Pain Management – The Link Between Pain and Depression
The direct relationship between pain and depression has long been established in the medical field. In fact, the use of anti-depressant medication for pain management is now a common and well-accepted practice among specialists. This comes from the knowledge that the chemicals occurring in the brain to which depression is attributed and the brain signals which translate to physical pain are both transported through the body’s nervous system. Proof of this is that persons who are suffering from depression simultaneously suffer from various physical pain such as headaches, stomach aches, joint pain and muscle pain. The reverse is also true. Persons who are suffering from aches, especially those with chronic pain, tend to suffer from depression as well. The direct relationship between the two illnesses is further confirmed by the fact that when a person’s depression worsens, so does the chronic aches, and vice versa.