Chronic pain—once considered just a symptom, but now a disease in its own right— has been estimated to affect between 30-50% of the world population. It has become an important public health problem costing society in excess $635 billion annually due to health care costs and lost productivity. Given the lack of media attention and…
Unbearable feelings Some feelings are too powerful to bear alone. If this is so, they remain not only unexpressed but unacknowledged. However they have to go somewhere or be dealt with in some way, so human beings employ defences like denial, repression, displacement being the most familiar, or they get split off and attributed…