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He is afraid of Pain. Very afraid.

People can have differing tolerance to pain. He is not very tolerant. He judges moderate pain is unbearable.

But more important, he has a unusually strong aversion to pain. He is afraid of it just as others are afraid of spiders or snakes.

The tolerance level is genetic. The fear can be caused by one or more traumatic events. He could have been in a situation where he suffered unbearable pain for a prolonged time. He could not immediately use the time reset because the pain almost made him pass out, and confused him to the level of not thinking clearly enough to act. Alternatively, the confusion could be caused by reduced oxygen supply to the brain from an injury of an artery, related to the accident causing the pain.

Even if he knows that objectively, the pain is not dangerous to him, his instinct makes him avoid pain like common people avoid death. Or possibly much more, because one can rationally accept or intend to die, but he can not suppress his fear at all, even if he wants to.

The name of his condition is Algophobia.

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