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Effectively Managing Pain With Depression
ScienceDaily (May 30, 2009) — Pain, the most common reason for adults to visit a primary care physician, and depression, the most frequent mental complaint requiring a doctor's appointment, occur together as often as half the time.
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More study on the basic science and clinical levels needs to be done on both pain and the link between pain and depression, which may share common biological pathways, to develop better options," said Dr. Kroenke, an Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Chancellor's Professor.
The 250 individuals in the JAMA study had low back, hip, or knee pain for three months or longer and at least moderate depression. They were randomized into two groups. The control group of 127 received usual care from their internists for both depression and pain. The other 123 received careful monitoring of the medications prescribed for their depression plus 12 weeks of pain self-management training. This training included muscle relaxation and deep breathing exercises as well as coping, distraction and other tactics.
Those whose depression medications were closely monitored and who were trained in pain self- management were two to three times more likely to have decreased depression than those in the control group.
Pain severity and disability also lessened. These benefits continued for the six months after optimising antidepressant therapy and pain self-management had been completed.
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Effectively Managing Pain With Depression
%0% of people with pain have depression; interesting statistic.
I have always thought of depression as a type of pain anyway- Literally" Heartache".- Perhaps the reason heartsease (
Viola tricolour) may help?
This is the post I don't understand
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paigetheoracle
Re: Depression (Clinical)
I've realized that there is a kind of psychological cycle like manic-depression or bipolar disease but it is based on conscious frustration, trying to reach your goal and disappointment when you do (distance and unattainability versus attainment and proximity: Snippet in give away paper, Metro, stated that researchers in America had discovered a link between masculinity and distance in fruit flies). This is also the basis of energy and lack of it (depression and going nowhere, and elation, through having a goal to move (inspire) you into action).
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