Coping with emotional and physical pain

    About half of American adults report that they have chronic pain. Physical pain has an effect on our emotional well-being, and researchers are learning that physical and emotional pain are connected in more ways than expected. In their weekly conversation, WHYY’s Behavioral Health reporter Maiken Scott and Dan Gottlieb discussed new science on pain.

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