Impact of Positive And Negative Emotions on Our Chronic Physical Pain
According to the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), pain is an emotional and unpleasant sensory experience. When we are in pain, it means we have to adjust certain things to lessen the problem within our bodies. Sometimes, we feel that our chronic pain is unbearable without any physical catalyst. In this specific moment, we have to denote from where the pain is coming and what we have to do to reduce the pain. If we do not deal with our stresses and emotions, then we may not be healed mentally.
According to many experts , positive and negative emotions can affect physical chronic pain. Our pain and emotion come from many of the same interconnected areas of the brain as described by many experienced back specialists.
How Emotions Affect Chronic Pain
When we are sad, it may worsen our chronic pain and influence cortical activity.
The patients who are angry more than others and cannot forgive easily, experience more pain compared to others.
When patients with chronic pain take certain types of pain medications, it may affect their overall emotions such as it reduces neural responses to social rejection.
Laughter may reduce your pain on some level.
Love plays an important role in reducing pain. When we are in love, the amygdala, dorsolateral PFC and nucleus accumbens are activated and we feel good.
There are some negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, guilt, anger, helplessness and grief that increase our chronic pain. These negative emotions also reduce pain tolerance and are linked with hyperalgesia, low quality of life, fatigue and various psychiatric problems.
Positive emotions such as love, happiness, enthusiasm, calmness, passion, empathy, interest, inspiration reduce pain and the use of medications, increase pain tolerance. Positive emotions increase the personal resources which are physical, social, intellectual and psychological.
Every emotion is linked with other emotions. When we feel negative emotions, at that moment our body starts a process like we get tensed and experience shortness of breath frequently. Sometimes we also feel physical problems like muscle tightness.
You can control and manage your emotions by taking specific medications, joining talk therapy and stress reduction.
The negative emotions increase chronic pain such as chronic back pain. The back specialists in OKC helps you to reduce physical pain and give mental peace. Oklahoma Pain Treatment Centers provide Discogram to treat your back and neck pain. Feel free to contact us via our website.
**Disclaimer: This blog post does not establish terms of a doctor-patient relationship and is not intended to be taken as a doctor's advice
