Depression and Anxiety - Predictors of Postoperative Pain

Kameliya Tsvetanova

Abstract: Any feeling of pain has both a sensory / psychological component and an emotional one regardless of the fact whether the source of pain is exactly identified. Feeling for pain may arise not only at tissue damage but also in the conditions of risk of their impairment as well as at absence of any damaging impact. Many authors describe acute pain as complex experience at which the psychological factors as beliefs and significance related to pain, the momentary social situation, the personality, the emotional status and factors from the past, play an exceptionally significant role.

Keywords: anxiety, depression, pain