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Chronic Pain Side Effects: The chronic pain of many people bothers many people and they make a million attempts to get rid of it. Now it has been found in a study that chronic pain can make people a patient of depression.
People can be a victim of depression due to chronic pen.
Highlights
- The risk of depression can increase by 4 times due to chronic pain.
- According to the study, 30% of people worldwide are struggling with chronic pain.
- Physical illnesses can also affect mental health.
Chronic pain and depression link: Many people have pain problems, which bothers people for years. According to health experts, if a person has pain for 3 months or more continuously, then he is considered a chronic pen. Chronic pen affects people’s lives badly and also increases the risk of many other problems. A recent study has revealed that the risk of depression from chronic pen may increase 4 times. Depression is a mental problem, in which people feel sad, disappointment and stress. Depression also affects Mental Health as well as physical health.
You will be surprised to know that about 30% of people worldwide are struggling with some old pain. Apart from this, about 10% of people have more than one place in the body. The study found that there is a high risk of depression in case of pain in more than one part of the body. According to Dustin Sheenost, Professor of the Department of Radiology of Yale School of Medicine, the pain is not just the body, it also affects the mind. New research shows that physical illnesses can also affect mental health.
According to study scientists, due to inflammation in the body, pain and depression can also be related to each other. A protein associated with inflammation can help understand the C-Reactive protein pain and depression links. This study is based on the data of more than 4 lakh 31 thousand people of UK Biobank, which were followed for 14 years. The pain was divided into parts like head, face, neck, back, abdomen, waist, knee and normal pain.
In the study, it was found that the pain is in any part of the body, if it remains for a long time, then it increases the possibility of depression. According to researchers, most people consider mental health to be different from other parts of the body like heart or liver, but the reality is that all our body parts affect each other. If the reasons behind pain and depression are understood further deeply, then it can help to find treatment.
