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For many with chronic headaches, the anxiety-laden anticipation of an episode could be as debilitating as the pain itself
USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Feb, 2008
For many with chronic headaches, the anxiety-laden anticipation of an episode could be as debilitating as the pain itself. An important predictor of adjustment to pain is catastrophizing, the exaggerated anxious mental state brought on during a pain experience. Studies suggest that changes in catastrophizing can help reduce pain intensity.
Accordingly, neurological researchers at the University of Alabama, Montgomery, have shown that chronic headache patients who are exposed to intensive cognitive therapy to mediate their catastrophizing report significant changes in their headache management self-efficacy compared with control subjects. There also are dramatic post-treatment differences in headache frequency, peak intensity, depression, and anxiety.
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