Get rid of psychosomatic disorder with the help of magic. Psychiatrist about the treatment of psychosomatic diseases. Psychosomatic problems in the oral cavity

Popular wisdom says “All diseases are from nerves!”. Traditional modern medicine is not so categorical.

Although the list of diseases is already officially recognized as psychosomatic, is constantly updated and supplemented with more and more new names, doctors still treat the body, forgetting about the soul.

How to treat psychosomatics in such a way as to be cured, and not continue to go to the doctors and take pills?

On the relationship between body and mind

When the doctor does not find the physical, functional or organic causes of a particular disease in his patient, he defines it as psychosomatic.

In fact, and by and large, All diseases (from the common cold to increased trauma) are psychosomatic!

The doctor is able to diagnose and identify the disease in the human body, but the “treatment” itself, as a rule, comes down to:

• relieve the symptoms of the disease,
• offset its consequences.

That is causes diseases are not found and are not eliminated! That is why diseases tend to become chronic, and the number and dose of drugs taken - more and more.

Is it possible to fix the problem without knowing its causes? Is it possible to cure a disease without getting to its source?

It is forbidden!

But you can find out the cause of any disease. She is already known! And not to anyone else, but to the patient himself.

No doctor, healer, psychologist or psychotherapist will help a person if he does not want to help himself!

The source of psychosomatic illnesses, to put it simply, is head at the patient!

Causes psychosomatic diseases are personal and personal problems of a psychological plan:

• aggressiveness,
• anger,
• fears and phobias
• guilt,
• shame,
• anxiety,
• diffidence,
• pessimism,
• perfectionism,
• pride,
• envy,
• arrogance,
• stress,
• “victim” complex - the list goes on for a very, very long time!

In short, everything negative:

• emotions,
• feelings,
• experiences,
• mood,
• relationship,
• words,
• actions,
• deeds,

and the general way of life provoke occurrence of diseases.

More precisely, diseases are just projection accumulated in the mental sphere of the negative, it is a way of the body to inform its owner: “Attention! Your soul suffers! ".

The organs of vision of most people are arranged in such a way that they are not able to see subtle-material and ideal things. Many people do not know how to feel themselves, do not know themselves (what to strive for, what to want), live unconsciously and often consciously harm themselves.

For these reasons, a psychological problem often becomes noticeable only when it passes into the category of physical reality - it manifests itself in the body.

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How to treat psychosomatics yourself

Psychosomatics is treated! For this you need:

1. Realize that in a human being everything is one. Negative thoughts, words, and a generally unhealthy lifestyle lead to unhealthiness. And, on the contrary, healthy habits, positive thoughts and attitudes lead to the harmonization of not only the psyche, but also the body.
2. designate a number of current and long-standing psychological problems and difficulties in relationships with others, with the world, with oneself.
3. Highlight among the problems most significant and appear frequently. try hard feel which of them can provoke the disease.
4. Increase psychological literacy. In our country and abroad, many methods and classifications of psychosomatic diseases have been developed, containing a description of the possible causes of their occurrence. It is not difficult to find such transcripts, including on our website. However, it is always important to remember - the truth is hidden inside, not outside! All answers needed search within yourself!
5. reformulate the problem that caused the illness tasks, put in front of you target. Example: disease - myopia; psychological problems - fear of the future, self-doubt, indecision; tasks - to become more self-confident, bolder, look to the future with optimism; the goal is a joyful, love-filled look at the present life, where the future is beautiful, it is pleasant and one wants to look into it.
6. Develop goal achievement plan with step by step tasks.
7. Begin act, without delay and without doubting success!

Most main rule, without observing which, it is better not to start working on yourself - you need to act from self love!

Only with love for yourself can you reach your goal and improve your health. Need to give thanks the body (themselves) for the fact that through illness it suggested what needs to be changed in life and, thereby, contributed to personal development, spiritual growth, and the transition to a healthy lifestyle.

When help is indispensable

Doctors Not treat psychosomatic diseases, but only help to hide them. A person provokes the onset of the disease himself, respectively, can on one's own get rid of her!

But very often, when solving psychosomatic problems, without help still not enough, especially if the disease is long-standing and serious.

Psychologists and psychotherapists - specialists, helping a person suffering from a psychosomatic illness, to understand himself and get rid of the disease.

Particularly effective in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases such directions contemporary psychotherapy:

• body oriented,
• cognitive-behavioral,
• gestalt therapy,
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP),
• hypno-suggestive.

In addition to psychotherapy, manual therapy, herbal medicine, yoga and others are effective. non-traditional methods of treatment based on the principles of natural healing of the body.

There are many directions and trends, many effective techniques have been developed to get rid of psychosomatic disorders.

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"All diseases are from nerves!" So says folk wisdom, but modern medicine is not so categorical.

Despite the fact that the list of diseases that are officially recognized as psychosomatic is constantly updated with new names, doctors still continue to treat the body, completely forgetting about the state of mind. How to treat psychosomatics in order to recover?

The article will discuss such an important problem of our time as symptoms, causes and treatment.

Many doctors underestimate the impact of a person's psychological health on their physical health. Although even the ancient healers spoke of the unity of the body and soul. The disease is first formed in the subtle sphere (spiritual), and then manifests itself in the body.

The term "psychosomatics" is translated from Greek as "body and soul". This is a branch of medicine and psychology that studies the psychological and emotional causes that can cause a person to develop physiological diseases. In other words, psychological stress, depression, disorders can manifest themselves in the body as a disease.

People of any age and class are affected, both the elderly and children suffer from them; teenagers are especially predisposed.

This is due to many factors: misunderstanding of parents, unfair punishment, screaming, and so on. The treatment of such diseases is a long and difficult process, which includes both the drug method and regular visits to a psychotherapist.

Psychosomatic symptoms include groundless complaints about health, a person is tormented by physical ailments, but examinations do not show any pathologies.

Another striking example of psychosomatics is the absence of the cause of the disease. There are symptoms, a diagnosis has been made, and it is not clear why the pathological process began. In this case, drugs will help only temporarily, they will relieve the symptoms, and eventually the disease will return.

The people consider psychosomatic diseases that have arisen on a nervous basis, that is, as a result of stress, breakdowns, experiences.

General characteristics of all psychosomatic diseases

The onset of malaise is provoked by conflict, depression, death, neurosis, complex, nervous shock. Moreover, these factors can cause both the onset of the disease and its prosperity. Many are related to a person's sexual characteristics.

For example, boys suffer from bronchial asthma in childhood, and women in adulthood. This does not mean at all that girls do not get sick in childhood, but they suffer from psychosomatic asthma several times less often.

Hypertension affects men more, women suffer from coronary disease.

Everything goes in phases. They have periods of exacerbation, as a rule, these are autumn and spring, and do not arise from anywhere. That is, if there is no genetic predisposition to asthma, then it will not arise even against the background of severe stress and shock.

As a rule, they develop taking into account the temperament and character of a person. Hot-tempered, aggressive people are prone to hypertension and cardiovascular disease, while modest and shy people suffer from pathologies of the intestines and stomach.

History of the study of the disease

These are the most difficult types of ailments. The connection between psychology and human physiological diseases has been studied since ancient times. Hippocrates repeatedly spoke about this relationship. But the term began to be used in the medical environment only in 1818.

Body and soul are interconnected

When the doctor does not find the physical causes of the disease, he diagnoses it as psychosomatic. But in fact, almost all pathologies are such. The question of how to treat psychosomatics remains open, and the whole process comes down to relieving symptoms and preventing consequences.

The causes of the disease remain unidentified and are not eliminated, in connection with which the diseases become chronic, and the number of medications taken increases.

How to treat psychosomatics and eliminate the problem without knowing its causes and sources? Can it be done? The answer, of course, is unequivocal - no!

But you can find out the cause of any disease. It is known to the patient himself. No doctor can help a person if he does not want to help himself! Simply put, the source of psychosomatic illness is in our head.

The causes of such diseases are personal and personal problems of a psychological kind:

• anger;
• guilt;
• diffidence;
• arrogance;
• aggressiveness;
• anxiety;
• phobias;
• shame;
• pessimism;
• envy;
• pride;
• complex "victim" -

that is, all negative feelings, moods, words, attitudes, emotions, experiences, actions, deeds. In other words, the lifestyle that a person leads provokes the occurrence of diseases.

Scientists have developed the Wheel of Emotions circle, which displays the relationship between the emotional background and physiological diseases. According to him, anger causes diseases of the gallbladder and liver, and if nothing is done, a person becomes restless.

Restlessness entails, in turn, diseases of the stomach, pancreas, and spleen. These diseases cause fear.

It provokes the development of problems in the kidneys and bladder, and this leads to a loss of joy in life.

The loss of cheerfulness causes problems with the small intestine and heart, and, as a result, sadness and sadness.

These negative emotions lead to a disruption in the work of the large intestine and lungs, which gives rise to anger - the circle is closed.

Emotional Causes of Disease

Emotional causes of illness include:

• All diseases of the nose. According to scientists, they arise because of resentment, the need for attention and help, a feeling of insignificance.
• Liver diseases can develop due to anger, old resentment, self-flagellation.
• Arthritis is provoked by the lack of love of others, increased self-criticism, resentment, fear of the future.
• All skin diseases are directly related to anger towards oneself, fear of physical intimacy.
• Headaches bother a person if he has increased self-criticism, he feels his inferiority in school or work.
• Kidney diseases, as a rule, develop due to boredom, anger at oneself, annoyance.
• Oncology is directly related to a person's tendency to reproach himself for his actions, with the habit of falling into despair, with a feeling of loneliness.

If a person experiences stress for a long time, functional disorders begin in his body:

• unstable blood pressure;
• back and neck pain;
• headache;
• dyspnea;
• irritable bowel syndrome, stomach ulcers, problems with the cardiovascular system;
• fluctuations in blood glucose levels during stress.

Doctors in the last century identified a number of psychosomatic diseases, these include:

• diabetes;
• neurodermatitis;
• bronchial asthma;
• nonspecific ulcerative colitis;
• arterial hypertension;
• rheumatoid arthritis;
• peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.

Currently, the following diseases are also classified as psychosomatics:

• pancreatitis;
• infertility;
• inflammation of the gums;
• complicated pregnancy;
• headache;
• alcoholism;
• sexual dysfunctions;
• caries;
• violation of the menstrual cycle;
• addiction.

Louise Hay developed a table of psychosomatic diseases and methods for their treatment. Fragment of this table:

Diseases From A to Z"	Probable Cause	New Approach
"A"
Adenoids	Not everything goes well in the family, there are disputes and friction. The child gets the feeling that he is not needed.	The child should feel wanted and needed.
Alcoholism	Rejection of oneself, one's own personality, a feeling of worthlessness and inadequacy.	Understand your value, love yourself, live in today.
Allergy	Protest against something, impossibility to express it (protest). Denial of one's own power.	There is no disagreement with life! There is no danger. The world is beautiful and not dangerous.
Amenorrhea (absence of menstruation for 6 months or more)	Dislike and even dislike for oneself. Feeling of a complex of an inferior woman.	I am who I am. I am part of the universe! I love myself because I am the perfect expression of life. Everything is fine with me!
	Inability to express oneself. Inability to cope with any problem, situation.	To all restrictions: "No"! To be youreself! Find freedom!
Appendicitis	Blocking everything good. Fear of life.	Make way for the flow of life! I'm out of danger.
	Inability to enjoy life.	Joy flows through the veins with every heartbeat. A feeling of joy fills me.
	Holding back sobs, depressed, unable to breathe for one's own good.	Take life into your own hands and breathe deeply.
Asthma in infants and older children	Fear of life. Fear is in this environment.	The child should feel love and complete security.
"B"
Infertility	There is no need to acquire parenting experience. Resistance to the life process.	I do everything right: the right thing at the right time, and I am always where I need to be. I approve and love myself.
	Huge sense of guilt. Guilt seeks punishment.	In my heart I calmly, with joy, part with the past. I am free! And they are free!
	Arguments, screams, nervous situation in the family.	Everything is fine, harmony reigns around me.
"IN"
Inflammation	Fear. Rage. Inflamed consciousness.	I am focused and calm.
"G"
	Feelings of doom and uncertainty.	I'm safe. I do everything right. I approve and love myself.
Genitals	Symbol of male or female principles.	Absolutely not scary and completely safe to be yourself.
	The ability to see the past, present, and future clearly.	I look at the world with joy and love.
	The tonsils are a symbol of restraint. Fear that something can start without your participation and desire.	In my own world, I am the force and the creator.
	Stubbornness, rejection and isolation.	I rejoice in everything I hear. I am an integral part of the universe.
Headache	Fear, self-criticism and underestimation of oneself.	I approve of myself and my actions. I love myself and I'm completely safe.
	The throat is a channel for expressiveness and creativity. Feelings that I have no right. Feelings of inferiority.	My heart is open. I sing about the joy of love.
Throat: diseases	No desire to change. Inability to take care of oneself. Crisis of creativity.	I can take care of myself. I have creativity and I show it. I want to change.
"D"
Childhood diseases	Belief in contrived rules and social concepts. Adults behave like a child.	The child is surrounded by love, he is under Divine protection. His mind is inviolable.
	A symbol of the ability to breathe life.	Living is safe. I love life.
"AND"
	The stomach is not only a container of food, but also the "assimilation" of thoughts.	Life is Beautiful! I easily "learn" it.
gastric diseases	Terrible fear of everything new and inability to accept the new.	Everything is going great, life favors me, and I gladly accept everything new.
Women's diseases	Rejection of femininity and rejection of oneself.	I am a woman! I am proud of this! I love my body!
"Z"
	Old thoughts don't want to leave my brain. The inability to part with the past.	I let the flow of life flow through me. Everything new, vital and fresh enters me. The past has no place in my life.
	Symbolize solutions.	I decide everything myself.
"AND"
Infection	Annoyance, anger and irritation	I am harmonious and peaceful.
"TO"
	The desire to shout to the whole world: “Pay attention to me, look at me! Listen to me!"	I am loved, appreciated and respected.
Intestines	A symbol of getting rid of the unnecessary.	Getting rid of the past is easy, and I gladly do it. I am happy to learn and absorb everything new
Intestine: problems	Fear and unwillingness to part with obsolete and unnecessary.	I discard everything old easily and freely. I welcome and accept the new.
Skin: diseases	An old sediment in the soul, anxiety and fear. Feeling threatened.	The past is over. There are joyful and peaceful thoughts in my head. I am free!
Lump in the throat	Fear and distrust of the process of life.	Life is made for me. I am happy and free. I'm completely safe.
	Expression of joy circulating freely in the body	I express the joy of life and receive peace and joy.
Blood: diseases	There is no joy, no movement of thoughts.	New joyful thoughts circulate freely within me.
Blood: high blood pressure	Old unresolved emotional issues.	I am here and now. There is peace and tranquility in my soul. The past is in the past.
Blood: low blood pressure	The mood is defeatist: “Nothing will come of it. Nothing will work" Lost love in childhood.	Life is wonderful, everything is wonderful!
"L"
	Symbol of the ability to breathe life	I freely and evenly breathe life. Life is Beautiful!
Pulmonary diseases	Fear of accepting life. Sadness and depression. Beliefs about the unworthiness of living life to the fullest.	I perceive the fullness of life with joy and love to the end.
"M"
Menstruation	Rejection of one's femininity, fear and self-doubt. A firm belief that everything connected with the genitals is unclean and sinful.	All. What happens in my body is normal and natural. I am a complete woman. I love myself and approve.
	Sexual fear, hatred of coercion. Resistance to the process of life.	I am free. I trust and follow the course of life. Life itself will provide me with everything I need.
"N"
Adrenal glands: diseases	Sense of anxiety. Disdainful attitude and defeatist attitude towards oneself.	Taking care of yourself is wonderful and completely safe. I love myself and approve of my actions.
	Internal crying. Pray for help.	Everything is fine! I love and console myself, and I like it.
	Symbol of self recognition	I have intuitive abilities. I acknowledge it.
stuffy nose	Self-worth is not recognized or valued.	I appreciate myself. I adore and love myself.
Nasopharyngeal discharge	Feeling like a victim. Children's insults and tears. Internal crying.	In my world, I am the creative force. I acknowledge and accept this. I enjoy my own life.
"ABOUT"
Obesity	Fear, need for protection, hypersensitivity. Hidden anger and unwillingness to forgive.	I am safe, sacred love protects me. I take full responsibility for my life. I forgive everyone. Joy fills my heart.
"P"
	Primitive emotions. Anger.	Peace, joy and love in my life.
Pneumonia (inflammation of the lungs)	Unhealed emotional wounds. Tired of life. Despair.	Divine ideas are filled with the breath and intelligence of life. I breathe freely. This is a new beginning for my life.
Pancreas	Sweet life symbol.	My life is sweet.
Spine	Support of life.	Life supports me. Everything is fine.
Kidneys: diseases	Failure, shame, disappointment. You react to everything like a small child.	Growing up is absolutely safe. My life is going according to Divine Providence. And this leads to a wonderful result.
Colds (upper respiratory disease)	Disorder and confusion. Simultaneous blockage of events. Small grievances of persuasion, for example, such as: "Every winter I endure a cold twice or thrice."	I relax peacefully. There is clarity and harmony in my soul. All just great!
"R"
	Old grievances, deep wound. Grief or a great mystery devours, does not give rest.	The past is in the past. I forgive everyone, I consign the past to oblivion. From now on, in my world only joy, peace and happiness. I love and approve of myself.
"WITH"
	Symbol of the center of love and security.	The rhythm of love is in my heart.
Heart: attack (myocardial infarction)	Money is the main thing in life. For their sake, the expulsion from the heart of all joy.	Happiness and joy in the very center of my heart. I love World! The world loves me.
Heart: diseases	Old emotional problems. There is no joy in life.	Joy lives in my heart, and I am happy to let the flow of happiness and joy through my mind, body, life.
Sinusitis (inflammation of the lining of the paranasal sinuses)	One of the relatives is annoying.	Harmony and peace fill me and all the space around.
"T"
Tuberculosis	Waste due to Selfishness is wasted because of it. Great sense of ownership. Revenge. Cruel thoughts.	I create a calm and joyful world. And I will live in it. I approve and love myself.
"U"
Fatigue	Boring. An unloved job or doing an unloved thing. Resistance.	I am overwhelmed with enthusiasm, enthusiasm and energy.
	The ability to hear.	I love and hear well.
"F"
Furuncle	Seething feelings. Confusion. Anger.	Everything is calm in my heart. I rejoice and express love.
"X"
Cholesterol (high content)	Joy does not come because of clogged channels. Fear of accepting joy.	Accepting the joys of life is absolutely safe. I love life and open wide the channels for receiving happiness and joy.
chronic diseases	No desire for change. Fear of the future. Feeling of danger.	My future is safe. I am changing and growing. Life is Beautiful.
"C"
Cystitis (bladder disease)	Anxiety. Fear of letting yourself go. There is no desire to part with old ideas.	I am completely safe and joyfully with great desire to part with the past. Long live everything new: bright and joyful.
"SH"
Neck (cervical spine)	Flexibility symbol. Thanks to the neck, a person can see everything that happens behind his back.	Life is Beautiful and amazing! I live in harmony with life.
"SCH"
Thyroid	"An endocrine gland in vertebrates that stores iodine and produces iodine-containing hormones". home gland of the immune system. Feeling like life is attacking. Fear that someone is eager to get to you.	I have only good thoughts that strengthen the immune system. I listen to myself lovingly. I am well protected inside and out.
"I"
	Fear. Something gnaws from within. A firm belief in their inferiority.	Everything is great and wonderful! My soul is calm. I do everything right. I love and adore myself.
	Symbol of Creation	I am calm and balanced. And my creative flow is fine.

How to treat psychosomatics yourself

Psychosomatic diseases are treated, for this you need:

• Realize that mental health and physical health are interrelated. Negative thoughts, words, unhealthy lifestyle lead to disorders in the body. And vice versa, healthy habits, correct attitudes lead to healing not only of the body, but also of the psyche.
• To note for themselves a number of actual and ancient psychological problems.
• Identify the most significant problems among them, try to feel which of them could provoke the development of the disease.
• Find in the table of psychosomatic diseases the cause that most likely provoked the development of the disease.
• Develop a plan to deal with the emotional and psychological causes that allegedly caused the development of the disease.

How to treat psychosomatics on your own? The most important rule to follow is to work not on yourself, but out of self-love.

Only by loving yourself, you can reach the goal and recover. You need to thank your body for the fact that, in the form of an illness, it suggested what and how to change in life, and thus contributed to spiritual growth.

How to treat psychosomatic illnesses

Psychosomatic illnesses can be dealt with and cured only on your own. The following are common pathologies and methods of their treatment. How to treat psychosomatics?

• lung disease

The main reasons: a person does not allow himself to breathe freely, he is subconsciously sure that he has no right to live, does not live a full life - often because he is afraid. Another reason for the psychosomatics of the lungs is that a person perceives everything monotonously, hopelessly, monotonously. He develops discontent, which develops into aggression.

Almost all lung diseases are accompanied by attacks of suffocation and a pressing cough. What causes the psychosomatics of lung diseases? How to treat them?

If a person has unspoken claims, he develops bronchitis and cough.

Attacks of suffocation provokes strong fear and distrust.

Pneumonia is associated with severe shock, despair, fatigue, exhaustion of vitality.

Pleurisy occurs in a person who lives with anger, only he keeps this negativity deep in himself.

Tuberculosis occurs as a result of prolonged depression and a strong unwillingness to live.

Breathing is a vital function of the body, to breathe means to live. How to treat the psychosomatics of lung diseases? When the problem is related to breathing, then you should be more involved in the process of self-expression. It is necessary to strive to live fully, to create something beautiful, to find an occupation in which you can fulfill yourself, not to be led by public opinion or logic.

• Psychosomatics of stomach problems

How to treat stomach problems? The latter are closely related to negative emotions. When the nervous system is overstressed, it primarily affects the stomach. Spasms begin in his blood vessels, which is reflected in the mucosa. As a result, gastritis, ulcers and other diseases develop.

The most important emotional cause of diseases of the digestive system is the fear of being unprotected and vulnerable, lack of trust in others, fear of something new or failure.

A person begins to get annoyed, anger, anger, negativity appear.

Louise Hay believes that the state of the stomach reflects such experiences as horror, inability to learn something new, fear of change, uncertainty, doom. Consequently, depressive, irritable, anxious, over-conservative people are prone to stomach diseases.

How to treat First of all, you need to learn to accept the world with love and patience, you need to be able to process information and change impressions about yourself, the world, people.

• Psychosomatics of gynecology

How to treat female pathologies according to the table of diseases, developed by Louise Hay, indicates that violations of the genital organs are associated with self-identification and feeling like a woman. The decisive reason is also the relationship with men (son, father, brother, husband). That is, negative thoughts and feelings in relation to the representatives of the strong half of humanity trigger negative processes in the genitals.

Resentment, irritation, hatred, fear, anger towards the mother can provoke the development of female diseases.

Treatment of women's diseases begins with the fact that you need to learn to perceive yourself as a woman. You need to develop as a woman, raise the level of your feminine consciousness, develop feminine qualities in yourself: kindness, balance, warmth, gentleness, motherly feelings.

If the cause of the disease lies in childhood trauma, it is necessary to forgive the person and get rid of this burden. So recommends psychosomatics.

• Lump in throat - how to treat

The reasons for this state are associated with the containment of anger, insecurity, inability to protect oneself, unwillingness to change. Often people who have a sensation as if there is a lump in their throat take the role of a victim. They imprison themselves in a psychological cage that they do not want to leave. A lump in the throat is a fear of the surrounding reality, excessive self-pity, envy of others.

What does psychosomatics say? How to treat a lump in the throat? It is important to learn how to calmly respond to problems, you should share your experiences and feelings with loved ones, but at the same time not feel sorry for yourself. You need to be able to find the cause of what happened not in the outside world, but in yourself. You should increase your self-esteem through auto-training, meditation.

• Psychosomatics of headaches

How to treat pain in the head, signaling to a person that he has low self-esteem, he strongly reproaches himself, hides his individuality? A person is immersed in negative thoughts and feelings towards himself. Nervousness, secrecy, depression, pessimistic thoughts complicate the situation.

How to treat psychosomatics in adults associated with headaches? We need to get rid of negative thoughts and feelings. Nowadays, there are a lot of methods and techniques designed to help with this. For example, one of them is described in Joe Vitale's book Life Without Limits.

• Psychosomatics of heart problems

How to treat the heart - a symbol of love? By the way, blood is the joy of life. If a person rejects love and joy, he has cardiovascular problems and such qualities as heartlessness, callousness, cruelty, and rigidity begin to prevail.

Louise Hay believes that the heart symbolizes security and love, in her opinion, heart problems cause emotional negativity, lack of joy, callousness.

How to treat psychosomatics in adults associated with heart disease? You need to open up, love yourself, friends, loved ones, life, nature, the world.

Get rid of the causes of psychosomatic diseases on your own

The main cause of these ailments is stress. It can manifest itself differently for each person, respectively, and the reaction for each will be different. You can treat stress with the help of the right psychological attitudes. You should learn to talk about your problems with a close friend, tell him everything that is in your heart, what has happened lately, what thoughts arise in your head, and so on.

You should learn to love yourself and others, see more positive, learn to enjoy life.

Work on your self-esteem, find something you like and devote your free time to it.

There are times when you can’t cope with stress on your own, then you should contact a psychotherapist.

When to Seek Help

How to treat psychosomatic diseases? Which specialists should be contacted?

A person himself provokes the development of the disease, therefore, he can recover from it on his own. But often he needs help to cope with old problems.

Psychotherapists and psychologists help to solve psychosomatic problems, to understand oneself.

Manual therapy, yoga, herbal medicine and other methods of non-traditional therapy are also effective.

There are many methods that are aimed at getting rid of psychosomatic disorders.

Psychosomatics in children. How to treat?

Children are just as susceptible to psychosomatic influences as adults. Many parents believe that children's problems are not serious, which means that they do not worry about them. But in fact, children take their failures very seriously and experience a lot because of them. At the same time, it is more difficult for them to express what is on their minds. As a result, real stress develops, which eventually manifests itself in physiological diseases - that is, psychosomatic diseases develop. Often in children it is very difficult to suspect the psychological cause of the disease. But if the disease returns again and again for no apparent reason, it is worth assuming that this is psychosomatic.

In a newborn baby in the first months of life, the emotional state depends on the mother. The invisible close connection between mother and child has long been proven. He feels the mood, feelings of the mother, so stress, anxiety, discontent, frustration can affect not only the woman, but also the baby.

An older child has plenty of psychological problems: lack of attention from parents, adaptation to kindergarten, stress at home, excessive severity of adults, and so on.

Most often, colds, bronchitis, tonsillitis, dermatitis, tonsillitis, intestinal disorders, and oncology are associated with psychosomatics.

• If a child constantly has a cold, he is tormented by a cough - perhaps he is suffering from excessive guardianship on the part of adults, or harsh criticism of his actions, or excessive demands on him.
• Frequent sore throats indicate that the child wants to say something, but he does not dare to do it. Perhaps he is tormented by feelings of shame or guilt.
• Intestinal disorders indicate a feeling of fear.
• Allergies and skin problems speak of a lack of attention and love.

How to treat psychosomatics in a child? The biggest problem lies in the diagnosis of the disease. Psychologist and parents should become one team. You should create a friendly atmosphere in the house, follow all the recommendations of a specialist. If the problem is with the adaptation period in the kindergarten, you need to drive it not for the whole day, but for several hours. Ask the teacher to call immediately as soon as the child starts to cry or act up - so the baby will understand that he was not left alone, that mom and dad can always come to his aid.

You need to build a trusting relationship with your child. He should not be afraid to talk about his problems, fears, grievances. He must feel that his parents are on his side. If he is wrong, talk about it in a friendly and benevolent manner, without criticizing, insulting or judging him.

Prevention of psychosomatic diseases

For psychosomatics, prevention is of great importance. Such problems are easier to prevent than to treat them later. In addition, if you do not deal with psychological problems, they will remain with a person for life. Complexes, fears, disorders affect us at any age.

Of great importance is the lack of encouragement during illness. Many people allow themselves more during an illness than during a normal state. Therefore, the installation subconsciously works, it is pleasant to get sick and the body immediately reacts to it.

As for children, the burden on children and the requirements for it should be commensurate. You should not demand excellent grades from him, as every four can become stressful for him. The main thing is to decide for yourself: “Are you raising an excellent student, or a healthy child?!”. It is not necessary to organize his time in such a way that every minute is busy for him. The development of the child should not be at the expense of his personal activities and games.

It is necessary to pay attention to children, let it be half an hour or an hour a day, but they must be devoted to the interests of the child.

Excessive guardianship and strict prohibitions are detrimental to the psyche of the baby. He should have his own personal space, the owner of which is only himself.

A calm, friendly atmosphere in the family is the best prevention of psychosomatic illnesses in both adults and children. You should love yourself and your children and be kind to each other, and then diseases will not have a single chance to develop.

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I have never had problems with my stomach, I myself react very emotionally to everything and take every little thing to heart. I can burst into tears from the movie so that I can’t stop. Over the past few years, a lot of stressful things have happened in life in all areas. There is no rest at all from thoughts and nightmares, even in my sleep I am in constant tension. For the first time in the summer, on the same day I was fired, my stomach ached and my temperature rose (I decided that I was just poisoned), after a couple of days everything went away. The second time was not so long ago (I had a fight with a close friend, she spoke out very painfully) and again a stomach spasm, although this time there was no temperature and even nausea, she ate normally, everything was fine, except for heaviness in the stomach and now the pain. And just yesterday, I broke up with my boyfriend, in the evening of the same day, a terrible pain in the stomach began to spasm, after 10 minutes it let go and this has not appeared since yesterday. I also have a wandering back pain, then the upper back, then the lower back aches (namely, aching pain). As far as I understand, this is all from the nerves, a lot of things have accumulated and the body cannot stand stress. What do i do? How to treat psychosomatic pain and how to stop reacting to stressful situations? How to keep yourself in hand in any annoying situation?

Sometimes what cannot be expressed mentally (feelings, thoughts) and as a result of speech is expressed by the body. The body on the safety net turns out to be in the psyche.

The only reliable way is to get to know your inner content and learn how to express it in words and or actions.

How to get rid of stress and psychosomatic illnesses?

The inextricable link between the state of the body and the soul was seen even by the doctors of antiquity. Soul and body are a single whole, a part of which will be sure to be sick if the whole feels bad. Resentments and fears, our experiences, the state of our psyche, lead to diseases associated not so much with the physiological failures of our body, but with the state of our Soul are called psychosomatic diseases. Having recognized the presence of psychosomatic diseases, medicine has not yet cured them.

learned. Oriental medicine considers a person as an energy whole, she believes that a disease occurs when there is a violation of the flow of energy into our body, which is caused by negative emotions. Tibetan doctors restore the energy balance in the body, thereby curing the disease. Western medicine only at the beginning of the 20th century established the dependence of a person’s illness on his state of mind. Only by revealing the cause of a psychosomatic illness can it be cured. Because of their spiritual experiences, a stressful state sets in, which leads to certain diseases of the human body. often carried out by combining the use of antidepressants and psychotherapy. But almost every day we notice that, without thinking about the underlying causes of the disease, doctors start treating only the diseased organ, which does not eliminate the cause of the disease and the disease progresses. In addition to treatment with psychotherapy and antidepressants, there is another natural way to get rid of psychosomatic illnesses and stress - to learn how to breathe correctly (diaphragmatic breathing). During diaphragmatic breathing, the diaphragm moves down and stretches the lungs, forcing air into them, as a result of which the lungs are completely filled with air. By learning diaphragmatic breathing, you can independently balance the balance of energy in the body. Neuro-linguistic programming and hypnosis are also used to treat psychosomatic diseases.

Psychosomatic diseases causes and treatment

Today we will talk about such an important problem as psychosomatic diseases, causes and treatment, as well as the identification of psychosomatics, its diagnosis.

Many doctors underestimate the impact of a patient's psychological state on his physical health. But even the ancient healers spoke about the unity of the soul and body.

A person consists of several shells and the physical shell - the body - is closely connected with the spiritual, mental, emotional and other shells. The disease is formed first in more subtle areas, and only then manifests itself in the body.

Psychosomatics just considers the connection between the psyche and the body, this is a disease of the body as a result of mental distress, lack of harmony between the psyche and the body.

Reasons for the development of psychosomatic diseases

The very word "psychosomatics" means the interaction between the psyche and the body. Most psychosomatic human diseases arise as a result of some psychological causes, mainly under the influence of stress.

We all experience stress all the time throughout our lives. Any impact on a person, any life situation or event, even joyful, is stress.

Everyone's response to stress is completely different. But there is always a readiness for some kind of action: either to run away from this situation, or to destroy the source of danger (this is genetically inherent).

In a stressful situation, the brain announces the combat situation of readiness No. 1. All muscles tense. Hormones are released into the blood to help the body cope with the situation:

• the heart begins to beat faster and faster
• breathing becomes shallow and rapid
• muscles tense up
• sweat

As a result, the person is ready to take action. But he does not commit it, but sits and worries that someone offended him (as an example). It turns out to be idle work: our body is ready for action, but we do not perform it. The brain hangs up - there is no action. After a while, the feeling of fear and anxiety is triggered again, the brain again gives the readiness command No. 1 ... And so several times a day.

As a result, we get a failure of self-regulation in the body.

What are psychosomatic diseases

With prolonged influence of stress on the body, functional disorders of the body begin:

• a person's blood pressure fluctuates
• pains begin in the upper back and neck, because when we are anxious, we unconsciously raise our shoulders and try to hide our heads
• from the constant tension of the muscles of the upper body, headaches begin
• hyperventilation may occur due to a feeling of lack of air, we are constantly trying to inhale oxygen as deeply as possible
• irritable bowel syndrome may occur: rumbling in the abdomen, pain, diarrhea
• peptic ulcer of the stomach is very often triggered by a stressful condition - an increased release of hydrochloric acid for the digestion of food that is not in the stomach and, as a result, erosion. Microbes settle in these places and the process has begun ...
• there are problems with the work of the cardiovascular system, the so-called vegetative-vascular dystonia, as a result of an anxiety disorder
• fluctuations in insulin and blood glucose occur during stress - frequent breakdowns can give impetus to the development of diabetes

Clinicians of the last century identified a number of psychosomatic diseases under the name "holy seven psychosomatoses":

1. bronchial asthma
2. rheumatoid arthritis
3. diabetes
4. arterial hypertension
5. peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum
6. nonspecific ulcerative collitis
7. neurodermatitis

At the moment, the following diseases are also classified as psychomatics:

• infertility
• pancreatitis
• headache
• inflammation of the gums
• caries
• alcoholism
• addiction
• complicated pregnancy
• menstrual irregularity
• sexual dysfunctions

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Symptoms of psychosomatic diseases

The main symptoms of psychosomatic diseases:

1. conventional treatment does not help
2. analyzes and examinations of the patient do not show the presence of the disease, although the disease is in fact (this is not a simulation!)
3. a person becomes confident in the uniqueness, features of his disease

When we go to the doctor, we get a traditional treatment that temporarily relieves the symptoms, but after the end of the course of treatment, everything returns. The disease becomes an incurable traditional method of treatment.

How to treat psychosomatic illnesses

About half of the diseases are psychosomatic in nature (15-50%) and they require a specific approach to treatment.

In the case of psychosomatic diseases, it is not the body that needs to be treated, but the cause that caused the disease of the body. And the reason is in the head - and until a person gets rid of, for example, increased anxiety, learns to cope with its manifestation, these problems will continue until then.

Therefore, along with traditional treatment by a specialized doctor, it is necessary to contact a psychotherapist, neurologist, psychiatrist, who will help to cope with the psychological cause of the disease.

Not a single psychosomatic disease can be cured without correcting the psychological state of the patient.

If a person is in a stressful situation for a long time, at first he develops an anxiety state: anxiety, anxiety. Over time, this state can turn into a depressive state, because defense mechanisms are depleted and immunity decreases at this moment. All defense systems of the body collapse. A person becomes susceptible to, among other things, colds. Colds cannot be called psychosomatic, but due to a decrease in immunity under the influence of stress, the patient becomes more susceptible to viral infections.

What types of psychotherapy are used in the treatment of psychosomatics:

• hypnosis
• cognitive therapy (helping the psyche to cope with stress)
• correction of some personal attitudes
• some types of behavioral therapy
• gelstate therapy
• existential therapy
• figurative techniques
• linear time therapy
• holotropic breathing

I recommend watching a video where Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor Elena Filatova, who works at the Institute of Psychosomatics, explains the features of treatment and the causes of psychosomatic diseases.

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Popular wisdom says “All diseases are from nerves!”. Traditional modern medicine is not so categorical.

Although the list of diseases that are already officially recognized as psychosomatic is constantly updated and supplemented with more and more new names, doctors still treat the body, forgetting about the soul.

How to treat psychosomatics in such a way as to be cured, and not continue to go to the doctors and take pills?

On the relationship between body and mind

When a doctor does not find physical, functional or organic causes of a disease in his patient, he defines it as psychosomatic.

In fact, and by and large, all diseases (from the common cold to increased trauma) are psychosomatic!

The doctor is able to diagnose and identify the disease in the human body, but the “treatment” itself, as a rule, comes down to:

• relieve the symptoms of the disease,
• offset its consequences.

That is, the causes of the disease remain unfound and are not eliminated! That is why diseases tend to become chronic, and the number and dose of drugs taken - more and more.

Is it possible to fix the problem without knowing its causes? Is it possible to cure a disease without getting to its source?

But you can find out the cause of any disease. She's already famous! And not to anyone else, but to the patient himself.

No doctor, healer, psychologist or psychotherapist will help a person if he does not want to help himself!

The source of psychosomatic illnesses, to put it simply, is in the patient's head!

The causes of psychosomatic diseases are personal and personal psychological problems:

• aggressiveness,
• anger,
• fears and phobias
• guilt,
• shame,
• anxiety,
• diffidence,
• pessimism,
• perfectionism,
• pride,
• envy,
• arrogance,
• stress,
• “victim” complex – the list goes on for a very, very long time!

In short - all negative:

and in general, a person’s lifestyle provokes the occurrence of diseases.

More precisely, diseases are just a projection of the negative accumulated in the mental sphere, it is a way of the body to inform its owner: “Attention! Your soul suffers! ".

The organs of vision of most people are arranged in such a way that they are not able to see subtle-material and ideal things. Many people do not know how to feel themselves, do not know themselves (what to strive for, what to want), live unconsciously and often consciously harm themselves.

For these reasons, a psychological problem often becomes noticeable only when it passes into the category of physical reality - it manifests itself in the body.

How to treat psychosomatics yourself

Psychosomatics is treated! For this you need:

1. Realize that in a human being everything is one. Negative thoughts, words, and a generally unhealthy lifestyle lead to unhealthiness. And, on the contrary, healthy habits, positive thoughts and attitudes lead to the harmonization of not only the psyche, but also the body.
2. Identify a number of current and long-standing psychological problems and difficulties in relationships with others, the world, and oneself.
3. Select among the problems the most significant and frequently manifested. Try to feel which of them can provoke the disease.
4. Improve mental literacy. In our country and abroad, many methods and classifications of psychosomatic diseases have been developed, containing a description of the possible causes of their occurrence. It is not difficult to find such transcripts, including on our website. However, it is always important to remember - the truth is hidden inside, not outside! All answers must be sought within yourself!
5. Reformulate the problem that provoked the disease into tasks, set a goal. Example: disease - myopia; psychological problems - fear of the future, self-doubt, indecision; tasks - to become more self-confident, bolder, look to the future with optimism; the goal is a joyful, love-filled look at the present life, where the future is beautiful, it is pleasant and one wants to look into it.
6. Develop a plan to achieve the goal with a phased development of tasks.
7. Start acting without delay and without doubting success!

The most important rule, without observing which, it is better not to start working on yourself - you need to act out of love for yourself!

Only with love for yourself can you reach your goal and improve your health. You need to thank the body (yourself) for the fact that with a disease it suggested that you need to change in life and, thereby, contributed to personal development, spiritual growth, and the transition to a healthy lifestyle.

When help is indispensable

Doctors do not treat psychosomatic diseases, but only help to hide them. A person provokes the onset of the disease himself, respectively, he can independently heal from it!

But very often, when solving psychosomatic problems, one still cannot do without help, especially if the illnesses are long-standing and serious.

Psychologists and psychotherapists are specialists who help a person suffering from a psychosomatic illness to understand themselves and get rid of the illness.

The following areas of modern psychotherapy are especially effective in the treatment of psychosomatic diseases:

• body oriented,
• cognitive-behavioral,
• gestalt therapy,
• Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP),
• hypno-suggestive.

In addition to psychotherapy, manual therapy, herbal medicine, yoga and other non-traditional methods of treatment based on the principles of natural healing of the body are effective.

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Psychosomatics - a disease or nerves and how is it treated?

Most human diseases occur, according to scientists and psychologists, from experiences, psychological trauma, various negative thoughts and beliefs.

Has your bodily health deteriorated? It is the soul that gives a signal, informing us of its illness. It is not for nothing that there is a saying among the people, familiar to us from childhood, "all diseases are from nerves."

What is psychosomatics

Psychosomatics (the ancient Greek word ψυχή - soul and σῶμα - body) is a direction in medicine, in other words, psychosomatic medicine that studies the influence of psychological factors on the occurrence and course of somatic, that is, bodily diseases. So psychosomatics - a disease or nerves?

Scientists have come to the conclusion that some mental problems are not diseases, they only disguise themselves as bodily diseases, and they cannot be treated with conventional medicines, they require a special approach.

As Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said: "Isn't health a miracle?" Of course a miracle, and what a miracle! Yes, what a misfortune: the person seems to be healthy, has no chronic diseases, and colds are not observed, but the soul hurts, hurts.

There is a feeling that supposedly passed through a meat grinder. It happens that sleep is disturbed, and there is no appetite. And some have a constant and unreasonable feeling of anxiety, and they involuntarily wait for something, without themselves understanding what.

What is it connected with? What hurts the soul? Such symptoms occur in people with an unstable psyche and neurasthenics. But don't rush to sign yourself up for this Wednesday. Here we are talking about a functional disorder that occurs in completely healthy people. This may be due to climate change, increased solar activity, spring changes, vitamin deficiency, which mercilessly exudes the body.

Very often there are weather psychosomatic diseases, especially spring ones. In spring, the body feels a particular lack of vitamin and solar heat. And in those moments when nature wakes up after a long winter hibernation, the human body, exhausted during the winter, also wakes up. Nature awakens, hormones play, and if they are not curbed and not directed in the right direction, you can get a neurosis.

Spring neurosis can disguise itself as a variety of diseases, and very often it is very difficult to distinguish between psychosomatics or a disease.

When the psyche imitates the disease

A lot of people do not even suspect that their diseases have a mental basis. As a rule, psychosomatic diseases become twins of chronic diseases that last for years. Diseases such as:

• Hypertension and all its symptoms: headache, high blood pressure, nausea.
• Angina, constricting chest pain
• Cholecystitis, pain in the pit of the stomach and in the right hypochondrium
• Gastritis
• Colitis, flatulence, stool disorder
• Arthritis and sciatica
• Bronchitis

Paradoxically, all these problems of a neurotic nature, psychosomatic, arise from scratch and without a previous illness. It is not characteristic of a true disease. So, then the question: psychosomatics - a disease or nerves, can be answered: "nerves"?

Exacerbations of true chronic diseases are not associated with the season. Real diseases can be affected by negative factors, such as heat and low atmospheric pressure on hypertension and angina pectoris. Cold and damp for arthritis and bronchitis.

Errors in nutrition affect gastritis and cholecystitis. But psychosomatics is devoid of a clear causal relationship. And psychosomatic illnesses are not treatable by taking drugs that aim to eliminate the mimicking illness. But sedatives: valerian, corvalol, peony tincture, and light antidepressants alleviate the condition and even completely eliminate the problem.

Neither ultrasound, nor ECG, nor FGDS, nor any other examinations confirm the disease, all organs are healthy, but you are “sick”. It is the psyche that mimics the disease.

How to treat psychosomatics

How to treat psychosomatic diseases? At the first sign of an exacerbation of any disease, it is necessary to establish the cause as soon as possible. So, visit a doctor and pass the necessary tests, and conduct examinations. In no case should you self-medicate and do not take any medications on your own until a doctor prescribes. Independent and thoughtless taking of medicines will only worsen the situation.

If a diagnosis has been made - psychosomatics, it is advisable to consult a psychotherapist and take measures so that there are no repetitions of psychosomatic diseases, so that the psyche does not imitate illnesses.

Prevention of mental illness

So that the soul does not get sick, you need to avoid stress, physical overload, get enough sleep. Avoid beriberi and prepare the body for spring problems from the end of winter. How? With the help of special diets and vitamin therapy.

And most importantly, look for positive emotions in everything, more positive! The more joyful thoughts and happy moments, the less room for illness remains in the soul.

The human body has limitless abilities, and it is capable of self-healing. Man himself is truly an inner pharmacy. And the brain contains a complete set of drugs for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Just one signal from the nervous system to the human body can produce substances that relieve pain and even stop the growth of cancer cells. The key to medicines and body control is in our minds, we just need to skillfully open the lock and use our limitless abilities. So what is psychosomatics? Disease or nerves? Nerves you can't miss!

Doctors identify the relationship of specific emotions to the predisposition of diseases:

1. Fear strikes the heart
2. Anger and rage - the liver
3. Apathy and depression - stomach.

Table of psychosomatic diseases

To date, there is a well-known table compiled by Louise Hay.

How to deal with and get rid of psychomatics

In today's extremely stressful world, the role of diseases caused by constant stress or emotional distress is constantly growing. Therefore, the answer to the question of how to treat psychosomatic disorders not only does not lose relevance, but also becomes more and more ambiguous.

From stress to psychosomatics

In medical practice, there are situations when a patient falls ill, although there are absolutely no visible prerequisites for this. Then we are talking about psychosomatic diseases. The term "psychosomatics" was first introduced by the famous German physician Heinroth. Today, in medicine, this is a direction that studies the effect of a patient's state of mind on his health. In adults with psychomatic disorders, the following diseases occur: ulcers, myopia, tonsillitis, allergies, bronchitis, anemia, varicose veins, gastritis, diabetes, migraine, loss of appetite, sleep disorders. A psychosomatic illness is akin to depression driven from the head and soul into the internal organs, and it must be treated accordingly.

There is a widespread belief that mental illness is not a disease at all. This is wrong. With the right approach, depression, hypochondria and other borderline conditions caused by stress and flowing into somatic diseases are treated. A person does not fall into depression on his own. It is necessary to understand the cause of depression or severe stress and try to eliminate it. This is an almost perfect solution to this issue. Well, what if it is impossible to fix the problem or the elimination did not lead to the desired result? There are several more exits.

How to remove psychosomatics

Tranquilizers and antidepressants. These drugs are great help in the fight against psychomatic diseases. But before taking them, you need to consult a doctor: he will help you choose the best type of tranquilizers or antidepressants, or prescribe a combination of drugs.

Cons of drugs

• It is believed that antidepressants can be harmful to health. It is true that many of the antidepressants can cause symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, increased appetite, and drowsiness. The biggest disadvantage of antidepressants is that the negative effect will remain even after the course is stopped.
• It is also widely believed that antidepressants are highly addictive. In fact, most antidepressants are only psychologically addictive. But tranquilizers are already able to “accustom themselves” at the physical level.
• A person needs psychotropic drugs in order to calm the inner pain. But in fact, they only mask it.
• There is another negative property of such drugs - this is that they cannot be stopped drinking at any time. Even if the patient is tired of the side effects, he will need time to stop the medication. If you just pick up and quit, it will get even worse: more severe depression will begin than it was at the very beginning, in addition, symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, dizziness and palpitations may appear - and it is already difficult to distinguish drug dependence from the initial state, according to for which the drug was prescribed.

How to deal with psychosomatics

Another solution is psychological training. It is necessary to know that the cures for all diseases are inside a person. You just need to know how to open them. Doctors are aware of such cases when a person on the verge of life and death was saved thanks to love or an extraordinary zeal to live.

• An experienced psychologist can help a person to cure a psychomatic illness in a short time. The best trainings are group. So a person will not only recover faster, but will also gain many acquaintances.
• In such a situation, the role of close people is important. Who, if not they, should support a person in difficult situations? The most important thing is not to put pressure on the patient. You don’t need to say things like “You just don’t want to do anything” or “You don’t have anything, you made it all up yourself.” You need to understand that a person is already so bad, and if his relatives reproach him, he will fall into an even deeper depression or commit suicide. It is necessary to surround a person with care, and only then will he slowly but surely begin to recover. It would be ideal to take the patient to nature or on vacation. This will give him strength.
• You can start going to the gym, fitness club, as muscle tension stimulates the production of your own pleasure hormones by the brain.
• It is necessary to avoid vitamin deficiency, eat chocolate (scientists have long found out that eating sweets improves mood). Also shown are foods containing serotonin precursors (milk, legumes, bananas, nuts, brittle cheese).

How to treat pichosomatic diseases

Treatment of diseases of the internal organs that have arisen due to mental disorders should be carried out as a combination therapy. It is impossible to treat on your own. However, the patient will have to make efforts, trying to reverse his thinking and tragic attitude towards the world.

Treatment plan

• Find the connection between mental problems and bodily ill health.
• Choose a method of psychocorrection.
• Treat physical illness.

How to overcome psychosomatics

Psychosomatics is treatable. Of course, it is easier to shift the responsibility for the results of treatment to pills, a psychotherapist or relatives. But there is another way. This is the road from illness to health, which is passed by the Winner, whose wounds heal faster. To embark on this path, it is worth turning to the system of recovery of M.S. Norbekova, who teaches how to artificially create positive emotions to ignite joy inside the soul and force your body to be reborn to a new life without illness and mental oppression. At the initial stage, you will have to turn on all your willpower and painstakingly learn to create your mood, reinforcing psychological training with physical exercises and self-massage. To make your task easier, you can sign up for courses at the M.S. Norbekov, which are led by experienced teachers who have repeatedly helped students to fully recover. We recommend that you start your path to health by taking the First and Second Wellness Courses, as well as the author's training Emotion Management.

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What is psychosomatics of diseases and how to treat with it

Science knows many cases when a person develops a disease against the background of his psychological state. Perhaps, before answering the question “What is the psychosomatics of diseases and how to treat with it?”, You should give examples and understand the terminology, causes and other important issues.

How it all happens, a little history

Let's start with examples:

1. Parents turned to the doctor because the child abruptly began to lose his hearing. The girl was simply deaf. After examining the child, medicine reached a dead end, as there was no reason for hearing loss. But as it turned out, the reason lurked much deeper. Mom and dad didn't get along at all. Every day there were scandals in the family, the parents did not just shout at each other, but screamed furiously. It would seem that for a child this condition should have become the norm, but no. The child, on a subconscious level, did not want to hear the screaming and swearing of those closest to him. This is where deafness began. Mom, having learned about the diagnosis of her daughter and the cause of the development of the disease, was extremely excited. Parents managed to moderate their ambitions. And here it is, a miracle, the child's hearing began to improve over time.
2. The woman complained of shortness of breath. She was suffocating for no reason, she had neither allergic reactions nor bronchial asthma. She was unwell at certain times of the day. The doctors couldn't make a diagnosis. The psychotherapist was able to determine the cause of the disease. She was hidden in her distant youth. It was a fear that developed into a phobia and resulted in a physical illness.

There are many such examples. This is the same psychosomatic disease.

Psychosomatics - (translated from Greek - soul and body), a branch of medicine and psychology that studies the psychological causes as a result of which a person can develop physiological diseases (somatic). In other words, due to psychological stresses or disorders, a person can develop any disease.

Today, psychosomatic illnesses are very common in people of all ages. Not only adults suffer from them, but also children, even the elderly. Especially often psychologists note such diseases in adolescents.

What is the reason for this? Many factors contribute to the development of psychosomatic diseases in adolescents. The most popular is misunderstanding of parents, shouting, unreasonable punishment and so on. The treatment of such diseases is a rather difficult process, it includes not only drug treatment, but also systematic trips to a psychotherapist.

Also, psychosomatic symptoms of diseases include "groundless" health complaints. When a person is tormented by physical ailments, for example, heart pain. But examinations show absolutely nothing abnormal. Despite research, attacks of heart pain do not stop.

Another example of psychosomatic symptoms is the absence of the cause of the disease. There are symptoms, the diagnosis is made, but there is simply no cause. In this case, drug treatment can help only temporarily, relieve symptoms. But over time, the disease will definitely return.

Psychosomatic diseases are one of the most complex diseases. The relationship of physiological diseases with the mental state of a person has been studied for a very, very long time. Hippocrates himself repeatedly raised the issue of this relationship. But the terminology was introduced relatively recently. The word "psychosomatics" began to be used only in 1818.

The works of Kabanov M.M. became widely popular in narrow circles. in 1990. Entire scientific schools deal with this issue. They study the causes of psychosomatic diseases. But one thing is for sure, scientists still have not come to a single right decision. From time to time there are controversial questions over which the greatest minds of our time puzzle.

Classification of psychosomatic disorders

For a detailed study of psychosomatic diseases, as well as diagnosis and treatment, their classification is necessary.

First group

It includes people with psychosomatic functional disorders. With such psychosomatic deviations, there is no disease or organ damage. As a rule, these are insomnia, constipation, nervousness, enuresis. Children and adolescents are especially common in this category. It is not uncommon today to meet a baby with a psychosomatic sleep disorder. This is not just a sleep disorder - it is practically a lack of sleep. The child falls asleep for a short time, wakes up screaming, constantly nervous and irritable.

The symptoms of psychosomatic disorders are not easy in adults either. If it is, for example, insomnia, then sleeping pills practically do not help a person, and if it does, then for a short time. Sensitive intermittent sleep causes irritability in a person.

Such functional deviations certainly begin after nervous stresses and disorders experienced by a person. It is difficult to list from what exactly the disorder can develop, since a person is an individual creation. And if for one, for example, a quarrel in the family can mean practically nothing, then for another it will result in a serious nervousness. Only a specialist psychiatrist, together with a qualified psychologist, can diagnose this type of deviation.

Second group

The second group of psychosomatic diseases includes a number of diseases: obesity, anorexia, bulimia, gastritis, dermatitis, ulcerative colitis, bronchial asthma, abstract bronchitis, Crohn's disease, all kinds of ulcers, pancreatitis. The list of diseases is certainly much longer, but these are the most common. The cause of the disease is the same, nervous stress. Both a single nervous shock and regular nervous tension can lead to such diseases.

If the disease arose on a nervous basis, then it is necessary to fight it, first of all, with the help of a psychiatrist. It is rare that a person himself can determine the psychosomatics of his disease, unless the disease began to develop immediately after the stress experienced. But as a rule, the disease develops over time. In such cases, it is very difficult to diagnose psychomimetics.

Even an experienced specialist is not easy to name the cause of asthma in a child. This may be a fungus on the walls of the house in which the child lives, or maybe a divorce of parents. Therefore, in the event of such diseases, the consultation of an experienced psychiatrist will never be superfluous.

Third group

And the third group combines the most complex psychosomatic diseases. These are oncological formations, diabetes mellitus, kidney failure, and other, as a rule, chronic diseases. Of course, in this case, only treatment by psychologists will be ineffective.

There are many diseases that do not fit into any of the three categories, but are also caused by mental disorders. Despite this, the classification of psychosomatic diseases contributes not only to diagnosis, but also to treatment. For each of the three groups, its own method of diagnosis and prevention was developed.

Separately classify psychosomatic diseases in children

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases

Treatment of psychosomatic disorders is a long process, it requires the use of all kinds of psychotherapy. But psychotherapy does not help all groups of diseases. There are diseases in which psychotherapy is used only in combination with drug treatment. Much of the treatment depends on the patient.

If a person is aware of the cause of his illness, then the treatment proceeds much faster and more efficiently. In cases where a person does not understand the reason, an experienced psychotherapist tries to find it out, respectively, more time is spent on it. But the cases when a person is not only unaware, but also subconsciously rejects the cause of the emergence of psychosomatics are quite complex.

No less difficult cases are childhood moral traumas that have developed into physical illnesses over the years. Diseases that have arisen for such reasons require long-term treatment. And not always, even highly qualified specialists, manage to completely rid a person of the disease.

It should also be noted that psychotherapy is selected for each person exclusively individually. For two people who suffered from the same psychological stress, against which the disease developed, different courses of treatment are selected.

The psychotherapist selects a possible suitable range of methods for treating the patient. Sometimes techniques change during the treatment process, as one or another technique may not be suitable for a person. When choosing methods, the nature of the sick person, the degree of his diseases and the classification of the disease are necessarily taken into account. There are a lot of methods. Most often used:

• Psychotherapy of revealing conflicts.
• Family psychotherapy.
• Individual psychotherapy.
• Group psychotherapy.
• Supportive psychotherapy.
• Educational psychotherapy.
• Gestaltherapy.
• Psychotherapy of the human body.
• Group mixed psychotherapy.
• homogenous psychotherapy.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases is simply impossible without the desire of the patient. That is, it is impossible to forcefully cure a person from this kind of problem.

Today, the issue of hereditary predisposition to psychosomatic diseases is increasingly being raised. It is not yet possible to say for sure that such a predisposition exists, and statistics show that if parents are ill, then, as a rule, the psychosomatics of the disease is also observed in children. In practice, there were cases when a mother more than once suffered from nervousness, loss of sleep, and even the initial stage of enuresis, but was successfully cured of a psychosomatic illness.

The child had psychosomatic sleep disorders literally in the first months of life. Based on such examples, it makes sense to raise the issue of genetic predisposition to psychosomatics. There are cases when a child is already born with some kind of psychosomatic disorder. These are particularly difficult cases in psychotherapy.

General characteristics

In the people, psychosomatic diseases are called those that arose on a nervous basis, that is, as a result of nervous breakdowns, systematic experiences, stressful situations. We have already clarified the spectrum of psychosomatic problems above. Despite the fact that these may be completely different physiological diseases, psychotherapists find a huge number of common characteristics. Let's consider them.

The beginning of a psychosomatic illness is necessarily provoked by conflict, death, depression, nervousness, a complex, or any other nervous shock. Stress can contribute to both the development of the disease, and its prosperity or the development of more complex forms. Psychosomatic diseases have a direct relationship with a person's sexual characteristics.

For example, boys are more likely to get asthma in childhood, but in adulthood, bronchial asthma is more common in women.

Hypertension is a disease of men, while women suffer from coronary disease. This does not mean that girls in childhood cannot get asthma because of nerves at all. They just have psychosomatic asthma twice as rare.

Psychosomatic illnesses proceed in phases. As a rule, they all have periods of exacerbation (spring, autumn). Psychosomatic illnesses do not appear out of nowhere. If a person does not have a genetic predisposition to asthma, then she cannot frolic in him against the backdrop of the most terrible stress.

The same stress can cause different psychosomatic diseases for different people. As a rule, psychosomatic diseases develop taking into account the nature of a person. Aggressive, quick-tempered, restless people are characterized by diseases of hypertension and the heart. And here is a modest and shy disease of the stomach and intestines.

We get rid of the reasons, including ourselves

It is possible to get rid of the causes of psychosomatic diseases only with the help of a psychotherapist. Since stress is the cause of the disease, and it can manifest itself in each person in its own way, respectively, the reaction of each person is individual. Only an experienced specialist can identify this cause and track the stages of development, and only by analyzing, clarifying the patient's past problems.

In order to get rid of the cause of a psychosomatic illness, hypnosis helps in difficult cases, but here the opinion of experts is divided. It is not recommended to treat psychosomatic illness with hypnosis, it is not effective and pointless, but it is possible to try to deal with the cause and get rid of it. With the help of hypnosis, psychotherapists find out old forgotten grievances, fears, complexes, which are the basis of the stress that caused the psychosomatic illness. There are many other techniques with which the doctor works to find out the cause (image therapy).

You can often hear the question whether it is possible to treat and identify the causes of psychosomatic diseases on your own. Answer: no! People often try to save money in the hope that they will overcome an illness without the help of a psychotherapist. The result of self-treatment is only the neglect of the disease. There is an erroneous opinion that if you think about your problem that caused a psychosomatic illness, and pronounce it to everyone and everyone, it will become easier and the illness will go away by itself. This is a completely wrong assumption. For the most part, this is not a technique, but self-pity. What categorically to do to patients it is impossible.

The human body is a very complex well-oiled mechanism. All body functions are interconnected. All organs work smoothly only if they are healthy. If the disease has overcome one thing, then the chain will certainly break. It goes without saying that the human psyche is also one of the "hexagons" of which the whole mechanism consists.

It is simply necessary to worry about your nervous system, try your best to deal with stress, use psychological techniques, talk about painful things, solve problems, and not get stuck in them. Psychosomatic diseases are very, very terrible ailments, they are difficult to cure. The fight against psychosomatic illnesses is a difficult, long way and does not always give a sufficiently satisfactory result.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases

Causes of psychosomatic illnesses

Patients with psychosomatic illnesses make up a significant proportion of patients in the somatic network. In their treatment, it is necessary to take into account the role of psychological and psychopathological factors, the frequency of which ranges from 15 to 50%.

Psychosomatic diseases are somatic diseases in the occurrence and course of which psychological factors play a decisive role. The cause of psychosomatosis is affective (emotional) stress (conflicts, discontent, anger, fear, anxiety, etc.) in the presence of certain personality traits.

Psychological factors also play a role in other diseases (migraines, endocrine disorders, malignant neoplasms). However, one should distinguish between disorders, the occurrence of which is determined by mental factors and the prevention of which should be aimed primarily at eliminating and correcting emotional overstrain (psychotherapy and psychopharmacology) and other diseases. The dynamics of the latter is determined by mental and behavioral factors that change the nonspecific resistance of the organism, but at the same time are not the root cause of their occurrence. For example, it is known that the influence of psycho-emotional stress can reduce immune reactivity, and this in turn increases the likelihood of developing diseases; including infectious diseases.

The psychogenic component plays an important role in the occurrence and development of many organic diseases: hypertension, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, myocardial infarction, migraine, bronchial asthma, ulcerative colitis, neurodermatitis. These diseases are often called "major" psychosomatic diseases, emphasizing the severity of the disease and the leading role of the psychogenic factor in their occurrence.

Actually psychosomatic diseases are characterized by the following features:

• mental stress is decisive in their provocation;
• after manifestation, the disease acquires a chronic or recurrent course;
• first occurs at any age (but more often in late adolescence).

Psychosomatic diseases are the result of stress caused by long-term painful and insurmountable psychotraumas, an internal conflict between the same in intensity, but differently directed motives of the individual. It is assumed that some types of motivational conflicts are specific to certain forms of psychosomatic diseases. Thus, hypertension is associated with the presence of a conflict between high social control of behavior and the individual's unfulfilled need for power. An unfulfilled need leads to aggressiveness, which a person cannot identify through social attitudes. At the same time, unlike neuroses, which are also based on a personal conflict, in the case of psychosomatic diseases, there is a double repression - not only of a motive unacceptable to consciousness, but also of neurotic anxiety. An unresolved conflict of motives (as well as unresolved stress) ultimately gives rise to a reaction of capitulation, a refusal to seek treatment, and creates a general prerequisite for the development of psychosomatic diseases in the form of masked depression.

The defeat of certain organs and systems is due to genetic factors or features of ontogenetic development. Historically, seven diseases are classified as psychosomatic, namely: essential hypertension, peptic ulcer, bronchial asthma, neurodermatitis, thyrotoxicosis, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis.

How to treat psychosomatic diseases?

Therapeutic tactics in psychosomatic diseases provides for the main role of somatologists and appropriate methods of therapy.

However, psychotherapy is also important in the prevention of these diseases and at all stages of treatment and rehabilitation.

In the prevention of psychosomatic diseases, an important role is played by the timely identification of personal inclinations and the conduct of long-term personality-oriented psychotherapy with the help of a specialist psychotherapist. General practitioners and family medicine practitioners should learn and teach patients the skills of mental self-regulation, autogenic training in order to mobilize or relax in stressful situations.

A completely different approach to the treatment of neurotic and somatoform disorders, when the patient's somatic complaints are associated with functional somatic disorders, the main cause of which is a mental illness. In these cases, the treatment is carried out by a psychiatrist using psychotherapy and psychopharmacotherapy.

What diseases can be associated

Hypertensive disease (essential arterial hypertension). The emergence of arterial hypertension is due to the desire to openly express hostility with the simultaneous need for passive and adapted behavior. This conflict can be characterized as a conflict with such conflicting personal aspirations as a simultaneous focus on directness, honesty and openness in communication and politeness, courtesy, avoidance of conflicts. Suppression of negative emotions in a person during a period of stress, accompanied by a natural increase in blood pressure (BP), can worsen a person’s general condition and even lead to the development of a stroke.

At the initial stage of hypertension, most patients adequately assess their state of health, correctly perceive the recommendations and prescriptions of the doctor. Some patients with anxious and suspicious character traits perceive an increase in blood pressure as a tragedy. The mood in such patients worsens, attention is fixed on sensations, the range of interests is limited to the disease. In patients of the other group, the diagnosis of hypertension does not cause any reaction, they ignore the disease, refuse treatment. There was no direct relationship between the level of blood pressure and the likelihood of developing mental disorders. When examining the mental state of patients with arterial hypertension in combination with daily monitoring of blood pressure, for the first time, indicators of daily monitoring of blood pressure, which are significant in relation to the prognosis of the development of mental disorders, were established. They often develop with high variability in blood pressure during the day and a violation of the circadian rhythm of blood pressure fluctuations (increased or absent physiological decrease in blood pressure).

A patient with hypertension should explain the cause of his condition, inform that the disorders of the nervous system are of a functional nature, they are temporary, and in the case of appropriate systematic treatment, the impaired function will be restored.

Cardiac ischemia. For many years, emotional stress was thought to be a risk factor for coronary heart disease. Ideas of this kind are difficult to test, because only prospective studies can separate the psychological factors that led to the development of heart disease from the psychological consequences due to the influence of the disease itself. Studies conducted in the 1980s focused on several groups of possible risk factors, which include chronic emotional disorders, socioeconomic difficulties, overwork, long-term aggressors, and the type A behavior pattern.

The most reasonable is the type A behavior pattern, which is characterized by the following main features: hostility, excessive desire for competition, ambition, a constant feeling of lack of time and a focus on restrictions and prohibitions. During primary and secondary prevention, attention should be paid to the elimination of risk factors such as smoking, poor nutrition, and insufficient physical activity.

Angina. Anginal attacks are often triggered by emotions such as anxiety, anger, and excitement. The sensations experienced during the attack are sometimes very terrifying, and often the patient subsequently becomes overly cautious, despite all the explanations of the doctors and despite their efforts to encourage him to return to his usual active lifestyle. A good effect in overcoming these problems usually gives conservative treatment in combination with regular physical exercises appropriate to the patient's condition. Some patients are helped to regain their self-confidence by behavioral therapy, carried out according to an individually designed program.

Cardiophobia. Discomfort and unusual sensations in the left half of the chest, which first occur in a traumatic situation or even in its absence after prolonged asthenia, determine the growing anxiety and alertness of patients, fixation on the activity of the heart, which increases confidence in the presence of a serious heart disease and fear of death. . The unbearable fear that patients experience in connection with cardiovascular disorders cannot be compared with ordinary human feelings and experiences, either in their intensity or in nature. The feeling of imminent death becomes the only existing reality for the patient. And the obvious fact that dozens of similar heart attacks he had previously suffered did not lead to either a heart attack or heart failure, has no meaning for the patient.

Folk wisdom says that it's scary not to die, but it's scary to die, because the fate of these patients, "dying" repeatedly, is really tragic. Here, rational psychotherapy and suggestion are of particular importance. In some cases, even the life of the patient depends on their correct use by doctors.

It is believed that bronchial asthma is caused by emotional conflicts associated with conditions of subordination, but objective evidence in favor of this theory is not yet available. In bronchial asthma, there are contradictions between the desire and fear of a certain sensation. Such a conflict is described as a "own - give" conflict. There is such a quality of asthmatics as hypersensitivity, especially in relation to measures associated with reduced accuracy. Convincing evidence suggests that emotions such as anger, fear, and arousal can provoke and increase the severity of individual seizures in patients with bronchial asthma.

Psychiatric morbidity among children with asthma is not much higher than among the general child population. However, if such children have psychological problems, then treatment, as a rule, becomes much more complicated. When attempting to treat asthma with psychotherapy and behavioral therapy, there has been no convincing evidence that these methods are more effective than conventional advice and support. Individual and family psychotherapy may be useful in the treatment of patients with bronchial asthma in cases where psychological factors are present.

Ulcer disease. Strong prolonged affects, negative emotions, such as constant fear, great grief, severe fright during overstrain and depletion of the activity of the cerebral cortex, can lead to a prolonged spasm of the blood vessels of the stomach wall with a reduced resistance of its mucous membrane to the action of gastric juice, so an ulcer occurs. . The further development of peptic ulcer disease depends both on the ongoing action of these factors and on the occurrence of pain impulses in the interoreceptors of the affected organ. Psychotherapy has a great influence on the course of the disease and the effectiveness of treatment.

Colitis. Colitis is diagnosed in patients with low self-esteem, hypersensitivity to their own failures, and a strong desire for addiction to burns. Illness is often seen as the equivalent of boredom.

Neurodermatitis of psychosomatic origin is most often represented by eczema and psoriasis. Patients are often passive, it is difficult for them to assert themselves.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases at home

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases is carried out both inpatient and outpatient. This decision is made by the attending physician. Staying in a medical hospital is indicated at the stage of acute manifestation of psychosomatosis, after which a recovery period is indicated. It is important to work with the patient, facilitating the neuropsychiatric factors in the development of the disease.

What drugs to treat psychosomatic diseases?

Of the pharmacological preparations, preference is given to those that are necessary for the treatment of the developed disease. In parallel with taking medications, psychotherapeutic treatment is performed in order to influence the mechanism of the development of the disease and its provoking factors.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases with folk methods

The use of folk remedies is considered solely as an addition to the main methods of treatment. Preference is given to those herbs and plant extracts that are relevant in the treatment of a particular developed disease (for example, calendula decoction for hypertension or cabbage juice for peptic ulcer disease), but the choice of these should be discussed with your doctor.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases during pregnancy

Treatment of psychosomatosis during pregnancy is carried out according to the standard scheme. Drugs of choice are medicines that are safe for the expectant mother and child. Considerable attention is paid to working with a psychologist.

Which doctors to contact if you have psychosomatic diseases

Determining the psychological characteristics responsible for the occurrence of psychosomatic diseases, today the following characterological traits have been identified, which are observed in various combinations in patients with various diseases. These are traits such as isolation, restraint, anxiety, sensitivity, etc.

The main qualities of a person prone to the development of essential arterial hypertension are intrapersonal conflict, tension between aggressive impulses, on the one hand, and a sense of dependence, on the other. Under stress, such a person tends to restrain his own irritability and suppress the desire to respond to the offender. When examining the mental state of patients with arterial hypertension in combination with daily monitoring of blood pressure, it was found that at an early stage of arterial hypertension after an increase in blood pressure, anxiety levels decrease in patients. Thus, the compensatory role of prolonged psycho-emotional stress in increasing blood pressure is confirmed.

Anginal attacks are often triggered by emotions such as anxiety, anger, and excitement. Angina may be accompanied by atypical chest pain and shortness of breath caused by anxiety or hyperventilation. In many cases, there is a discrepancy between the actual ability of the patient to endure physical activity, established using objective methods of research, and their complaints of chest pain and activity limitation.

Initially vague anxiety and growing affective tension, anxiety, suspicion, fears, constitutional and acquired personality traits become the basis for the development of an acute cardiophobic attack.

Patients with bronchial asthma often have hysterical or hypochondriacal character traits, but they are not able to "release anger into the air" and provoke attacks of suffocation.

People suffering from peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum have certain characterological features. Among them are often observed persons with violent emotional reactions, with categorical judgments, straightforwardness in assessing the actions of others. Another category of patients is not prone to external manifestations of emotions. Often there are gloomy, dissatisfied, distrustful people.

Science knows many cases when a person develops a disease against the background of his psychological state. Perhaps, before answering the question “What is the psychosomatics of diseases and how to treat with it?”, You should give examples and understand the terminology, causes and other important issues.

Let's start with examples:

1. Parents turned to the doctor because the child abruptly began to lose his hearing. The girl was simply deaf. After examining the child, medicine reached a dead end, as there was no reason for hearing loss. But as it turned out, the reason lurked much deeper. Mom and dad didn't get along at all. Every day there were scandals in the family, the parents did not just shout at each other, but screamed furiously. It would seem that for a child this condition should have become the norm, but no. The child, on a subconscious level, did not want to hear the screaming and swearing of those closest to him. This is where deafness began. Mom, having learned about the diagnosis of her daughter and the cause of the development of the disease, was extremely excited. Parents managed to moderate their ambitions. And here it is, a miracle, the child's hearing began to improve over time.
2. The woman complained of shortness of breath. She was suffocating for no reason, she had neither allergic reactions nor bronchial asthma. She was unwell at certain times of the day. The doctors couldn't make a diagnosis. The psychotherapist was able to determine the cause of the disease. She was hidden in her distant youth. It was a fear that developed into a phobia and resulted in a physical illness.

There are many such examples. This is the same psychosomatic disease.

Psychosomatics - (translated from Greek - soul and body), a branch of medicine and psychology that studies the psychological causes as a result of which a person can develop physiological diseases (somatic). In other words, due to psychological stresses or disorders, a person can develop any disease.

Today, psychosomatic illnesses are very common in people of all ages. Not only adults suffer from them, but also children, even the elderly. Especially often psychologists note such diseases in adolescents.

What is the reason for this? Many factors contribute to the development of psychosomatic diseases in adolescents. The most popular is misunderstanding of parents, shouting, unreasonable punishment and so on. The treatment of such diseases is a rather difficult process, it includes not only drug treatment, but also systematic trips to a psychotherapist.

Also, psychosomatic symptoms of diseases include "groundless" health complaints. When a person is tormented by physical ailments, for example, heart pain. But examinations show absolutely nothing abnormal. Despite research, attacks of heart pain do not stop.

Another example of psychosomatic symptoms is the absence of the cause of the disease. There are symptoms, the diagnosis is made, but there is simply no cause. In this case, drug treatment can help only temporarily, relieve symptoms. But over time, the disease will definitely return.

Story

Psychosomatic diseases are one of the most complex diseases. The relationship of physiological diseases with the mental state of a person has been studied for a very, very long time. Hippocrates himself repeatedly raised the issue of this relationship. But the terminology was introduced relatively recently. The word "psychosomatics" began to be used only in 1818.

The works of Kabanov M.M. became widely popular in narrow circles. in 1990. Entire scientific schools deal with this issue. They study the causes of psychosomatic diseases. But one thing is for sure, scientists still have not come to a single right decision. From time to time there are controversial questions over which the greatest minds of our time puzzle.

Classification of psychosomatic disorders

For a detailed study of psychosomatic diseases, as well as diagnosis and treatment, their classification is necessary.

First group

It includes people with psychosomatic functional disorders. With such psychosomatic deviations, there is no disease or organ damage. As a rule, these are insomnia, constipation, nervousness, enuresis. Children and adolescents are especially common in this category. It is not uncommon today to meet a baby with a psychosomatic sleep disorder. This is not just a sleep disorder - it is practically a lack of sleep. The child falls asleep for a short time, wakes up screaming, constantly nervous and irritable.

The symptoms of psychosomatic disorders are not easy in adults either. If it is, for example, insomnia, then sleeping pills practically do not help a person, and if it does, then for a short time. Sensitive intermittent sleep causes irritability in a person.

Such functional deviations certainly begin after nervous stresses and disorders experienced by a person. It is difficult to list from what exactly the disorder can develop, since a person is an individual creation. And if for one, for example, a quarrel in the family can mean practically nothing, then for another it will result in a serious nervousness. Only a specialist psychiatrist, together with a qualified psychologist, can diagnose this type of deviation.

Second group

The second group of psychosomatic diseases includes a number of diseases: obesity, anorexia, bulimia, gastritis, dermatitis, ulcerative colitis, bronchial asthma, abstract bronchitis, Crohn's disease, all kinds of ulcers, pancreatitis. The list of diseases is certainly much longer, but these are the most common. The cause of the disease is the same, nervous stress. Both a single nervous shock and regular nervous tension can lead to such diseases.

If the disease arose on a nervous basis, then it is necessary to fight it, first of all, with the help of a psychiatrist. It is rare that a person himself can determine the psychosomatics of his disease, unless the disease began to develop immediately after the stress experienced. But as a rule, the disease develops over time. In such cases, it is very difficult to diagnose psychomimetics.

Even an experienced specialist is not easy to name the cause of asthma in a child. This may be a fungus on the walls of the house in which the child lives, or maybe a divorce of parents. Therefore, in the event of such diseases, the consultation of an experienced psychiatrist will never be superfluous.

Third group

And the third group combines the most complex psychosomatic diseases. These are oncological formations, diabetes mellitus, kidney failure, and other, as a rule, chronic diseases. Of course, in this case, only treatment by psychologists will be ineffective.

There are many diseases that do not fit into any of the three categories, but are also caused by mental disorders. Despite this, the classification of psychosomatic diseases contributes not only to diagnosis, but also to treatment. For each of the three groups, its own method of diagnosis and prevention was developed.

Separately classify psychosomatic diseases in children

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases

Treatment of psychosomatic disorders is a long process, it requires the use of all kinds of psychotherapy. But psychotherapy does not help all groups of diseases. There are diseases in which psychotherapy is used only in combination with drug treatment. Much of the treatment depends on the patient.

If a person is aware of the cause of his illness, then the treatment proceeds much faster and more efficiently. In cases where a person does not understand the reason, an experienced psychotherapist tries to find it out, respectively, more time is spent on it. But the cases when a person is not only unaware, but also subconsciously rejects the cause of the emergence of psychosomatics are quite complex.

No less difficult cases are childhood moral traumas that have developed into physical illnesses over the years. Diseases that have arisen for such reasons require long-term treatment. And not always, even highly qualified specialists, manage to completely rid a person of the disease.

It should also be noted that psychotherapy is selected for each person exclusively individually. For two people who suffered from the same psychological stress, against which the disease developed, different courses of treatment are selected.

The psychotherapist selects a possible suitable range of methods for treating the patient. Sometimes techniques change during the treatment process, as one or another technique may not be suitable for a person. When choosing methods, the nature of the sick person, the degree of his diseases and the classification of the disease are necessarily taken into account. There are a lot of methods. Most often used:

• Psychotherapy of revealing conflicts.
• Family psychotherapy.
• Individual psychotherapy.
• Group psychotherapy.
• Supportive psychotherapy.
• Educational psychotherapy.
• Gestaltherapy.
• Psychotherapy of the human body.
• Group mixed psychotherapy.
• homogenous psychotherapy.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases is simply impossible without the desire of the patient. That is, it is impossible to forcefully cure a person from this kind of problem.

Today, the issue of hereditary predisposition to psychosomatic diseases is increasingly being raised. It is not yet possible to say for sure that such a predisposition exists, and statistics show that if parents are ill, then, as a rule, the psychosomatics of the disease is also observed in children. In practice, there were cases when a mother more than once suffered from nervousness, loss of sleep, and even the initial stage of enuresis, but was successfully cured of a psychosomatic illness.

The child had psychosomatic sleep disorders literally in the first months of life. Based on such examples, it makes sense to raise the issue of genetic predisposition to psychosomatics. There are cases when a child is already born with some kind of psychosomatic disorder. These are particularly difficult cases in psychotherapy.

General characteristics

In the people, psychosomatic diseases are called those that arose on a nervous basis, that is, as a result of nervous breakdowns, systematic experiences, stressful situations. We have already clarified the spectrum of psychosomatic problems above. Despite the fact that these may be completely different physiological diseases, psychotherapists find a huge number of common characteristics. Let's consider them.

The beginning of a psychosomatic illness is necessarily provoked by conflict, death, depression, nervousness, a complex, or any other nervous shock. Stress can contribute to both the development of the disease, and its prosperity or the development of more complex forms. Psychosomatic diseases have a direct relationship with a person's sexual characteristics.

For example, boys are more likely to get asthma in childhood, but in adulthood, bronchial asthma is more common in women.

Hypertension is a disease of men, while women suffer from coronary disease. This does not mean that girls in childhood cannot get asthma because of nerves at all. They just have psychosomatic asthma twice as rare.

Psychosomatic illnesses proceed in phases. As a rule, they all have periods of exacerbation (spring, autumn). Psychosomatic illnesses do not appear out of nowhere. If a person does not have a genetic predisposition to asthma, then she cannot frolic in him against the backdrop of the most terrible stress.

The same stress can cause different psychosomatic diseases for different people. As a rule, psychosomatic diseases develop taking into account the nature of a person. Aggressive, quick-tempered, restless people are characterized by diseases of hypertension and the heart. And here is a modest and shy disease of the stomach and intestines.

We get rid of the reasons, including ourselves

It is possible to get rid of the causes of psychosomatic diseases only with the help of a psychotherapist. Since stress is the cause of the disease, and it can manifest itself in each person in its own way, respectively, the reaction of each person is individual. Only an experienced specialist can identify this cause and track the stages of development, and only by analyzing, clarifying the patient's past problems.

In order to get rid of the cause of a psychosomatic illness, hypnosis helps in difficult cases, but here the opinion of experts is divided. It is not recommended to treat psychosomatic illness with hypnosis, it is not effective and pointless, but it is possible to try to deal with the cause and get rid of it. With the help of hypnosis, psychotherapists find out old forgotten grievances, fears, complexes, which are the basis of the stress that caused the psychosomatic illness. There are many other techniques with which the doctor works to find out the cause (image therapy).

You can often hear the question whether it is possible to treat and identify the causes of psychosomatic diseases on your own. Answer: no! People often try to save money in the hope that they will overcome an illness without the help of a psychotherapist. The result of self-treatment is only the neglect of the disease. There is an erroneous opinion that if you think about your problem that caused a psychosomatic illness, and pronounce it to everyone and everyone, it will become easier and the illness will go away by itself. This is a completely wrong assumption. For the most part, this is not a technique, but self-pity. What categorically to do to patients it is impossible.

The human body is a very complex well-oiled mechanism. All body functions are interconnected. All organs work smoothly only if they are healthy. If the disease has overcome one thing, then the chain will certainly break. It goes without saying that the human psyche is also one of the "hexagons" of which the whole mechanism consists.

It is simply necessary to worry about your nervous system, try your best to deal with stress, use psychological techniques, talk about painful things, solve problems, and not get stuck in them. Psychosomatic diseases are very, very terrible ailments, they are difficult to cure. The fight against psychosomatic illnesses is a difficult, long way and does not always give a sufficiently satisfactory result.

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Most human diseases occur, according to scientists and psychologists, from experiences, psychological trauma, various negative thoughts and beliefs.
Has your bodily health deteriorated?

It is the soul that gives a signal, informing us of its illness. It is not for nothing that there is a saying among the people, familiar to us from childhood, "all diseases are from nerves."

What is psychosomatics

Psychosomatics (the ancient Greek word ψυχή - soul and σῶμα - body) is a direction in medicine, in other words, psychosomatic medicine that studies the influence of psychological factors on the occurrence and course of somatic, that is, bodily diseases. So psychosomatics - a disease or nerves?

Scientists have come to the conclusion that some mental problems are not diseases, they only disguise themselves as bodily diseases, and they cannot be treated with conventional medicines, they require a special approach.

Soul hurts

As Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said: Isn't health a miracle?". Of course a miracle, and what a miracle! Yes, what a misfortune: the person seems to be healthy, has no chronic diseases, and colds are not observed, but the soul hurts, hurts.
There is a feeling that supposedly passed through a meat grinder. It happens that sleep is disturbed, and there is no appetite. And some have a constant and unreasonable feeling of anxiety, and they involuntarily wait for something, without themselves understanding what.
What is it connected with? What hurts the soul?

Such symptoms occur in people with an unstable psyche and neurasthenics. But don't rush to sign yourself up for this Wednesday. Here we are talking about a functional disorder that occurs in completely healthy people. This may be due to climate change, increased solar activity, spring changes, vitamin deficiency, which mercilessly exudes the body.
Very often there are weather psychosomatic diseases, especially spring ones. In spring, the body feels a particular lack of vitamin and solar heat. And in those moments when nature wakes up after a long winter hibernation, the human body, exhausted during the winter, also wakes up.

Nature is awakening, hormones are playing, and if they are not curbed and directed in the right direction, you can get.
Spring neurosis can disguise itself as a variety of diseases, and very often it is very difficult to distinguish between psychosomatics or a disease.

When the psyche imitates the disease

A lot of people do not even suspect that their diseases have a mental basis. As a rule, psychosomatic diseases become twins of chronic diseases that last for years. Diseases such as:

• and all its symptoms: headache, high blood pressure, nausea.
• constricting pain behind the sternum
• Cholecystitis, pain in the pit of the stomach and in the right hypochondrium
• Colitis, flatulence, stool disorder
• and sciatica
• Bronchitis

Paradoxically, all these problems of a neurotic nature, psychosomatic, arise from scratch and without a previous illness. It is not characteristic of a true disease.

So, to the question: Psychosomatics - disease or nerves?, you can answer: "nerves"?
Exacerbations of true chronic diseases are not associated with the season. Real diseases can be affected by negative factors, such as heat and low atmospheric pressure on hypertension and angina pectoris. Cold and damp for arthritis and bronchitis.

Errors in nutrition affect gastritis and cholecystitis. But psychosomatics is devoid of a clear causal relationship. And psychosomatic illnesses are not treatable by taking drugs that aim to eliminate the mimicking illness. But sedatives: valerian, corvalol, peony tincture, and light antidepressants alleviate the condition and even completely eliminate the problem.
Neither ultrasound, nor ECG, nor FGDS, nor any other examinations confirm the disease, all organs are healthy, but you are “sick”. It is the psyche that mimics the disease.

How to treat psychosomatic diseases? At the first sign of an exacerbation of any disease, it is necessary to establish the cause as soon as possible. So, visit a doctor and pass the necessary tests, and conduct examinations. In no case should you self-medicate and do not take any medications on your own until a doctor prescribes. Independent and thoughtless taking of medicines will only worsen the situation.
If a diagnosis has been made - psychosomatics, it is advisable to consult a psychotherapist and take measures so that there are no repetitions of psychosomatic diseases, so that the psyche does not imitate illnesses.
Prevention of mental illness
So that the soul does not get sick, you need to avoid stress, physical overload, get enough sleep. Avoid beriberi and prepare the body for spring problems from the end of winter. How? With the help of special diets and vitamin therapy.
And most importantly, look for positive emotions in everything, more positive! The more joyful thoughts and happy moments, the less room for illness remains in the soul.
The human body has limitless abilities, and it is capable of self-healing. Man himself is truly an inner pharmacy. And the brain contains a complete set of drugs for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Just one signal from the nervous system to the human body can produce substances that relieve pain and even stop the growth of cancer cells. The key to medicines and body control is in our minds, we just need to skillfully open the lock and use our limitless abilities.

So what is psychosomatics? Disease or nerves? Nerves you can't miss!

Interesting fact
Doctors identify the relationship of specific emotions to the predisposition of diseases:

1. 1. Fear strikes the heart
   2. Anger and rage - the liver
   3. Apathy and depression - stomach.

Table of psychosomatic diseases

To date, there is a well-known table compiled by Louise Hay.

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