No doubt about it in my mind!
The way I see it and experience it in real life is that the physical and emotional are very much interrelated. If my body is in pain my psyche is in pain. When my psyche is in pain my body begins to feel pain.
Just today my son showed me he got a bad wound from a bad fall on concrete...I looked, I needed to assess the damage and see what kind of treatment he'd need....and as I looked I felt psychic pain and then a piercing pain went through my body. So for me, tis all connected.
I have been diagnosed with myofacial pain/fibromyalgia. So on lots of days I feel pain in my muscles, joints, or if I bump into a wall I will have pain for a few days right there where I bumped....
The pain is definitely accompanied by irritability, sadness, psychic pain.
On those very rare days when I can go through the day without pain (not carry any bags, not bend to pick up toys from the floor, not get worked up with the children) I definitely see an improved mood! I am cheerful and hopeful! And then when the pain returns I'm back to feeling sad and hopeless.
Wish we can abolish chronic pain for good!
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