The instinctual response to hearing the word 'pain' is to look for a physical injury-perhaps a broken bone, sprained ankle, or a raging migraine. We tend to associate pain with something tangible, ...

When dealing with unpleasant emotions, some people talk things out, some channel their feelings into a creative endeavor, and some focus their energy on altruistic actions. Self-harmers, on the other ...

As a woman, what kind of stress might make me ill? is the kind of situation that creates emotional pain that doesn't seem to be resolvable. And I have many patients who come in and talk to me ...

Have you ever experienced pain so profound that it makes you feel as though you may never heal? Have you ever been controlled by emotional pain such that it becomes the only dominant force within ...

A sentencing judge commented that a smashed iPhone was more than a criminal damage case and that it caused emotional pain to ...

Rumi I woke up to the sharp whistle of a goods train in the early hours of the morning. The railway track runs ...

When does emotional pain become unbearable? Suicide, some observers believe, is less an attempt to end one’s own life than to escape the mental pain of endless negative thoughts, reliving life ...

However, scientists have only just started to look into how meditation might reduce the emotional impact of pain.” The study, to be published in the journal Pain, found that particular areas of the ...

Luigi Mangione’s transformation from a promising academic star to an accused murderer encapsulates the interplay of evolutionary instincts, physical struggles, and societal pressures. His ...