But sometimes physical pain can become chronic, long outlasting its original purpose, and emotional pain is the same.
"Usually a negative life event causes the insomnia, but catastrophizing, negative thinking and worrying make the insomnia become chronic, " says Sivertsen.
The curious question is why the inflammation would become chronic in atherosclerosis, when in the case of most infections it is transient.
This knowledge makes it essential to identify and treat those whose emotional pain is likely to become chronic, causing debilitating depression or even death.
Though all types of viral hepatitis are associated with serious health issues, hepatitis B and C can become chronic infections that often lead to liver cirrhosis or liver cancer.
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Some people who get salmonella infection become chronic carriers, meaning they continue to excrete the bacteria in their feces or, rarely, urine for a year or more after their signs and symptoms clear up.
In Connecticut, where utility rates are the highest in the U.S. after Hawaii, residents who once adored living in an urban forest are getting increasingly frustrated by massive power failures that many fear could become a chronic problem.
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Those problems can be caught in early stages if a child has access to regular medical care, and can be managed before they become difficult or chronic.
Chronic diseases have become the leading cause of death and disability.
Doctors become concerned if the troubles are chronic or often interfere with daytime functioning.
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Right now, the dollar problem is chronic and debilitating, but it could become acute and economically life threatening at any moment.
As the incidence of childhood infections has fallen, a number of chronic ailments, such as diabetes and asthma, have become more frequent.
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