Re: Can anxiety make a real pain 100x worse than what it is?.
Real pain can feel worse if you are an anxious person yes, because your muscles will be in a constant state of tension. Also you will be focused on the pain much more than someone without health anxiety so it will feel more intense. There are a number of threads about this actually...people who have been so convinced there was something serious going on.
The fact is that although the pains are not imaginary, worrying about them causes stress which creates alot of tension and can make aches and pains much worse.
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