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Back Pain Personality
Back Pain Personality TraitsThere are many personality traits that are typically shared by chronic back pain patients. These traits are not negative, but do contribute to the actual cause of painful symptoms. The most common of these personality characteristics are:* Responsible. The patient is very conscientious and takes responsibility to heart. * Motivated The patient pushes themselves to excel in all things. The patient does not require outside motivation as their own personality is their main driving force. * Perfectionistic Small details matter to these patients. Mediocrity is never an option and success must be achieved in all endeavors. * Goodist The patient tries to be a good person all the time. They try hard to be liked and accepted, often going out of their way to please others. * Obsessive The patient often carries certain behaviors to the extreme. The obsession could be with a particular facet of the patient’s life or a general personality trait. * Generally upbeat The patient maintains a smiling face to cover up painful emotional issues hidden in their subconscious. The patient is not deceiving the world. They actually feel that things are good, since their emotional pain is repressed. Back Pain Personality ProblemsMost of these traits sound like excellent criteria to have in your character. Unfortunately, these traits also go against the childish needs of the ID. Everyone has an inner child that is angry, selfish, needy, insecure and illogical. This regressed personality never goes away in life, nor do we outgrow it. We simply learn an adult mindset on top of it and hope that the maturity of logic, education, morals, ethics and common sense can overpower the primal desires of the infant id. This internal conflict is a main source of psychological issues leading to the creation of psychosomatic back pain and other psychological pain syndromes.Back Pain Personality IssuesThere are other contributing factors to a back pain prone personality. These are the same factors that often cause or contribute to other psychosomatic pain syndromes or destructive behaviors:* History of physical, emotional or sexual abuse. * Product of a broken home. * Loss of a loved one in formative years. * Emotionally sensitive, especially to criticism. * Bad relationship with family. * Tremendous guilt or regret over some action or inaction. * Inordinate worry or fear of the future. * Deep repressed feelings of inadequacy and insecurity. * Unhappy lifestyle in the past or present. * Having to give up your goals to care for others. * Repressed Sexual Identity * Thoughts or actions that are contrary to one's accepcted religion or belief system. Recommendation on a Back Pain PersonalityLike many other psychosomatic pain patients, I read a tremendous amount of written material concerning the psychological reasons why we experience pain. Like others, I found myself described so accurately by many of the traits on this list of personality criteria. What I have learned is that the majority of these traits are extremely common in the population. With each passing generation, people become more and more prone to developing these pain generating personality characteristics, which accounts for the drastic increase in psychosomatic pain syndromes, including the back pain epidemic.If you find your personality described on this page and have treatment resistant back pain, I can almost guarantee that you too have psychologically induced symptoms. It might be a difficult idea to get used to, but it is the truth. It is not your fault that you are the way you are. Your personality was formed long before you had a choice in how you would develop. You can not be held responsible for your personality any more than your height, eye color or skin shade. The important thing is to learn to accept yourself and the psychological nature of your pain. Once you do this, you will be amazed at how quickly the pain can depart, never to return again.
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