Balancing a career with a chronic health condition can feel like two jobs. Managing treatments, appointments, symptoms, and ...

What if most emotional pain isn't actually trauma? Here's why conflating these experiences limits healing and why learning the difference can bolster your resilience.

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says.

That’s not being dramatic or making things up. Your body might be reacting to emotional memories with very real pain signals, and it’s more common than you’d think. Our brains don’t always ...

Chronic pain—or pain that lasts at least three months—is closely intertwined with depression. Individuals living with pain's ...

If the cause of the pain is an infection — a recent study has unveiled a “game changer” antibiotic drug that could help with ...

Patients with difficult-to-diagnose conditions like endometriosis are often sent home with diagnoses like anxiety or bipolar ...

What if the answer to this persistent pain isn’t physical, but emotional? Metahealth is an integrative model that is challenging the way we think about pain and illness. Unlike conventional ...

In a sense, the unconscious nervous system signaling that causes chronic pain is equally reflexive. Beneath consciousness, each of us has an emotional reservoir that holds the extent of our grief ...

A large Australian study has found that patients prescribed medicinal cannabis experienced lasting improvements in quality of ...