Anxiety and anger can sharpen some physical senses and reduce pain. Women’s sense of smell is linked to estrogen levels, while depression can cause body aches. Some people experience olfactory hallucinations.
Research has shown that anxiety in men can lead to an increased ability to detect odors, even faint ones. Other research subjects’ sense of taste was heightened when a viscerally disgusting scenario was described to them, although the same reaction did not occur when they were presented with a scenario in which they were being scammed out of their money. There is also evidence that, like anxiety, anger can lead to the sharpening of some physical senses and reduce a person’s ability to feel pain.
Learn more about the senses:
A woman’s sense of smell can increase with elevated estrogen levels. When estrogen levels drop, so does a woman’s ability to detect odors.
Some people experience olfactory hallucinations, in which they smell things they aren’t actually exposed to.
People suffering from depression might experience an increase in body aches and pains.
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