Everything in our body is interconnected. This has once again been proven by scientists. Experts have managed to determine who most often suffers from pain in the back, head, neck, and other parts of the body.
Chronic pain can significantly complicate life. Most often, people prefer to relieve pain syndrome with medication. However, taking handfuls of pills can severely harm health, primarily affecting the stomach and liver. So how else can one help oneself?
Scientists from Stanford and Boston Universities are convinced that pain can arise or intensify due to psychosomatics.
The study involved more than 700 people suffering from chronic pain. All participants were of different ages, and they consulted doctors with complaints of aching joints, headaches, back pain, leg pain, or pain in other parts of the body. Participants were observed for five months.
The researchers carefully examined the medical histories of the individuals, their backgrounds, and then decided to create a psychological profile of the participants. The experts focused on strong emotions that typically cause stress in people—resentment and anger. Using a method called latent profile analysis, they identified four distinct "anger expression profiles," each describing how people experience, express, and control anger, as well as how strongly they feel offended by the situation.
The results surprised the scientists. It turned out that people with an average or high level of anger were much more likely to suffer from bouts of chronic pain. A similar situation was observed among those who constantly felt resentful towards the world or those around them, believing that life was unfair to them.
If a person frequently felt angry and was constantly resentful, the pain attacked them with double force. Moreover, negative emotions had a cumulative effect, which only exacerbated suffering in the future.
In contrast, people who could manage their anger and approached their condition with less indignation generally felt significantly better over time.
"When anger is mixed with a sense of injustice, which itself is considered a trigger for angry reactions, it can trap people in a cycle of emotional and physical suffering that exacerbates and sustains chronic pain," the scientists say.
Thus, a person who often gets angry and feels a lot of resentment is at risk. This is the ideal candidate for chronic pain.
Of course, the experts do not claim that chronic pain depends solely on emotional state. There are diseases that we cannot control. However, if you work on managing your anger and feel less resentment, it can greatly improve your condition.
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