High unexpressed anger in multiple sclerosis patients linked to nervous system damage, not disease severity
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 - 10:35
in Health & Medicine
People with multiple sclerosis (MS) feel more than twice as much withheld anger as the general population, but expressed anger levels are similar. Researchers were surprised by the results from the 195 MS patients. They also found that elevated withheld anger levels were not related to the severity of the patients' MS. This suggests that these inconsistent changes were caused by nervous system damage, rather than an emotional reaction to the stress of the disease.