How does anger affect my chronic pain?

Experts call anger a pain modifier, and it is an important part of chronic pain management. Some people are able to come to grips with anger and process it in healthy ways. For others, anger erodes their quality of life.

Forget about physical pain for a moment. Instead, visualize a day when you were angry with a relative, co-worker or a troubling situation. What was your quality of life like that day?

Not great, right? When you add in physical pain, the day can become intolerable. In this way, a treacherous cycle forms.

You experience chronic pain in addition to the rest of your life stresses. The pain produces anxiety because you don’t know where it’s coming from and you don’t get adequate answers from your doctor. Over time, you become angry about the pain, the lack of answers, the dashed hopes, and your loss of control.

As your nervous system gets more and more fired up, your pain increases -- and in turn feeds back into the cycle. Anger is an understandable response to chronic pain, and some experts feel that the more legitimate your anger, the harder it is to let go. Therefore, learning techniques to cope with anger in a constructive way can help calm the nervous system and physically decrease your pain.

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