quality of the pain. It doesn't mean that the patient is emotionally weak or having a breakdown. It just means that a different of the brain is being stimulated. Neuropathic pain is usually caused by a degeneration of the nervous system, i.e. that the nerves have damaged in some way.