Welcome to the series Why You Should See a Pain Management Psychiatrist. People with pain also develop psychiatric disorders. For example, depression (8-50% of patients with pain), anxiety (19-50%), PTSD (10%), sleep disturbance (50% or more), and drug and alcohol problems (3-19%) are common in patients with pain. Let’s look at some important issues related to treating these […]

Welcome to the series Why You Should See a Pain Management Psychiatrist. When I see someone for psychiatric pain management, I initially do a psychiatric evaluation which includes these areas: 1. Prior psychiatric functioning and psychiatric diagnoses This lets me understand if someone has had difficulty with anxiety, depression, sleep, etc, even before confronting a pain disorder. If […]

This article is part of our series How You Can Benefit from Psychiatric Pain Management. Comprehensive pain treatment – seeing several different types of health care providers – works best. Why should you work with a health care team? 1. Pain is complicated and takes a team of experts to help get you better Pain is complicated and is caused by many […]

This is a series about psychiatric pain management. We’ll learn what it is and figure out if you might benefit from this treatment. If your doctor has recommended that you considering seeing a pain management psychiatrist or psychologist, it might not be clear exactly why this might be helpful. You might think, Does my doctor think my pain is all […]