Emotional Pain

Emotional Pain is something that is quite often overlooked or looked at as though it is not real pain. However, its effects are real. People are often debilitated by what happens to them emotionally as they are by what happens to them physically. In Pain.com's attempt to become Your Pain Management Resource Center, we will bring you news, articles, and diagnoses and treatment breakthroughs dealing with emotional pain issues. As well as listing for emotional pain support centers.

Given this is the time of year when so many are affected by:

• Memories of lost or unsuccessful relationships
• Seeming shortcomings of how the year should have or could have gone
• Recollections of the departed
• Feelings of inadequacy due to some uncontrollable outside force
• Pressure of a culmination of financial strains

This is a time when we need to remember that we don't have to tackle painful issues alone. There are support systems in place. Sometimes it only takes knowing that others share your situation, understand your grief, or struggle with the same issues to allow you to persevere.

For Example: There is a wonderful little center located in San Antonio, Texas that helps children deal with the loss of a parent, sibling of grandparent. The Children's Bereavement Center of South Texas provides counseling to children having experienced a loss in effort to allow them to come to terms with the situation, normalize their feelings, and grow emotionally. They can be contacted at 210-736-HUGS (4847) or http://www.cbcst.org/.

Throughout the country, you will find support groups for a variety of issues. Often times the difficulty comes with finding the resource that can help. That is why Pain.com is starting a registry of support groups. To list your support group, Go to our community forum and provide the details under the heading Support Groups. You can start a new discussion group for your specific group to provide visibility. During this time of gathering, friendship, and reaching out to others. Let's reach out to those who really need support and provide them with the tools to overcome their painful obstacles.

Each new day brings possibility and hope.