The influence of the emotional state on the health of people was known back in the ancient centuries, but official medicine began to be recognized not so long ago. And meanwhile, many diseases are a pure psychosomatic and trying to treat them with medicines, we take off the symptoms, eliminate the consequences, but do not get rid of the cause. How to recognize a psychosomatic disease and how to treat it?
Psychosomatics of diseases - concept
Psychomatics is a direction in medicine and psychology, studying the influence of character, behavior, emotional states on a person's physical health. Also psychosomatics in everyday life are called diseases caused by various psychological factors.
The list of such diseases is quite extensive, in principle, almost any ailment can be explained by psychosomatic disorder. Allocate the following groups of diseases, which can be caused by similar reasons:
- diseases of the respiratory system (hyperventilation syndrome, bronchial asthma);
- diseases of the cardiovascular system (ischemic disease, cardiac rhythm disturbances, myocardial infarction);
- gastrointestinal diseases (gastric and duodenal ulcer, diarrhea, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome);
- eating disorders (anorexia, obesity, bulimia);
- diseases of the endocrine system (diabetes, hypothyroidism);
- gynecological diseases (amenorrhea, functional sterility, dysmenorrhea);
- skin diseases (urticaria, atopic neurodermatitis, skin itching);
- psycho-vegetative syndromes;
- diseases of the musculoskeletal system;
- oncological diseases;
- functional sexual disorders;
- infectious diseases;
- depression;
Symptoms of psychosomatics
How to distinguish psychosomatics from diseases in which psychological causes do not play a leading role, maybe they have special symptoms? Unfortunately, this is not so, psychosomatic disorders manifest themselves in the same way as somatic diseases. Therefore, the signs of such disorders can only be indirect.
- The first sign is the inefficiency of drugs prescribed by a doctor. That is, taking medications for a short time makes the condition easier, but after a while everything returns.
- Also a symptom of psychosomatics is considered a disease that does not have a physiological background. For example, a person can have a heart ache, increase pressure, but he does not have any physical pathologies, there are no prerequisites for such symptoms.
- The onset of the disease is triggered by psychological factors - stress, psychological trauma, neurosis, etc.
Treatment of psychosomatics
There are several approaches to the treatment of psychosomatics, but most of them presuppose the work of a psychologist. Because physical disorders are just a consequence of psychological problems. The following ways of treating psychosomatic disorders can be distinguished.
- Drug therapy - the appointment of soothing or stimulant drugs.
- Psychotherapy - autogenic training, hypnosis, psychoanalysis and psychotherapeutic conversations.
- Phytotherapy - the appointment of various herbal dues.
Methods of treating psychosomatic disorders are also found in alternative medicine. This includes recommendations to remove the wrong installation that exists in our subconscious, because psychosomatics is not a person's conscious desire to get sick, but subconscious fear, discontent or resentment at any events. For example, the cause of insomnia is the fear of life, because of which a person loses the ability to perceive all the good. And the cause of migraines are hatred of coercion, fear of change, envy and sexual fears.
Believe in psychosomatics or not - it's your thing, but the fact that people living in harmony with themselves and the world have fewer health problems is a proven fact.