How does chronic pain affect a person psychologically?

How does chronic pain affect a person psychologically?

Marc Darrow (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Joint Rehabilitation Sports Medical Center, Inc. ) gives expert video advice on: How does chronic pain affect a person psychologically?; Are analgesics effective for managing chronic pain? and more...

Chronic pain affects a person psychologically very adversely for many reasons. When a person is in chronic pain they feel stress, and when a person is stressed they feel pain; it goes hand in hand. All of these things act very deleteriously or negatively on our psychology or the consciousness inside of us. It depletes our energy when we feel stress or pain. Chronic pain, especially, is very deleterious or negative to the psyche of a person, because a person often feels there's no way out; that they're going to have this for the rest of their life, and they think about the future too much. The future is always a lot of fear; it's always a lot of depression, because if we paint a picture of the future as being very negative and as if there's no way out of it, then we get very discouraged, and that causes more pain.