The Impact of Chronic Pain on Anxiety

Anxiety is a healthy emotion right can be beneficial and it can protect us from harm's way. But the thing about anxiety is that it can kind of take a toll and start functioning in a way that overrides all those other symptoms or those systems. In this situation where I was feeling extremely anxious All of this attention that I was putting on my current situation So what was happening for me is that my attention Rather than focusing on the day-to-day that I wasn't happy with and that was making me anxious. And so a lot of people with chronic pain What occurs is to avoid this sort of anxiety response in this feeling of fear? That’s associated with that every day

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