Except for patients with a history of addictive behavior, pain experts say the potential benefit of narcotic therapy for chronic pain often outweighs the risk. "It’s a matter of balance," says Chou.

Online Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Emotion Dysregulation in People With Chronic Pain. JAMA Network Open, 2025; 8 (5): e256908 DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.6908; ...

Learning how to regulate negative emotions like anxiety could ease chronic pain.Scientists have found that a form of therapy that partly focuses on tolerating distress relieved ongoing discomfort ...

Chronic pain is the most common reason that people seek medical care. However, people living with high-impact chronic pain—pain that limits daily activities on all or most days for three months ...

Biblical King Herod The Great Had Chronic Kidney Disease PHAS/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Herod I, the Roman king of Judea, is best known for his appearance in the Bible. He was a real ...

Chronic pain can result from nervous-system overload that creates physical symptoms in response to repressed emotions, therapist Nicole Sachs says. CNN values your feedback 1.

Evening, Edvard Munch, 1888 Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza Born in 1863, Munch endured bouts of illness throughout his childhood. As a bedridden 17-year-old, he wrote in his diary, “It is my ...

Munch was the archetypal tortured young man. This we know. The Scream kind of gave the game away. Yet, as this exhibition shows, he wasn’t a complete loner. Along with his demons he had friends ...

(From left) Munch’s paintings Olga and Rosa Meissner, Daniel Jacobson and Kate and Hugo Perls on display in the Edvard Munch Portraits exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Roughly two in five adults living with chronic pain had depression and anxiety symptoms, a large systematic review and meta-analysis found. Among 347,468 individuals who had lived with persistent ...

There’s no separating the artist — any artist — from lived experience, though “Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking,” just opened at Harvard Art Museums, does its best.