It's a long and difficult process, but positive things can come out of it. A. Pain management is another area where psychology can be incredibly helpful. Psychological interventions help people to identify and control their pain. Pain is a subjective phenomenon. Psychologists can give patients a language to talk about pain with help from a rating scale.
Patients note when the pain is most intense and what they are doing.
Maybe it's worse at four o'clock in the afternoon, maybe at night. Let's learn about it. The psychologist can also suggest anti-depressants to help the experience of pain by raising the pain threshold. Also, some patients are afraid of pain medication like morphine because they fear becoming addicted. In fact, that's not an issue with pain medication.