When you feel emotional pain, why do you sometimes feel physical pain as well?

Question

ex. When you feel sorrow, your heart hurts, and your throat becomes tight.

Answer 1

Absolutely ... that first leads to depression, if not subsides, will leads to other psychological damages much as dementia, hallucinations, and ultimately psychotic disorders.

Answer 2

Yes emotional pain does cause physical pain. I have gone though it and it is horrible. Try to resolve whatever is causing this, it can go on for a long time if you let it, trust me I know.

Answer 3

Yes, your body's systems are interlinked - the stress resulting from the issue will cause biological responses.
Pain is nature's way of telling you something is broken or threatened , and a person's social / emotional survival is a definite part of that.

Answer 4

Only wusses feel sad and deserve physical pain...

Idk your brain controls everything and can pretty easily tell you what hurts and what doesn't. For instance people with lost limbs feel sensations like they still have an arm. There brain tricks itself into believe it's still receiving signals so your brain can do anything.

I don't know about it actually creating cancer but it can help "not" fighting the cancer.

Answer 5

yes, absolutely.
getting sick to your stomach when nervous etc.
your brain and body are not actually separate.
they are part of the same system and affect each other.
your emotions will not be great when you're in physical pain either.
it's one system. of course.
check out "fear tension pain" syndrome...
well known in childbirth and other areas.

Answer 6

well take it from experiance. i have had anxiety for many. wont take meds though. even though i should.and yes u will feelemotional and physical pain.it is real. its sobconsience. it is real though

Answer 7

now can you imagine why and how we get cancer???? emotions play a part in illnesses BIG TIME.