The point is that no pain endures, no suffering lasts. Not that I'm saying people should be tormented in pain till they die. Yet there is a threshold of pain and the same for suffering, so that psychological pain and physical pain is neither constant or without end and when that threshold is passed it's lights out and pain and suffering is no more, as everything in this world it's hardly constant, that's why you can keep your hand in the fire for ever, but it will only burn for so long. Being tormented by pain would require someone to endure what nobody can endure without passing out. When they get back to it that pain might emerge once more, but nobody can endure torment or constant torment, the body either becomes burned out in that respect/numb or you pass out, or both.
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That's a generalization that sounds poetic but I don't think it has been shown to always be the case. For some people the threshold does not adjust with time and the pain is not sharp enough to get you to pass out.
Our minds and bodies are not machines and don't always act according to the pattern you are describing and there are always things that could malfunction to prevent the mechanisms that you are describing from working the way you are describing.
Additionally, what good is passing out or sleeping if you are still in pain after you wake up. Even if the pain is not constant for some and they do get a breaks, it can still be unbearable to them.