Depression not only affects your brain and behavior—it affects your
entire body. Depression has been linked with other health problems,
including chronic pain. Dealing with more than one health problem at a
time can be difficult, so proper treatment is important.
What is chronic pain?
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for weeks, months, or even years. It often does not ease with regular pain medication.Chronic pain can have a distinct cause, such as a temporary injury or infection or a long-term disease. But some chronic pain has no obvious cause. Like depression, chronic pain can cause problems with sleep and daily activities, reducing your quality of life.
What is depression?
Major depressive disorder, or depression, is a serious mental illness. Depression interferes with your daily life and routine and reduces your quality of life.
Signs and Symptoms of Depression
Scientists don’t yet know how depression and chronic pain are linked, but the illnesses are known to occur together. Chronic pain can worsen depression symptoms and is a risk factor for suicide in people who are depressed.
Bodily aches and pains are a common symptom of depression. Studies show that people with more severe depression feel more intense pain. According to recent research, people with depression have higher than normal levels of proteins called cytokines. Cytokines send messages to cells that affect how the immune system responds to infection and disease, including the strength and length of the response. In this way, cytokines can trigger pain by promoting inflammation, which is the body’s response to infection or injury. Inflammation helps protect the body by destroying, removing, or isolating the infected or injured area. In addition to pain, signs of inflammation include swelling, redness, heat, and sometimes loss of function.
Many studies have found that inflammation may be a link between depression and illnesses that often occur with depression. One disorder that has been shown to occur with depression is fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia causes chronic, widespread muscle pain, tiredness, and multiple tender points—places on the body that hurt in response to light pressure. People with fibromyalgia are more likely to have depression and other mental illnesses than the general population.
How is depression treated in people who have chronic pain?
Depression is diagnosed and treated by our psychiatrists. Treating depression can help you manage your chronic pain and improve your overall health. Recovery from depression takes time but treatments are effective.
At present, the most common treatments for depression include:
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Address:
Cadabam’s Hospitals
No.280, 15th Cross, 5th Phase, JP Nagar, Bangalore – 560 078, India
Phone: +91 9741 476 476
Email: info@cadabamshospitals.com
What is chronic pain?
Chronic pain is pain that lasts for weeks, months, or even years. It often does not ease with regular pain medication.Chronic pain can have a distinct cause, such as a temporary injury or infection or a long-term disease. But some chronic pain has no obvious cause. Like depression, chronic pain can cause problems with sleep and daily activities, reducing your quality of life.
What is depression?
Major depressive disorder, or depression, is a serious mental illness. Depression interferes with your daily life and routine and reduces your quality of life.
Signs and Symptoms of Depression
- Ongoing sad, anxious, or empty feelings
- Feeling hopeless
- Feeling guilty, worthless, or helpless
- Feeling irritable or restless
- Loss of interest in activities or hobbies once enjoyable, including sex
- Feeling tired all the time
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering details, or making decisions
- Difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep, a condition called insomnia, or sleeping all the time
- Overeating or loss of appetite
- Thoughts of death and suicide or suicide attempts
- Ongoing aches and pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems that do not ease with treatment.
Scientists don’t yet know how depression and chronic pain are linked, but the illnesses are known to occur together. Chronic pain can worsen depression symptoms and is a risk factor for suicide in people who are depressed.
Bodily aches and pains are a common symptom of depression. Studies show that people with more severe depression feel more intense pain. According to recent research, people with depression have higher than normal levels of proteins called cytokines. Cytokines send messages to cells that affect how the immune system responds to infection and disease, including the strength and length of the response. In this way, cytokines can trigger pain by promoting inflammation, which is the body’s response to infection or injury. Inflammation helps protect the body by destroying, removing, or isolating the infected or injured area. In addition to pain, signs of inflammation include swelling, redness, heat, and sometimes loss of function.
Many studies have found that inflammation may be a link between depression and illnesses that often occur with depression. One disorder that has been shown to occur with depression is fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia causes chronic, widespread muscle pain, tiredness, and multiple tender points—places on the body that hurt in response to light pressure. People with fibromyalgia are more likely to have depression and other mental illnesses than the general population.
How is depression treated in people who have chronic pain?
Depression is diagnosed and treated by our psychiatrists. Treating depression can help you manage your chronic pain and improve your overall health. Recovery from depression takes time but treatments are effective.
At present, the most common treatments for depression include:
- Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), a type of psychotherapy, or talk therapy, that helps people change negative thinking styles and behaviors that may contribute to their depression
- While currently available depression treatments are generally well tolerated and safe, talk with our psychiatrists about side effects, possible drug interactions and other treatment options
- Medications can take several weeks to work, may need to be combined with ongoing psychotherapy, or may need to be changed or adjusted to minimize side effects and achieve the best results.
More information please visit this link : http://cadabamshospitals.com/
Address:
Cadabam’s Hospitals
No.280, 15th Cross, 5th Phase, JP Nagar, Bangalore – 560 078, India
Phone: +91 9741 476 476
Email: info@cadabamshospitals.com
