Sanjay Gupta
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If so, what was that like?
Do you have depression?
Do you have anxiety?
Do you have poor sleep?
What's your diet like?
What's the weather like outside?
Pain is a sensory, emotional experience.
Both.
And they added the word emotional into this not that long ago.
And as Robert Jensen, who's a doc at Mayo Clinic, said to me, chronic pain never occurs in isolation.
It always occurs with baggage attached.
And again, I don't want people to hear that and feel like, oh, now you're saying it's because of my depression.
Pain can cause depression, but depression can also cause pain.
But I think the point and the message that I really took away from that was you have to address both.
Acute pain is one thing.
You know, someone has a trauma or something like that, that's different.
But when the pain is lasting for a while, it always comes with baggage attached.
Maybe the pain is causing that baggage.
Maybe the baggage is exacerbating that pain.
But you have to address both.