Can mood changes affect headaches?

  We often encounter various unpleasant things in our work and life, showing emotional changes such as anger, rage, excitement, anxiety and tension, and many of us will feel general discomfort, reduced appetite and vague headache as a result. These emotional changes can often trigger a migraine attack or worsen the pain of an ongoing migraine attack. Migraine patients are more reactive to emotional factors such as tension than normal people, and because most migraine patients are agile and intelligent, their self-esteem is high, they are angry, stubborn and withdrawn, or they are a special kind of compulsive ideas or delusions, they are more vulnerable to emotional changes, and these adverse stimuli can be transmitted upward through the corresponding receptors and conductors to the cerebral cortex and the higher centers specializing in emotional activities, namely “limbic system”, and the limbic system in turn quickly notifies the signal of mood changes to the higher phytonotropic center in the hypothalamus, prompting the pituitary gland to secrete relevant hormones, resulting in sympathetic excitation, increased adrenaline in the blood, increased concentration of carcinogenic substances, accelerated blood flow, and partial cerebral vasodilation and headache. For tension headache, long-term anxiety, depression, tension and other emotional changes are the main causes of this kind of headache. As early as 1953, it was found that almost all patients with tension headache have significant anxiety, which is manifested as obvious psychological tension, emotional instability, depression, and depression, and it is also difficult to achieve results if treatment is carried out under emotionally unstable conditions (such as anger, anger). Hypertensive dwelling headaches also worsen when there is a dramatic change in mood. According to psychologists, the emotions of fear, anxiety and disappointment can also lower the threshold level of pain. Therefore, we should pay attention to cultivate our own open-minded character, optimistic mood, pleasant mood, overcome the bad habits and shortcomings in our personality, and maintain a healthy and happy state of mind, which can not only reduce the pain of pain, but also benefit our health and prevent the occurrence of certain diseases.