Jackie Windham

Exploring the Role of Pain Flashbacks in Chronic Pain Following Interpersonal Trauma Findings demonstrate the high comorbidity of complex/posttraumatic stress disorder (C/PTSD) and chronic pain following exposure to trauma. In exposure to child abuse (CA) in particular, findings imply that CA survivors are at greater risk of developing chronic pain. However, the underlying mechanisms of these processes yet to be uncovered. This study proposes and investigates a new mechanism pertaining to the...

Chronic pain is pain that lasts a long time. When you have pain for months or years it can affect your daily life and emotional health. Learn how chronic pain and PTSD can be related, often making the symptoms of each worse. There are effective treatments for PTSD and ways to manage chronic pain that can help. Reading time: 6 minutes What is chronic pain? Chronic pain is pain that lasts longer than expected for a given injury or may have an unknown cause. This differs from acute pain that...

Children whose families and homes do not provide consistent safety, comfort, and protection may develop ways of coping that allow them to survive and function day to day. For instance, they may be overly sensitive to the moods of others, always watching to figure out what the adults around them are feeling and how they will behave. They may withhold their own emotions from others, never letting them see when they are afraid, sad, or angry. These kinds of learned adaptations make sense when...