Relationship between Chronic Pain Depressions

Time Is Running Out! Treat Your Depression to Relief Your Pain

We all have read either in newspapers or heard while speaking to our doctors that there exists a close relationship between the body and the mind. There is a renowned saying that most of your sickness lies in your mind and if your mind is at rest, then automatically your body is fit and fine. The market is flooded with books talking about positive thinking. All this makes it clear that one might experience bodily pain if he is undergoing any sought of mental illness such as depression and vice-versa. Pain and depression are intimately linked. Depression can cause pain — and pain can trigger depression.

 However, it might so happen that pain and depression can form a vicious cycle. In such a situation, the pain can cause depression, and the depression caused by chronic pain can cause further depression.

How to Identify Your Depression through Your Pain?

Depression can often cause unexplained physical pain. This depression in such a case remains untreated as a person is not aware of the cause of pain, and oversees it. This can lead to depression being untreated for a very long period. Physical pain symptoms of depression could be in the form of a headache or backache. Such symptoms can be the first symptom of depression in many cases.

How Can the Circle of Pain and Depression Upset Day-To-Day Activity of a Person?

Headache and backache caused by depression can drain down a person, and over time has extreme effects on your mood, worsening the state of your mind. These pains for a long time can cause high strain over the mind and one might also experience high stress and disturbed sleep.

The chronic pain caused due to depression can lead to the inability of a person to engage in his daily routine of social activities, hobbies and hamper his earning capacity.

Can Pain Resulting From Any Other Disease Lead to Depression?

It is not necessary that depression can occur only due to pain that has been caused due to an injury. The pain-causing depression can also be linked to other health conditions such as diabetes, cancer, or heart disease.

How Can You Treat Pain and Depression Together?

Treatment of pain and depression, if interlinked is not necessarily a two separate treatment. One can get both the symptoms under control with a single treatment. However, in some conditions, both ailments are required to be treated separately.

Some common therapies used to treat pain and depression together 

• Antidepressant Pills:  These pills are helpful for patients suffering from both pain and depression, as these medications regulate the sharing of chemical messengers in the brain (neurotransmitters).
• Psychological Counselling:  It is proved that psychological counseling, often referred to as psychotherapy, positively reduces and treats both these conditions of pain and depression.  
• Stress Reduction Skills: Some techniques such as exercising, meditating, a good amount of physical activity throughout the day, and writing a diary helps reduce stress and illuminate depression. 

When both pain and depression are co-existing the most effective way to treat the individual is through multimodal treatments, i.e. the use of two or more kinds of therapies to treat these symptoms.

It is important that if you feel or experience any chronic pain and exhibit depression syndromes, you visit a proper physician, rather than trying to fix it yourself. Early detection of a disorder may prevent worsening of the disorder. You don't have to be suffering for your life. The right treatment; at the right time can benefit you immensely and enjoying life again.