Sadness Fear Anger Love Disgust Happiness You started your journey in life with a lingering deep sadness, born into this world knowing only negative energy from such a young age. This deeply rooted sadness eventually made you distrust to world and become fearful in life. As you began to grow, your feelings of fear turned into anger as you felt increasingly isolated. However, you eventually found what you believed to be your soulmate and fell in love, but these positive feelings eventually faded as you found yourself disgusted with them always being around within your everyday life and you drifted apart. You had grown so use to being alone as a child that you began to find a sense of happiness in this loneliness. This is why you are being gifted anxiety. Anxiety can make us shut down and become internalized. We perceive this isolation as a positive at times, but this begins to shrink our world and increase our anxiety, reducing our ability to engage with the world. ------------------- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7013389/ Adverse childhood experiences often bring undesirable consequences. There is evidence that experience of childhood trauma may lead to anxiety and long-term pain in adulthood [1,2,3], which may also reach the level of psychopathology [4,5,6]. Moreover, in a clinical setting many patients with anxiety symptoms report some pain condition and, vice versa, many patients with chronic pain suffer from anxiety. Research on anxiety symptoms and pain has increased rapidly in recent decades [7,8,9,10,11]. Although they have already been extensively studied, the links between childhood trauma and symptoms of anxiety and pain should be explored further to better understand the underlying common processes [12,13,14,15]. This study compares a community sample reporting anxiety and long-term pain conditions with a clinical sample of patients with anxiety or adjustment disorders reporting pain, regarding a history of childhood trauma. The control samples consist of individuals from the community reporting no chronic conditions and those reporting some chronic conditions but not anxiety or/and pain.