Sentences with phrase «psychological pain felt»

They evoked the mundane world where Clayton's psychological pain felt real and inescapable, yet they also evoked an imaginary place where he could feel safe, relaxed, and free.

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Much psychological pain is related to feeling isolated, alone, adrift and unconnected.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

While it should go without saying that severe joint pain can cause serious psychological distress, research has also suggested that beliefs about pain control and feelings of helplessness, emotional factors like anxiety and depression, and social support all play important roles in how we experience and adjust to pain.

Although stress in its most common context is primarily a psychological phenomenon, it is also closely tied to most aspects of the physiological functioning of our bodies, so whenever we feel stressed out for prolonged periods of time, our immune system suffers and the risk of getting sick or acquiring pain in some parts of the body is significantly increased.

Regular practice of Yoga Nidra meditation helps deal with psychological disorders and relieves negative feelings of depression, pain, etc..

He asked them to rate «the intensity of the pain they were in, its unpleasantness, and the positive and negative emotions they were feeling,» according to Christian Jarrett, PhD, who wrote about the study on the British Psychological Society's Research Digest blog.

Beyond its best little moments, the movie is addressing a serious issue, and it feels awfully churlish to complain that its earnest depictions of soldiers in psychological pain isn't novel enough, or that Koale's performance is a little shakier than Teller's, or that the movie doesn't have much to say about the Iraq War in particular, or that it eventually tries to pass off a lack of resolution as an abbreviated happy ending.

When your available credit increases, you feel less psychological pain about using your card and you end up spending more than you can afford, according to the Columbia University researchers.

The psychological pain of living in a world that is not constructed for one's body can, at times, feel insurmountable, but, together, these artists offer a space to unlearn preset values that create and inform «otherness.»

In this exhibition therefore we come upon a version of Sainte Sébastienne once again (drypoint in black and white on paper, 1992), as well as the Tryptych for the Red Rooms (1994) which offers an interpretation of the arch of hysteria, a figure that represents a physical and psychological state where pain and pleasure blend to produce feelings of arousal expressed through an erotic impulse.

Previous research has demonstrated that acetaminophen can have an effect on psychological pain, but the new study pushes it further by showing that it also reduces how much users actually feel positive emotions, said Geoffrey Durso, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in social psychology at The Ohio State University.

A dog bite can cause physical harm, pain, and psychological damage where people especially children feel vulnerable and insecure in their place of residence and neighborhood.

Enduring the financial, emotional, and psychological pain of separation from a partner you thought you'd spend your life with is excruciating, but it's a whole other thing to work through the lifelong process of fully healing from devastating loss of any kind.Maybe instead of sadness, you felt a sense of freedom and celebrated the end of your marriage with serial dating, late nights out, and extensive travel.

These can include feelings of sadness, anxiety, or hopelessness; loss of energy or interest; problems concentrating; and physical symptoms such as aches, pains, and sleeplessness.13 Not surprisingly, these psychological and physical symptoms interfere with mothers» day - to - day lives, sometimes to disastrous extremes.

Despite the fact that eating disorders are deadly and create enormous physical and psychological pain, they also serve important functions such as protection from intrusion, a sense of control when life feels chaotic, a way to make complex issues seem more manageable and many others.

Reliance on defenses against psychological pain that result in externalizing unwanted or unacceptable feelings, ideas, attitudes, and responsibility for misfortunes so that more painful internal conflict is transformed into less painful interpersonal conflict.