ABSTRACT
One of the most frightening things that can occur to a patient with chronic headache is to be thought of as “crazy”. Just asking patients to consider talking to a psychologist is tantamount to calling them crazy, from their perspective. Many people think of a depressed person as someone who sits in the corner crying. Depression is an organic problem, one that can hurt if it is not dealt with along with the other physical problems clinicians have diagnosed. Chronic daily headache may certainly, at least at first, garner the sufferer more attention and affection and a release from doing whatever they do not want to do. Unfortunately, the bloom comes off of this rose, but the time it takes to happen may be different for each person. Fear of the unknown, particularly of the meaning of something unexplained, such as headache, may increase anxiety and depression, which will increase the pain and give patient more reason to be afraid.
