What is the correlation between mental stress and physical pain?

Answer 1

As a mental health practitioner with 20+ years experience, now retired, I can tell you that there can be a direct and 100% correlation between the two. That's one reason that the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders, where all mental health diagnoses come from, has an entire section entitled "Somatoform Disorders", which is a section of 5 specific physical disorders related to mental stress, one of which is specifically entitled "Pain Disorder Associated with Psychological Factors" (307.80), and another "Pain Disorder Associated With Both Psychological Factors and a General Medical Condition (307.89), and 2 more general or global Somatoform diagnoses. You can find a copy of that diagnostic manual in any good library or good bookstore, or maybe in a counselor's office or psychiatrist's office. God Bless you.

Answer 2

After long periods of stress the mind cause the body to have pain .The mind would rather be distracted by the pain then spin in the stress.