How Pain Tolerance and Anxiety Seem to Be Connected

The medication for anxiety (Xanax):

Anxiety is a usual disease that needs to be treated by the right path of medication. There is a penalty of therapy and medicine available in the market, which claims to treat anxiety. However, most of the medicines are not effective in the long term. Many of the medicines have withdrawal effects in the case of prolonged use. Few medicine or therapy has harmful withdrawal effects and few are additive in nature. These medicines might be habit-forming or injurious to health, especially to children, old adults, or pregnant women.

Xanax, the generic name Alprazolam, is the most suitable and effective medicine for anxiety. Usually, it comes with a strength of 2 mg. And the dosage of Xanax is standardized up to 2 tablets a day.

Moreover, maintenance dosage to cure the withdrawal process at the end is exceeded up to 3 mg to 6 mg. The maximum maintenance dosage is exceeded up to 10 mg per day.

1 mg xanax blue is used to treat anxiety disorders and anxiety caused by depression. Xanax is also used to treat panic disorders with or without a fear of places and situations that might cause panic, helplessness, or embarrassment (agoraphobia).

How Pain Tolerance and Anxiety Seem to Be Connected:

The dimension of pain tolerance and Anxiety is connected to the mental state of the person. Literature shows that lower levels of pain tolerance are often associated with depression and fear of future disability, frustration, anger, lower activity levels, reduced pleasure, isolation, disruption of intimate relationships, a sense of demotivation, and detachment from the world.

An increase in pain tolerance is the realization of suffering is an important resilience factor, which helps people to alleviate the suffering that often comes with pain and anxiety.

Moreover, the pain tolerance could be harmful to the patient.

The notion that the same gene could be responsible for the way a person processes physical or psychological pain left many perplexed.

Rejection is as similar to physical pain:

The professor of the psychology department, University of California, Los Angeles, Naomi Eisenberger believes that the brain processes physical pain and the social pain that result from rejection. Moreover, the professor found that the result from the rejection is similar to physical pain to sensitive people, which makes them more upset.

Another theory is that when someone close to the patient dies it has a huge impact on the patient’s behaviors

Low-anxiety people feel less pain in comparison to high anxious people:

The normal case patients with anxiety issues make the perception of worse pain. The consultant of King’s college hospital in London Adam Woo worked with many symptomatic patients and found  two patients are facing the exact same kind of injury, the one with more anxiety tends to have a “higher complaint score.”

Anxious people seem to have a lower pain threshold:

Debra Kissen, executive director of Light on Anxiety explains the way that anxiety and physical pain can amplify each other. Afflicted with chronic pain, a person may start to feel anxious that they have no control over their body. Then their anxiety may increase their focus on the pain, exacerbating it. Treat either one and it will sometimes help both.

Connection of pain and anxiety:

There is an association between anxiety and mental pain. Moreover, according to the study of Ms. Cameron, the scientists who studied many cases of anxiety and also worked with people who did not experience pain clearly found the association of pain and anxiety at the same time in the same person. Dr. James Cox, a senior lecturer from the Molecular Nociception Group at University College London quotes that,” Reduced anxiety has not really been noted before in the other pain insensitivity disorders we work on.”

Process of mental pain and physical pain:

Patients with depression often report pain. Evidence regarding altered pain sensitivity in depressed patients remains, however, inconclusive. In a large cross-sectional study we investigated the association between depression and pain sensitivity with regard to 2 different dimensions of pain sensitivity, as well as the effect of somatic cofactors, symptom severity, and subtype of depression. Additionally, lifestyle factors, medical, and psychiatric conditions were assessed. Unadjusted, patients with depression had lower PPTs and higher PSQ-minor scores indicating increased pain sensitivity. After adjusting for potential mediators, such as poor sleep quality and physical inactivity, patients did not differ from control participants regarding PPTs but still had significantly higher PSQ-minor ratings. Among patients with depression, the severity of anxiety symptoms predicted higher PSQ-minor scores. In conclusion, we found a differential effect of depression on the 2 pain sensitivity dimensions: Decreased experimentally obtained pain thresholds were explained by depression-associated somatic factors whereas increased self-rated suprathreshold pain intensity ratings were associated with increased anxiety symptoms.

The perspective of pain intention is hypothesized to be a risk factor for the development of chronic pain, our findings may contribute to understanding the high incidence of chronic pain in depressed patients. They also encourage clinicians to consider the role of anxiety in treatment programs for pain in patients with depression.

Medication to treat depression and anxiety:

There are two medications suggested by the medical professional. However, it can only consider one part of the therapy.

• An antidepressant, which is generally the first choice to prevent future panic attacks.
• An anti-anxiety prescription drug such as Xanax (Alprazolam). For people with substance use disorders, doctors may prescribe other medications.

Moreover, the medical treatment benefits can appear through a slight change of the lifestyle of the patient.

Following habits can lead to a better treatment path if the patient adds them to its daily life routine.

• Yoga or deep breathing may relax your body and lower stress.
• Exercise can help calm your mind and offset potential side effects of medication, such as weight gain.
• Stay away from alcoholic drinks, caffeine, smoking, and recreational drugs, which can trigger attacks.
• Get enough sleep, so you don’t feel draggy during the day.

Moreover, Some research shows that acupuncture, the Chinese technique of inserting thin needles into the body to control the flow of energy, may help.

As for dietary supplements, there’s not enough research showing that they work to reduce panic attacks. One, called inositol, showed some promise in small studies, but it’s too soon to know how well it works. Be sure to check with your doctor before trying any supplements, because they could have side effects or conflict with medication.