A new survey says one third of Canadians are dealing with chronic pain and the physical symptoms are just part of it.

The survey also revealed the mental and emotional effect on sufferers such as higher levels of anxiety, depression and stress.

Executive Director for the Angus Reid Institute Shachi Kurl Explains: “A big piece of living with chronic pain is really the unpredictability and the hopelessness around understanding whether of not it’s ever going to lift.”

“Whether they are one day going to go back into a time in their lives where they’re feeling pretty well most of the time.”

Kurl continued that it’s heartbreaking that many people with chronic pain feel that life is no longer worth living.

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