Seven out of 10 adolescents with mental health problems also suffer from chronic physical pain. Depressed girls suffer the most.
For the first time researchers have studied the kind of physical pain that troubles adolescents with different mental health problems.
Professor Marit Sæbø Indredavik at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) thinks that everyone working in the health care system, from medical doctors to psychologists, must be more aware of the chronic pain that can plague young people with mental health woes.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-02-depressed-girls.html
Full article in BMC Psychiatry: Chronic pain and pain-related disability across psychiatric disorders in a clinical adolescent sample
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