Overwhelm: too much all at once Imagine you are sitting at a dinner table with a lovely heaping plate of food in front of you. If you think to yourself, “I should eat this entire plate right now” and then try to jam it into your mouth all at once, you will not be able[…]
It sounds strange to say there’s an emotional dynamic we have with illness or pain conditions, but it’s absolutely true. Anything we must interact with on a daily basis, which affects our life, causes loss, frustration and alienation, which demands our attention and which we strive to understand, we end up in a relationship with.[…]
How the heart reacts to anger seems to predict who’s at risk for a life-threatening irregular heartbeat. Negative emotions like hostility and depression have long been considered risk factors for developing heart disease. But research released Monday goes a step farther, uncovering a telltale pattern in the electrocardiograms (known as ECGs or EKGs) of certain[…]
January 30, 2009 A Report from Northwestern University This illustration shows the brain from the left side, demonstrating the differences in brain function between patients with chronic pain and patients with no chronic pain. In a new study, investigators at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine have identified a clue that may explain how suffering[…]