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I don't think it accounts for the headache I have now being experienced as "my" headache
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People can separate themselves from what - from the point of view that holds to a constant self - should be 'their' pain. When someone at a vaudou ceremony, for example, is possessed by one or another of the Loa, the possessed body can cut itself, eat broken glass, put its hand through fire and so on. The person who has been possessed feels no pain. So it is possible to have stories in which ongoing body-states are not registered as 'belonging to' the self.
Under Prozac or similar drugs, the medicated person will feel removed from the site at which feelings are encountered. I was prescribed one of these things - I don't recommend them at all, but then my need was very minor - and the feeling was one of dissociation from the self that I had built up. Instead of experiencing (psychological) pain, I became a bystander to pain that was happening to someone.
On the whole, though, I'd advise aspirin. Which sometimes seems to me to have a similar effect on the headache that Prozac has on a depressive state.
@Sparrow : what do you make of
this fellow?