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How Your Anger Can Trigger Pain?
How Your Anger Can Trigger Pain?

There can be several really valid explanations for being angry, irritated, and pissed off if you live with chronic pain. Your pain may be a result of events outside your control, or perhaps someone else's fault – such as slipping over the wet floor or being put back on the red lights. Pain management doctors often say that anger has an integral role to play in triggering pain.

And if your treatments or recommendations do not help, you can easily get disappointed with physicians, chiropractors, or physical therapists. If the discomfort prevents you from performing important things, such as working, completing activities or studying, this may lead to a snowball of negative feelings by creating a feeling of failure. Then, you may have to deal with non-cooperative providers, medical side effects then friends, family and colleagues who really don't seem to understand your situation.

Too much wrath can pose a problem if relief is to be found.

Evidence has shown that rage can be related to higher pain severity and is important for a variety of chronic syndromes such as fibromyalgia, back pain and headaches. Anger also tends to be related to poorer physical health and increased work impairment. Research also shows that rage can affect the quality of sleep and contribute to poor management practices. Other studies on chronic anger and suffering suggest that increased anger leads to emotional loss, interferes with social links, and other mood problems such as depression and anxiety. The madder we become, the more people we can drive away.

Even if you can accept that your frustration aggravates your situation, it can be difficult to let go of it. You may feel that you give up your frustration to the pain, or you lose your defensive mechanism to say "It's not perfect!”Even anger can feel as an energy source which" starts "your battle to get through the day or as a protection shield, in order to avoid feeling more vulnerable. In the long term, however, the reverse tends to be true.

Often the first step is to become conscious of rage. In order to help you assess the effect of this wrath on you, consider having conversations with your neighbors and doctors to understand your actions and mood. You would want to know this if your rage affects the willingness of others to serve you best. Once you are more conscious of the symptoms of an unhealthy amount of frustration, you will start reframing your thoughts and find better ways to respond to the situation before responding.

If you remain overwhelmed by anger, consider learning better management strategies outside. Remember that better management of rage can mean better control of the pain.

You can get in touch with a neurosurgeon to get a proper treatment. Book an appointment with Neuroscience Specialist in OKC for help.

**Disclaimer- Information presented here is not intended to be qualified medical advice. Nothing expressed herein creates a doctor-patient relationship.