Depression favors the headache?
Written by:The headache is a condition extremely varied, with uncertain boundaries and changing, we must try to define first to examine its relationship with depression. The Mongini Professor , expert in neurology , talks about the close relationship between depression and pain in the head.
Headache: types and symptoms
The pain tests more common among the world's population are of two types, and are also distinguished by the type of pain that cause:
- Tension headache
This type of headache tightens and oppresses, and is described by patients as a hood or a circle to the head
- Migraine
In this case, the symptoms are more like a throbbing pain, bruising, relentless, very often associated with nausea and vomiting.
Unfortunately, the distinction is not so clear. In fact, very often, patients have both kinds of pain, alternating or overlapping. Not to mention that, especially in the female population, the headache is associated with other annoyances (sprains, swelling, tingling etc.).
Commonplaces about headaches
All these "evils head" may be the result of several factors: hormonal disorders, vascular or nervous disorders of the muscles of the face, neck and shoulders or psychological factors.
Many people accept their headaches in a fatalistic, not to make the victims or for fear of the consequences, such as discovering that you have an incurable disease.
In particular, a depressive disorder is often associated with both pain just described and headaches of long standing, and, especially in women, can manifest as anxiety or physical distress.
In fact, modern society does not tolerate depression. Instead, the disease is perceived as a sin, as something from which you can easily free, only wanting. The real hardships are trivialized and belittled, bringing the patient to doubt himself.
The mocking attitude is deeply flawed, especially against a person suffering a lot, both physically and mentally.
A depressive disorder can affect the headache?
Interesting results of a study we carried out with the participation of 56 women with migraine: before treatment, they were asked to write down for a month on a diary the frequency, severity and duration of their headaches. Also, they have been carried out on them of psychological tests to detect the presence of a possible depression.
Six years later, the results showed a relationship between migraine and depression is not random: in fact, the patients "not improved" had a much higher rate of depression than the group of "improved".
These data demonstrate, therefore, that, with the same severity of migraine headaches, depression can favor the return of pain.
Its presence is rapidly detected and treated simultaneously with headaches.