10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain by Blake Tearnan

Author:Blake Tearnan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781608825332
Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

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Enhancing Your Emotional Well-Being

Chronic pain can take a toll on emotional well-being. It’s not difficult to understand why. Chronic pain is associated with numerous losses, a decline in physical fitness, disturbance of sleep, strain on relationships, loss of energy, low activity levels, social isolation and loneliness, and the stress of unremitting pain. Anxiety, depression, and anger are the rule, not the exception, for people in chronic pain. These negative emotions, in turn, exacerbate pain and increase suffering.

Learning to improve your emotional well-being is the focus of this chapter. You might believe this task is too difficult or impossible given all you’ve experienced. Besides, it’s normal to feel upset when pain is constant, and to feel otherwise could be considered abnormal. However, it isn’t inevitable that as long as you experience pain there’s nothing you can do to feel better emotionally. With some effort, people can learn to feel less depressed, anxious, and angry. In fact, not everyone with chronic pain feels miserable. Although chronic pain increases the risk of emotional turmoil, it isn’t an inevitable outcome.

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