What Is Psychogenic Pain?

Psychological pain is the sort of negative emotional mental experience that characterizes certain types of mental disorders, for example depression and anxiety disorders. Borderline personality disorder is commonly associated with extreme levels of emotional distress and pain and psychological pain. So this is a form of pain that doesn't seem to really have any connection to nose perception or the peripheral nervous system at all but nevertheless is a real and important form of pain. It may have quite different mechanisms from other types of pain as well so we need to be careful there about use of labels.