Understanding and Managing Chronic Pain & its Relationship with Mental Health

Approximately 1 in 5 people in the U.S. will experience chronic pain which can impact your mental health as well. Learn about chronic pain's relationship to anxiety and depression and the treatments available.

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- The Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), a non-profit organization, leads in education, training, and research for anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD, OCD, and co-occurring disorders. ADAA also provides free evidence-based mental health information and resources to the public.

[Letsbhonest]

What’s fascinating in our society is that street drugs are ok. But people who have sever chronic pain are denied drugs for relief or their pain. Even if it’s monitored by a pain management doctor. Even if that severe pain relief is only offered like 5 times a week. Instead severe chronic pain is offered to push through it, meditation, redo your values, goals. When there is a ready solution that can be given to them just as easily as is given to the drug addict on the street. It’s mind boggling. Totally mind boggling. Suicide is a better choice compared to chronic severe pain of 7-9/10 on a daily or every other day basis. Not an accidental overdose. A choice not to live with severe chronic pain.

[zanzah_]

My whole life. I didn't realise my severe depression and avoidance personality were due to a lifetime of exhaustion from chronic pain. My circle doesn't understand. I have developed a 15 year cannibas addiction. I don't want to live like this anymore.

[katethediddetective]

I get depressed due to pain, i want to live but cant. You doctors have no idea

[johnmitchell]

Its all in your mind Its all in your mind

[johnmitchell]

I believe you left out that most of the people who died from prescription opioids, the prescriptions weren't theirs. Please correct me if im wrong

[indermadan]

Any suggestion for a patient who is extremely drowsy due to pain killer in pneuropathy pain

[marielieful]

There are people who live in pain 27/4 365 over and over. They won't prescribe us pain meds because they include us with the addicts.

[johnmitchell]

Most doctors will not even take a chronic patient

[GodeeperBibleStudies]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you.

[jimkragelund]

Severe misunderstanding of chronic pain on thier part. I have lived with chronic pain for 45 yrs. They are full of crap!

[johnmitchell]

its easy to talk out of your ass when you're not suffering

[lisasenior]

Found this depressing. She didn't give any hope.

[marielieful]

This lady is incorrect there are conditions that have no clue

[Weissguys]

Okay, I can tell this is gonna just infuriate me from the comments alone. I hear you all. They don’t get us. I can’t bear to watch another video that blames me or people who misuse OUR needed pain meds for opioid abuse.

[commonsense]

Cart before the horse. No understanding of pain, chronic or otherwise. Treat the pain, not the depression. *SMH* Psychiatry thinks they have the answer to everything, but psychiatry at its roots has always been fraud. So it is here. Treating with CBT does nothing for pain. Again, treat the pain and other issues - sleeplessness, depression, etc., will resolve. *She's got the cart before the horse. Treat the pain*

[anitat]

This is disgusting and honestly extremely bad science.