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Treating Mental Pain: How to Lessen Psychological Suffering

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Chronic illness brings physical suffering from symptoms, but it also creates mental suffering, caused by things like worry, uncertainty, regret, guilt and grief.
 
Physical suffering may be addressed with medications and lifestyle changes, but treating mental suffering calls for a separate set of strategies. The articles in this series focus on ways to ease the second type of suffering, psychological pain.