Is Pain A Symptom Of Depression? 💙

Is pain a symptom of depression? The short answer is yes. The long answer is also yes, but it's actually a bit more interesting. So when people go to the doctor and they have depression, they don't often go to the doctor and say, I think I've got depression.💙

They go in with a variety of physical symptoms, one of which is pain. So that can be back pain, it can be joint pain, it can be muscle aches, it can be headaches, it can be migraines. And there's also other physical symptoms such as insomnia or not sleeping well, gut problems, digestive problems, fatigue, tiredness, heart palpitations.💙

I was actually looking at a science paper yesterday which showed a direct correlation between the number of these kind of non-specific physical symptoms and how likely the person was to have an actual mood disorder.💙

So that's the long answer, but both the long answer and the short answer are that yes, pain can be one of the physical symptoms of depression.💙

https://www.epicentering.com/blog/is-pain-a-symptom-of-depression