Naturally, there were many such events and past fears torment me constantly

Psychologist, Existential consultant

Honestly, yes, you are right, I am in a constant struggle with myself. Knowing what to do right, I do the wrong thing, which is why the war inside is gaining momentum and I don’t know how to get out

Knowing what to do right, I do wrong

How to control yourself in any annoying situation?

Well, it’s trivial, I know that it’s not worth communicating with a guy who has a girlfriend, I know that he’s deceiving both of them and I still communicate and stupidly hope for something. (Struggle number 1) Next, I know, in order to survive and succeed, I need to do business, learn languages, play sports, I know, but I spend time on TV series right away! Immediately after work, I quickly run home to spend the whole evening watching the series. And I’m ashamed of myself and still continue every day. (Struggle number 2)

Psychologist, Analytical Therapist

I have never had stomach problems, I myself react very emotionally to everything and take every little thing to heart. I can burst into tears from the movie so much that I can’t stop it. The last few years have seen a lot of stressful things happen in life in all areas. There is no rest at all from thoughts and nightmares; even in my sleep I am in constant tension. The first time in the summer, on the same day that I was fired, I had a stomach ache and a fever (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 very painfully) and again I had a stomach spasm, although this time there was no fever or even nausea, I ate normally, everything was fine, except for the heaviness in the stomach and 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 with a spasm, after 10 minutes it went away and it hasn’t happened since yesterday. I also have a wandering pain in the back, sometimes the upper part of the back, sometimes the lower back aches (precisely aching pain). As far as I understand, it’s all from the nerves, a lot of things have accumulated and the body cannot tolerate stress. What do i do? How to treat psychosomatic pain and how to stop reacting to stressful situations? How to control yourself in any annoying situation?

Sometimes what cannot be expressed mentally (feelings, thoughts) and, as a result, by speech, is expressed by the body. The body is supported by the psyche.

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

How to get rid of stress and psychosomatic illnesses?

An inextricable connection between the state of body and soul was seen by ancient doctors. The soul and body are a single whole, part of which will definitely be sick if the whole feels unwell. Resentments and fears, our experiences, the state of our psyche, lead to diseases associated not so much with the physiological disruptions of our body, but with the state of our Soul, called psychosomatic diseases. Having recognized the presence of psychosomatic diseases, medicine has not yet treated them

learned. Oriental medicine views a person as an energetic whole; it believes that illness occurs when there is a disruption in the flow of energy into our body, which is caused by negative emotions. Tibetan doctors restore 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 mental state. Only by revealing the cause of a psychosomatic illness can it be cured. Because of one’s spiritual experiences, a stressful state occurs, 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 begin to treat 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 - learn to breathe correctly (diaphragmatic breathing). With diaphragmatic breathing, the diaphragm goes down and stretches the lungs, forcing air into them, as a result of which the lungs are completely filled with air. Having learned diaphragmatic breathing, you can independently balance the energy balance 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 identifying psychosomatics and diagnosing it.

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

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

Psychosomatics examines the connection between the psyche and the body; it is a disease of the body as a result of mental ill-being, lack of harmony between the psyche and body.

Causes of development of psychosomatic diseases

The word “psychosomatics” itself means the interaction between the psyche and body. Most human psychosomatic diseases arise as a result of some psychological reasons, mainly under the influence of stress.

We are all constantly exposed to stress throughout our lives. Any impact on a person, any life situation or event, even joyful ones, is stress.

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

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

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

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

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

What are psychosomatic diseases?

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

• a person's blood pressure begins to jump
• pain begins in the upper back and neck, because when we are anxious, we unconsciously raise our shoulders and try to hide our head
• from constant tension in 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 stomach, pain, diarrhea
• Gastric ulcer is very often triggered by a stressful condition - an increased release of hydrochloric acid to digest food that is not in the stomach and, as a result, erosion. Microbes settle in these places and the process begins...
• problems arise with the functioning of the cardiovascular system, the so-called vegetative-vascular dystonia, as a result of an anxiety disorder
• under stress, fluctuations in insulin and glucose in the blood occur - frequent breakdowns can give impetus to the development of diabetes mellitus

Clinicians of the last century identified a number of psychosomatic diseases called the “holy seven of psychosomatosis”:

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 psychomatic:

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

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Symptoms of psychosomatic diseases

The main symptoms of psychosomatic diseases:

1. traditional treatment does not help
2. tests and examinations of the patient do not show the presence of the disease, although the disease actually exists (this is not a simulation!)
3. a person becomes confident in the uniqueness and peculiarity of his illness

When we consult a doctor, we receive traditional treatment, which temporarily relieves the symptoms, but after the end of the course of treatment everything comes back. The disease becomes incurable with traditional treatment methods.

How to treat psychosomatic diseases

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 in the body. And the reason is in the head - and until a person gets rid of, for example, increased anxiety, and learns to cope with its manifestation, until then these problems will continue.

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

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

If a person is in a stressful situation for a long time, at first he develops an anxious state: restlessness, anxiety. Over time, this state can turn into a depressive state, because defense mechanisms are exhausted and at this moment immunity decreases. All the body's defense systems are curtailed. A person becomes susceptible, among other things, to colds. Colds cannot be called psychosomatic, but due to decreased 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 (psychic help to cope with stress)
• correction of some personal attitudes
• some types of behavioral psychotherapy
• gelstatt 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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7 answers to the question: How to treat psychosomatics?

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

Although the list of diseases 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 doctors and take pills?

On the relationship between the physical and mental

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

In fact, and by and large, all diseases (from the runny nose 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:

• relieving symptoms of the disease,
• mitigating 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 medications taken increases.

Is it possible to fix a problem without knowing its causes? Is it possible to recover from a disease without getting to its source?

But it is possible to find out the cause of any disease. She's already famous! And not to someone 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 diseases, to put it simply, is in the patient’s head!

The causes of psychosomatic diseases are personal and psychological problems:

• aggressiveness,
• bitterness,
• 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 negativity accumulated in the mental sphere; it is the body’s way of telling its owner: “Attention! Your Soul is suffering! "

The organs of vision of most people are designed 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 deliberately harm themselves.

For these reasons, a psychological problem often becomes noticeable only when it becomes a physical reality - manifested in the body.

How to treat psychosomatics yourself

Psychosomatics can be treated! To do this you need:

1. Realize that everything in a human being is one. Negative thoughts, words and an overall unhealthy lifestyle lead to ill health. And, on the contrary, healthy habits, positive thoughts and attitudes lead to 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. Identify among the problems the most significant and frequently occurring ones. Try to 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! You need to look for all the answers 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, and look into the future with optimism; the goal is a joyful, love-filled look at the present life, where the future is beautiful, pleasant and desirable to look into.
6. Develop a plan to achieve the goal with step-by-step completion of tasks.
7. Start acting without delay and without doubting success!

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

Only with self-love can you reach your goal and improve your health. You need to thank your body (yourself) 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 you can't do without help

Doctors do not treat psychosomatic diseases, but only help hide them. A person provokes the occurrence of a disease himself, and accordingly, he can recover from it on his own!

But very often, when solving psychosomatic problems, you 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 himself and get rid of the illness.

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

• body-oriented,
• cognitive-behavioural,
• gestalt therapy,
• neurolinguistic 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.

There are many directions and movements, and many effective techniques for getting rid of psychosomatic disorders have been developed.

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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, and various negative thoughts and beliefs.

Is your physical health upset? This soul gives a signal, informing us about its illness. It’s not for nothing that there is a saying among people, familiar to us since childhood, “all illnesses come 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, which studies the influence of psychological factors on the occurrence and course of somatic, that is, bodily diseases. So is psychosomatics a disease or nerves?

Scientists have come to the conclusion that some mental problems are not diseases, they are only disguised as physical illnesses, and they cannot be treated with conventional medications; they require a special approach.

As Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said: “Isn’t health a miracle?” Of course it’s a miracle, and what a miracle! But here’s the problem: the person seems to be healthy, has no chronic diseases, and there are no colds, but his soul hurts and hurts.

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

What is this connected with? Why does your soul hurt? Such symptoms occur in people with unstable psyches and neurasthenics. But don’t rush to sign yourself up for this environment. Here we are talking about a functional disorder that occurs in completely healthy people. This may happen due to climate change, increased solar activity, spring changes, or vitamin deficiency, which mercilessly depletes the body.

Weather-related psychosomatic illnesses are very common, especially in spring. In spring, the body feels a particular lack of vitamins and solar heat. And in those moments when nature wakes up after a long winter hibernation, the human body, exhausted over the winter, also wakes up. Nature awakens, hormones play, and if they are not curbed and directed in the right direction, you can get neurosis.

Spring neuroses can masquerade as a variety of diseases, and very often it is very difficult to distinguish between psychosomatics and illness.

When the psyche imitates illness

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

• Hypertension and all its symptoms: headache, high blood pressure, nausea.
• Angina pectoris, squeezing pain behind the sternum
• Cholecystitis, pain in the pit of the stomach and in the right hypochondrium
• Gastritis
• Colitis, flatulence, bowel dysfunction
• Arthritis and sciatica
• Bronchitis

Paradoxically, all these problems of a neurotic nature, psychosomatic, arise out of nowhere and without a previous illness. This is uncharacteristic of a true illness. So, then, to the question: is psychosomatics a disease or nerves, you can answer: “nerves”?

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

Errors in nutrition have an impact on gastritis and cholecystitis. But psychosomatics lacks a clear cause-and-effect relationship. And psychosomatic diseases cannot be treated with drugs that are aimed at eliminating the disease imitating. But sedatives: valerian, corvalol, peony tincture, and mild 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”. This psyche imitates illness.

How to treat psychosomatics

How to treat psychosomatic diseases? At the first signs of an exacerbation of any disease, the cause must be established as quickly as possible. Therefore, visit a doctor and take the necessary tests and conduct examinations. Under no circumstances should you self-medicate or take any medications on your own until prescribed by a doctor. Taking medications independently and thoughtlessly will only worsen the situation.

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

Prevention of disease of the soul

To keep your soul from hurting, you need to avoid stress, physical overload, and get enough sleep. Avoid vitamin deficiency and prepare the body for spring problems from the end of winter. How? With the help of special diets and vitamin therapy.

And the main thing is to look for positive emotions in everything, more positive! The more joyful thoughts and happy moments there are, the less room there is for illness in the soul.

The human body has limitless abilities and is capable of self-healing. Man is truly his own internal pharmacy. And the brain contains a complete set of medications for the prevention and treatment of various diseases. Just one signal received from the nervous system into the human body can produce substances that relieve pain and even stop the growth of cancer cells. The key to medicine and control of the body is in our consciousness, we just need to skillfully open the lock and use our limitless abilities. So what is psychosomatics? Illness or nerves? Nerves you can avoid!

Doctors highlight the connection between specific emotions and predisposition to diseases:

1. Fear strikes the heart
2. Anger and rage - liver
3. Apathy and depressed state – stomach.

Table of psychosomatic diseases

Today there is a well-known table compiled by Louise Hay.

How to fight and get rid of psychotics

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 remains relevant, but is also becoming increasingly 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 talk about psychosomatic diseases. The term “psychosomatics” was first coined by the famous German physician Heinroth. Today in medicine this is a direction that studies the influence of the patient’s state of mind on his health. In adults with psychomatic disorders, the following diseases occur: ulcers, myopia, sore throat, 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 psychomatic illnesses are not illnesses at all. This is wrong. With the right approach, depression, hypochondria and other borderline conditions caused by stress and developing into somatic diseases can be treated. A person does not become depressed 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 eliminate 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 excellent in the fight against psychomatic illnesses. But before taking them, you need to consult a doctor: he will help you choose the optimal type of tranquilizers or antidepressants or prescribe a combination of drugs.

Disadvantages of drugs

• There is an opinion that antidepressants can be harmful to health. It's true that many antidepressants can cause symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, a sharp increase in appetite, and drowsiness. The biggest disadvantage of antidepressants is that the negative effect will remain even after stopping the course.
• It is also widely believed that antidepressants are highly addictive. In fact, most antidepressants are only psychologically addictive. But tranquilizers are already capable of “accustoming” on a physical level.
• A person needs psychotropic drugs to calm internal pain. But in reality they only mask it.
• There is another negative property of such drugs - this is that you cannot stop drinking them at any time. Even if the patient is tired of the side effects, he will need time to stop the medications. If you just take it 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 cope with psychosomatics

Another solution is psychological training. It is necessary to know that the cure for all diseases is within a person. You just need to be able to open them. Doctors know of cases where 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 cure a psychomatic illness in a short time. The best trainings are group ones. This way, a person will not only heal faster, but will also make many friends.
• In such a situation, the role of loved ones 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. There is no 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 feeling bad, and if his loved ones reproach him, he will fall into an even deeper depression or commit suicide. You need to surround a person with care, and only then will he begin to recover slowly but surely. 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 or fitness club, since muscle tension stimulates the production of your own pleasure hormones in the brain.
• You need to avoid vitamin deficiency, eat chocolate (scientists have long found out that eating sweets improves your mood). Also shown are foods containing serotonin precursors (milk, legumes, bananas, nuts, brittle cheese).

How to treat psychosomatic diseases

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

Treatment plan

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

How to overcome psychosomatics

Psychosomatics can be treated. Of course, it is easier to shift responsibility for the results of treatment to the pills, psychotherapist or loved ones. But there is another way. This is the road from illness to health, which is traversed by the Winner whose wounds heal faster. To take this path, you should turn to the M.S. health system. Norbekova, who teaches how, using the artificial creation of positive emotions, to ignite joy within 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 use all your willpower and painstakingly learn to create your mood, reinforcing psychological training with physical exercise and self-massage. To make your task easier, you can sign up for courses at the M.S. Center. Norbekov, which are taught 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 original training on Managing Emotions.

Many doctors know how to treat psychosomatics, but only the Personality itself can finally defeat it.

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 them with its help?”, we 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. The parents turned to the doctor because the child suddenly began to lose hearing. The girl simply went deaf. After examining the child, medicine came to a dead end, since there was no reason for the hearing loss. But as it turned out, the reason was hidden much deeper. Mom and Dad didn't get along with each other at all. Every day there were scandals in the family, the parents not only shouted at each other, but yelled furiously. It would seem that for a child this condition should 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. That's when deafness began to develop. Mom, having learned about her daughter’s diagnosis and the cause 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 out of breath for no reason, she had no allergic reactions or bronchial asthma. She was unwell at certain times of the day. Doctors could not make a diagnosis. The psychotherapist was able to determine the cause of the disease. It was hidden in distant youth. It was a fear that developed into a phobia and resulted in a physical illness.

There are many similar examples that can be given. This is the same psychosomatic disease.

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

Today, psychosomatic diseases can very often be found in people of any age. Not only adults suffer from them, but also children, even the elderly. Psychologists especially often 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. Treatment of such diseases is a rather complicated process; it includes not only drug treatment, but also systematic visits to a psychotherapist.

Psychosomatic symptoms of diseases also 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 a cause of illness. There are symptoms, a diagnosis has been made, but there is simply no cause. In this case, drug treatment can only help temporarily and relieve symptoms. But over time, the disease inevitably returns.

Psychosomatic diseases are one of the most complex diseases. The connection between physiological diseases and a person’s mental state 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 M. M. Kabanov became widely popular in narrow circles. in 1990. Entire scientific schools are studying this issue. They study the causes of psychosomatic diseases. But one thing is for sure: scientists have not yet come to a single correct decision. From time to time, controversial issues arise that puzzle the greatest minds of our time.

Classification of psychosomatic disorders

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

First group

This includes people with psychosomatic functional disorders. With such psychosomatic abnormalities, there is no disease or organ damage. As a rule, these are insomnia, constipation, nervousness, and enuresis. Children and teenagers are especially common in this category. It is not uncommon today to encounter 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, and is constantly nervous and irritated.

Symptoms of psychosomatic disorders do not occur easily in adults either. If it is, for example, insomnia, then sleeping pills practically do not help the person, and if they help, then for a short time. Light, interrupted sleep causes irritability in a person.

Such functional deviations certainly begin after nervous stress and disorders experienced by a person. It is difficult to list what exactly the disorder can develop from, since a person is an individual creature. And if for one, for example, a quarrel in the family may mean practically nothing, then for another it will result in serious nervousness. Only a 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 still the same, nervous stress. Both a single nervous shock and regular nervous tension can lead to such diseases.

If the disease arose from nervousness, then it must be dealt with, first of all, with the help of a psychiatrist. It is rare that a person himself can determine the psychosomatics of his illness, unless the illness began to develop immediately after experiencing stress. But as a rule, the disease develops over time. In such cases, it is very difficult to diagnose psychomimetics.

It is not easy for even an experienced specialist to name the cause of asthma in a child. It could be fungus on the walls of the house where the child lives, or it could be a divorce of parents. Therefore, if such diseases occur, consultation with 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, usually chronic, diseases. Of course, in this case, only treatment by psychologists will be ineffective.

There are many diseases that do not fall 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 diagnostic and prevention method was developed.

Psychosomatic diseases in children are classified separately

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 for which psychotherapy is used only in combination with drug treatment. Treatment largely depends on the patient.

If a person understands the cause of his illness, then treatment proceeds much faster and more effectively. In cases where a person does not understand the reason, an experienced psychotherapist tries to figure it out, and accordingly more time is spent on this. But cases when a person not only does not realize, but also subconsciously rejects the cause of psychosomatics, are quite complex.

No less complex cases include childhood moral traumas that develop into physical illnesses over the years. Diseases arising for such reasons require long-term treatment. And it is not always possible, even for highly qualified specialists, 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 treatment methods for the patient. Sometimes techniques change during the treatment process, since one or another technique may not be suitable for a person. When selecting methods, the nature of the patient, the degree of his illness and the classification of the disease must be 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.
• Homogeneous psychotherapy.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases is simply impossible without the patient’s desire. That is, it is impossible to forcibly 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 sick, then, as a rule, the psychosomatic disease is also observed in children. In practice, there have been 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

People call psychosomatic diseases those that arose on a nervous basis, that is, as a result of nervous breakdowns, systematic experiences, and stressful situations. We have already clarified the range 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 look at them.

The onset of a psychosomatic illness is necessarily provoked by conflict, death, depression, nervousness, complex or any other nervous shock. Stress can contribute to both the development of the disease and its prosperity or development of more complex forms. Psychosomatic diseases have a direct connection with a person’s gender 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 generally cannot develop asthma due to nervousness. It’s just that psychosomatic asthma is half as common among them.

Psychosomatic illnesses occur 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 he cannot frolic under 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 character of a person. Aggressive, hot-tempered, restless people are prone to hypertension and heart disease. But modest and shy diseases of the stomach and intestines.

Getting rid of the reasons, including on your own

Getting rid of the causes of psychosomatic diseases is possible only with the help of a psychotherapist. Since the cause of the disease is stress, and it can manifest itself differently in everyone, therefore, 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 and 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. Treating psychosomatic illnesses with hypnosis is not recommended, it is not effective and pointless, but trying to figure out the cause and get rid of it is possible. With the help of hypnosis, psychotherapists find out old forgotten grievances, fears, complexes, which are the basis of the stress that caused a psychosomatic illness. There are many other techniques with which the doctor works to find out the cause (imagery 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 their illness without the help of a psychotherapist. The result of self-medication is only the neglect of the disease. There is a misconception that if you think about your problem that caused a psychosomatic illness and talk about it to everyone, it will become easier and the illness will go away on its own. This is a completely wrong judgment. For the most part, this is not a technique, but self-pity. What patients should absolutely not do.

The human body is a very complex, well-oiled mechanism. All body functions are interconnected. All organs function smoothly only if they are healthy. If the disease overcomes one thing, then the chain certainly breaks. It goes without saying that the human psyche is also one of the “hexahedrons” that make up the whole mechanism.

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

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases

Causes of psychosomatic diseases

Patients with psychosomatic illnesses make up a significant portion 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, dissatisfaction, anger, fear, anxiety, etc.) in the presence of certain personal characteristics.

Psychological factors also play a role in the case of other diseases (migraines, endocrine disorders, malignant neoplasms). However, it is necessary to distinguish between disorders, the occurrence of which is determined by mental factors and the prevention of which should be aimed, first of all, at the elimination and correction of emotional overstrain (psychotherapy and psychopharmacology) and other diseases. The dynamics of the latter are determined by mental and behavioral factors that change the nonspecific resistance of the body, but 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 ones.

The psychogenic component plays an important role in the occurrence and development of many organic diseases: hypertension, gastric and duodenal ulcers, 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 provoking them;
• after manifestation, the disease becomes chronic or recurrent;
• Occurs for the first time at any age (but more often in late adolescence).

Psychosomatic diseases are a consequence of stress caused by long-term painful and insurmountable psychotraumas, internal conflict between the individual’s motives of equal intensity, but differently directed. 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 unrealized need for power. An unfulfilled need leads to aggressiveness, which a person cannot identify through social attitudes. Moreover, unlike neuroses, which are also based on 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, refusal of search treatment, and creates a general precondition for the development of psychosomatic diseases in the form of masked depression.

The defeat of certain organs and systems is caused by 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 for psychosomatic diseases include the main role of somatologists and appropriate methods of therapy.

However, psychotherapy is also important in preventing the occurrence 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 tendencies and the conduct of long-term person-oriented psychotherapy with the help of a psychotherapist. General practitioners and family medicine doctors should learn and teach patients the skills of mental self-regulation, autogenic training for the purpose of mobilization or relaxation 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 mental illness. In these cases, treatment is carried out by a psychiatrist using psychotherapy and psychopharmacotherapy.

What diseases can it be associated with?

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

At the initial stage of hypertension, most patients adequately assess their health status and correctly perceive the doctor’s recommendations and prescriptions. Some patients with anxious and suspicious character traits perceive increased blood pressure as a tragedy. The mood of such patients worsens, attention is fixed on sensations, and 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 and refuse treatment. There was no direct relationship between blood pressure levels and the likelihood of developing mental disorders. When examining the mental state of patients with arterial hypertension in combination with daily blood pressure monitoring, for the first time, indicators of daily blood pressure monitoring were established that are significant in relation to the prognosis of the development of mental disorders. They more often develop with high variability of blood pressure during the day and disruption of the circadian rhythm of blood pressure fluctuations (increased or absent physiological decrease in blood pressure).

A patient with hypertension should be explained the cause of his condition, informed that his nervous system disorders 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. These kinds of ideas are difficult to test because only prospective studies can separate the psychological factors that lead to the development of heart disease from the psychological consequences of the disease itself. Research conducted in the 1980s focused on several groups of possible risk factors, including chronic emotional disorders, socioeconomic difficulties, overwork, long-term abusers, and Type A behavior patterns.

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 eliminating risk factors such as smoking, poor nutrition, and insufficient physical activity.

Angina pectoris. Angina attacks are often triggered by emotions such as anxiety, anger and agitation. The sensations experienced during an 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 a normal active lifestyle. A good effect in overcoming these problems is usually achieved by conservative treatment in combination with regular physical exercises appropriate to the patient’s condition. Some patients are helped to regain self-confidence by behavioral therapy, carried out according to an individually developed program.

Cardiophobia. Discomfort and unusual sensations in the left half of the chest, which first arise in a psychotraumatic situation or even in its absence after prolonged asthenia, determine the increasing 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, neither in their intensity nor in their 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 does not have any meaning for the patient.

Popular wisdom says that it is not scary to die, but scary to die, therefore the fate of these patients, who “die” repeatedly, is truly tragic. Here rational psychotherapy and suggestion are of particular importance. In some cases, even the patient’s life depends on their correct use by doctors.

It is believed that bronchial asthma is caused by emotional conflicts associated with conditions of subordination, but there is no objective evidence in favor of this theory yet. With bronchial asthma, there are contradictions between the desire and fear of a certain sensation. Such a conflict is described as a “own-give” conflict. A quality of asthmatics such as hypersensitivity is noted, especially in relation to measures associated with reduced accuracy. Convincing evidence suggests that emotions such as anger, fear and agitation can provoke and increase the severity of individual attacks in patients with bronchial asthma.

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

Peptic ulcer disease. Strong prolonged affects, negative emotions, such as constant fear, great grief, severe fright during overexertion and depletion of the cerebral cortex, can lead to prolonged spasm of the blood vessels of the stomach wall with reduced resistance of its mucous membrane to the action of gastric juice, which is how 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 interoceptors 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, increased sensitivity to their own failures and a strong desire for dependence and burns. Illness is often seen as the equivalent of melancholy.

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

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases at home

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases is carried out both inpatient and outpatient. The decision about this 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 to alleviate the psychoneurological factors in the development of the disease.

What drugs are used to treat psychosomatic diseases?

Of the pharmacological drugs, preference is given to those that are necessary for the treatment of the developed disease. In parallel with taking medications, psychotherapeutic treatment is carried out in order to influence the mechanism of development of the disease and the factors that provoke it.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases with traditional 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 specific developed disease (for example, calendula decoction for hypertension or cabbage juice for peptic ulcers), 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 regimen. The drugs of choice are medications that are safe for the expectant mother and child. Significant attention is paid to working with a psychologist.

Which doctors should you contact if you have psychosomatic illnesses?

Determining the psychological characteristics responsible for the occurrence of psychosomatic diseases, the following characterological traits have been identified today, which are observed in different 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 considered to be intrapersonal conflict, tension between aggressive impulses, on the one hand, and a feeling 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 blood pressure monitoring, it was revealed that at the early stage of arterial hypertension, after an increase in blood pressure in patients, a decrease in the level of anxiety occurs. Thus, the compensatory role of prolonged psycho-emotional stress in increasing blood pressure is confirmed.

Angina attacks are often triggered by emotions such as anxiety, anger and agitation. 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 patient's actual exercise capacity, as determined by objective testing, and their complaints of chest pain and activity limitations.

Initially, vague concern and growing affective tension, anxiety, suspicion, fears, constitutional, as well as 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 “let their anger out into the air,” which provokes attacks of suffocation.

People suffering from gastric and duodenal ulcers have certain characterological characteristics. Among them there are often people with violent emotional reactions, categorical judgments, and 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.

In development psychosomatic diseases The main provoking factor is considered psychological.

And it’s not without reason that their characteristic symptoms are similar to those of somatic diseases:

• often feel dizzy;
• there is a feeling of general malaise, fatigue;
• body temperature rises, etc.

Psychosomatic problems often manifest themselves stomach ulcers, high blood pressure,.

Groups of psychosomatic diseases

When a patient consults a doctor with complaints, there is a need to undergo examinations and tests. This will help him determine the diagnosis and prescribe effective treatment.

However, if after a course of therapy the disease subsided and soon returned again, it can be assumed that its causes are psychosomatic in nature and it is unlikely that it will be possible to eliminate it completely with medication.

The list of possible diseases of a psychosomatic nature can be grouped as follows:

1) Problems with the respiratory system;

2) Diseases of the heart and blood vessels;

3) Eating disorder (obesity, nervous anorexia, bulimia);

4) Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;

5) Diseases of the endocrine system;

6) Problems with the skin;

7) Diseases associated with gynecology;

8) Disorders of a sexual nature;

9) Oncology;

10) Diseases of infectious origin;

11) Diseases of the musculoskeletal system;

12) Psychovegetative dysfunction;

13) ;

14) Headache.

Causes of psychosomatic diseases

To determine the possible causes of health problems, there is a table of diseases. How to treat a psychosomatic illness and get rid of its characteristic symptoms can also be learned from such tables.

One of the first who dared to say that all human systems are closely interconnected is Louise Hay.

She suggested that the bad thoughts and emotions that a person has contribute to the destruction of his body at the physical level and provoke the appearance of diseases. Her theory was also studied by a famous psychologist and homeopath Valery Sinelnikov.

There is a table of diseases according to Sinelnikov, using which you can determine the psychosomatics of your diseases and begin to work on yourself in order to eliminate the psychological factor that provokes it:

1) Headache . It appears as a result of the hypocrisy inherent in man.
What is said out loud is very different from real thoughts and feelings. Therefore, strong nervous tension appears and, as a result, pain in the head;

2) Runny nose . Often its appearance is a symbol of tears. Deep down, a person is very depressed and worried, but does not splash out his emotions;

3) Cystitis . After conducting research, Sinelnikov found that the psychosomatic nature of cystitis is hidden in anger and irritability towards the opposite sex or sexual partner;

4) Cough . The appearance of any disease accompanied by a severe cough indicates a person’s hidden desire to express himself and draw attention to his person.
It may also be a response to disagreement with others;

5) Diarrhea . The condition of the intestines is reflected by the presence of strong fear and anxiety. A person feels insecure in this world and is not ready to fight his fear. That is why a huge number of cases of diarrhea occur before an important and exciting event;

6) Constipation . Retention of feces in the intestines is due to the fact that a person does not want to let go of painful memories from the past, part with unnecessary people, or lose a job that he does not like.
Another psychosomatic cause of constipation is stinginess and greed for money;

7) Angina . A person who constantly suffers from throat diseases, including sore throat, keeps emotions and anger inside himself that he is not ready to spill out. The throat reacts to this with the appearance of an inflammatory process. A person does not express himself and his feelings, cannot stand up for himself and ask for anything;

8) Herpes . Oral diseases are directly related to prejudice against people. In the subconscious, a person harbors caustic words and expressions, accusations against other people that he does not express to them;

9) Uterine bleeding . This is a symbol of passing joy. It is necessary to get rid of the resentment and anger that has accumulated over the years in order to return joy to your life and get rid of problems;

10) Nausea, vomiting . The psychosomatic background of this phenomenon is hidden in non-acceptance and non-digestion of the world. Another reason may lie in subconscious fears, which is what is considered the main cause of toxicosis in pregnant women;

11) Hemorrhoids, anal fissures . Problems associated with the anus indicate that it is difficult for a person to get rid of the old and unnecessary in his life. Every time a person gets angry, experiences fear and pain of loss;

12) Thrush and other diseases of the genital organs. Genitals are a symbol of principles, so the problems associated with them are the fear of not being at the top, uncertainty about one’s attractiveness. Thrush can also appear when a person feels aggression towards a member of the opposite sex, or a specific sexual partner;

13) Allergy, urticaria . Such diseases indicate a lack of self-control. Therefore, subconsciously the body begins to bring out feelings and emotions that have been suppressed: irritation, resentment, anger;

14) Kidneys . Diseases of this organ are caused by a combination of such emotions: criticism and condemnation, anger and malice, resentment and hatred. A person thinks that he is haunted by failures and does everything wrong in life, thereby disgracing himself in the eyes of others. Also, the condition of the kidneys may be reflected by fear of the future and one’s future well-being;

15) Gallbladder . People suffering from gallbladder problems tend to harbor anger, irritability and anger towards other people. This provokes inflammatory processes in the organ, stagnation of bile and biliary dyskinesia, which soon leads to the appearance of stones.

This is not the entire list of diseases that may have a psychosomatic origin. There are an innumerable number of them.

The main thing is to remember that all the negative thoughts and emotions that a person keeps inside himself can lead to disorders of the human nervous and immune systems. As a result, a huge number of health problems appear, so all your negative emotions, experiences and grievances must be thrown out.

Complete table according to Sinelnikov

Hidden text

Alcoholism is a feeling of loneliness, uselessness, unwillingness to live, lack of attention and affection.

Allergies – lack of confidence in one’s own strength, stress, feelings of fear.

Apathy is resistance to feelings, fear, suppression of one’s self, indifferent attitude of others.

Apoplexy, seizure - flight from family, from oneself, from life.

Appendicitis - fear of life.

Arthritis, gout - lack of love from others, increased criticism of oneself, feelings of resentment, indignation, anger.

Asthma – suffocating love, suppression of feelings, fear of life, evil eye.

Insomnia – fear, guilt, mistrust.

Rabies, hydrophobia – anger, aggression.

Eye diseases - anger, frustration.

Stomach diseases are a fear.

Dental disease – lingering indecision, inability to make a clear decision.

Leg diseases - fear of the future, fear of being unrecognized, fixation on childhood traumas.

Diseases of the nose - resentment, crying, a feeling of insignificance, it seems to you that no one notices or takes you seriously, the need for someone's help.

Liver disease – anger, chronic resentment, self-justification, constant bad mood.

Kidney disease - boredom, anger at yourself, self-criticism, lack of emotions, disappointment, annoyance, failure, failure, mistake, failure, inability, reacting like a small child, self-criticism, losing.

Back problems - lack of emotional support, lack of love, guilt, fear generated by lack of money.

Sore knees - pride, selfishness, fear.

Sores, wounds, ulcers - hidden anger.

Warts – belief in one’s own ugliness, evil eye, envy.

Bronchitis - disputes, swearing in the family, tense atmosphere in the house.

Varicose veins – loss of strength, overwork, overload.

Sexually transmitted diseases - mistreating other people, believing that sex is a dirty business.

Excess weight – fear, need for protection, self-denial.

Gray hair - stress, worries, overwork.

Hemorrhoids are a worry about the past.

Hepatitis – fear, anger, hatred.

Herpes – a feeling of guilt for your thoughts about sex, shame, expectation of punishment from Above.

Gynecological diseases - reluctance to be a woman, dislike for oneself, rude, inattentive attitude of men.

Deafness – unwillingness to listen to others, stubbornness.

Pus, inflammation - thoughts of revenge, worry about the harm caused, a feeling of remorse.

Headaches - fear, self-criticism, feeling of self.

Depression – anger, hopelessness, envy.

Diabetes – jealousy, the desire to control the lives of other people.

Diarrhea, diarrhea - fear.

Dysentery – fear, strong anger.

Bad breath – gossip, dirty thoughts.

Jaundice – envy, jealousy.

Gallstones – bitterness, heavy thoughts, pride.

Constipation – conservatism in thoughts.

Goiter, thyroid – a feeling of hatred because you have been hurt, suffering, excessive sacrifice, a feeling that your path in life is being blocked.

Itching – remorse, repentance, impossible desires.

Heartburn – fear, severe fear.

Impotence – fear of being ineffective in bed, excessive tension, feelings of guilt, anger at the previous partner, fear of the mother.

Infection – irritation, anger, frustration.

Curvature of the spine – fear, clinging to old ideas, distrust of life, lack of courage to admit one’s mistakes.

Coughing is a desire to attract the attention of others.

Menopause - fear of age, fear of loneliness, fear of not being desired anymore, self-rejection, hysteria.

Skin diseases - anxiety, fear.

Colic, sharp pain - anger, irritation, frustration.

Colitis - inflammation of the mucous membrane of the colon - too demanding parents, a feeling of oppression, lack of love and affection, lack of a sense of security.

A lump in the throat is fear.

Conjunctivitis – anger, frustration, disappointment.

High blood pressure – worries about the past.

Low blood pressure – lack of love in childhood, defeatist moods, lack of faith in one’s own strength.

Nail biting - nervousness, frustration of plans, anger at parents, self-criticism and devouring oneself.

Laryngitis - inflammation of the larynx - fear of expressing your opinion, indignation, resentment, indignation against someone else's authority.

Lungs – depression, grief, sadness, misfortune, failure.

Leukemia is the inability to enjoy life. Fever - anger, rage.

Shingles - fear and tension, too much sensitivity.

Mastitis is excessive care for someone, overprotection.

Uterus, disease of the mucous membrane - fear, disappointment.

Meningitis – anger, fear, family discord.

Menstrual problems - rejection of one's feminine nature, guilt, fear, attitude towards the genitals as something dirty and shameful.

Migraine - dissatisfaction with one's life, sexual fears.

Myopia, myopia – fear of the future.

Thrush, candidiasis - love of controversy, excessive demands on people, distrust of everyone, suspicion, feelings of disappointment, hopelessness, anger.

Seasickness - fear of death.

Incorrect posture, head position - fear of the future, fear.

Indigestion – fear, horror, anxiety.

Accidents - belief in violence, fear of speaking out loud about one's problems.

Sagging facial features – a feeling of resentment and indignation towards one’s own life.

Sagging buttocks – loss of strength and self-confidence.

Gluttony – fear, self-condemnation.

Baldness – fear, tension, desire to control everyone and everything.

Fainting, loss of consciousness – fear.

Burns – anger, irritation, rage.

Tumors - remorse, remorse, obsessive thoughts, old grievances, you are fueling indignation and indignation.

Brain tumor – stubbornness, unwillingness to accept anything new in your life.

Osteoporosis is a feeling of lack of support in this life.

Otitis - pain in the ears - anger, unwillingness to hear, scandals in the family.

Belching is fear.

Pancreatitis – anger and frustration, dissatisfaction with life.

Paralysis – fear, horror.

Facial paralysis – reluctance to express one’s feelings, tight control over one’s anger.

Parkinson's disease is the fear and desire to control everything and everyone.

Food poisoning - a feeling of defenselessness, falling under someone else's control.

Pneumonia (pneumonia) – despair, fatigue from. life, emotional wounds that cannot be healed.

Gout – lack of patience, anger, need for dominance.

Pancreas – lack of joy in life.

Polio – extreme jealousy.

Cutting is a violation of one’s own principles.

Loss of appetite - worries, self-hatred, fear of life, the evil eye.

Leprosy is the inability to manage your life, confidence in your worthlessness or lack of spiritual purity.

Prostate – guilt, sexual pressure from others, male fears.

Cold – self-hypnosis “I get colds three times every winter”, disorder in thoughts, confusion in the head.

Acne is dissatisfaction with oneself.

Psoriasis – skin – fear of being offended, wounded, death of one’s feelings.

Cancer is a deep wound, a long feeling of indignation and resentment, grief, sadness and devouring oneself, hatred, damage, curses.

Wounds – anger and self-blame.

Stretch – anger and resistance, reluctance to move in a certain direction in life.

Rickets – lack of love and security.

Vomiting is a fear of new things.

Rheumatism – feeling of being victimized, deceived, tormented, persecuted, lack of love, chronic feelings of bitterness, resentment, resentment, resentment.

Spleen – melancholy, anger, irritation, obsessions.

Hay fever – accumulation of emotions, persecution mania, guilt.

Heart – emotional problems, worries, lack of joy, hardness of heart, tension, overwork, stress.

Bruises and bruises are self-punishment.

Sclerosis – hard-heartedness, iron will, lack of flexibility, fear, anger.

Decreased function of the thyroid gland – yielding, refusal. Feeling hopelessly depressed.

Spasm of the jaw muscles – anger, desire to control everything, refusal to openly express one’s feelings.

Spasms are tension of thoughts due to fear.

Adhesions on the stomach - fear.

AIDS – self-denial, blaming oneself for sexual reasons, a strong belief in one’s “badness.”

Stomatitis – censure, reproaches, words tormenting a person.

Cramps, spasms - tension, fear, tightness.

Slouching is a feeling that you are carrying a heavy burden on your shoulders, defenselessness and helplessness.

Rash - a desire to attract attention, irritation, small fears.

Tachycardia – heart – fear.

Tick ​​- eyes - fear, the feeling that someone is constantly watching you.

Large intestine - confused thoughts, layers of the past.

Tonsillitis - inflammation of the tonsils - fear, suppressed emotions, stifled creativity.

Nausea-fear.

Traumas – anger at oneself, feelings of guilt.

Birth traumas are all from a past life.

Tuberculosis – selfishness, cruel, merciless” painful thoughts, revenge.

Skin tuberculosis, lupus - anger, inability to stand up for oneself.

An enlarged thyroid gland is an extremely frustrating experience that you are not able to do what you want. Always realizing others, not yourself. Fury that they were left behind.

Acne - the feeling that you are dirty and no one loves you, small outbursts of anger.

Impact, paralysis - refusal to give in, resistance, better to die than to change.

Choking, seizures - fear.

Animal bites - anger, need for punishment.

Insect bites – feeling of guilt over little things.

Insanity is an escape from family, an escape from life’s problems.

Urethra, inflammation - anger.

Fatigue – boredom, lack of love for your work.

Ears, ringing - stubbornness, reluctance to listen to anyone, reluctance to hear the inner voice.

Phlebitis, inflammation of the veins - anger and frustration, blaming others for restrictions in life and lack of joy in it.

Frigidity – fear, denial of pleasure, pleasure, belief that sex is bad, insensitive partners, fear of the father.

Boils - anger, constant boiling and seething inside.

Snoring is a persistent refusal to free yourself from old patterns.

Cellulite is long-lasting anger and a sense of self-punishment, attachment to pain, fixation on the past, fear of choosing your own path in life.

Jaw, problems - anger, indignation, indignation, resentment, revenge.

Neck – stubbornness, rigidity, inflexibility, inflexibility, refusal to look at a question from different angles.

Thyroid gland - humiliation; I will never be able to do what I want. When will it be my turn?

Eczema is an extremely strong contradiction to something, a rejection of something foreign.

Enuresis – fear of parents.

Epilepsy – a feeling of persecution, a feeling of struggle, violence towards oneself.

Stomach ulcer – fear, belief in one’s “badness”.

Barley - anger.

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We expand on the concept of “psychosomatics”, talk about how to treat psychosomatics on your own, without drugs, study the treatment method, its main stages - and all this in my article.

Psychosomatics: where is the truth and where is the lie?

First of all, let's figure out what psychosomatics is. There are several points of view regarding this term.

In wide circles of non-specialists, there is a popular opinion that Psychosomatics is some kind of disease that people suffer without a serious reason. Those. a person has to take an exam tomorrow, and he suddenly catches a cold and says that it’s psychosomatics. My husband has to submit a report at work, but he’s stuck in the toilet and can’t cope with his bowels. We are sending our child to a children's camp for the first time and our hands are itchy, covered in inflammation, allergies. ABOUT! This is psychosomatics.

This is a very common and fundamentally wrong approach. Because Psychosomatics means something different, comprehensive, with deep scientific roots.

Let's move on to the concept of “Psychosomatics” from the point of view of science, a direction in science. This is a whole branch of knowledge that lies on the border between medicine and psychology. This is a branch of medical psychology that studies the psychological causes of diseases. There is another related term - somatopsychology. This is a direction in medicine that studies the psychological consequences, worries, changes, experiences that provoke the disease. For example, a person gets sick. He has high blood pressure. Because of this, he begins to get nervous, sleep poorly - this is somatopsychology.

There are several directions and sections within psychosomatics. In short, most of these sections are related to areas of psychological assistance. There is a body-oriented psychology and there is a body-oriented psychosomatics, as a method, as a set of approaches and views.

There is Gestalt therapy, within the psychological direction of Gestalt therapy there is psychosomatics in accordance with the concept of Gestalt. There is also psychoanalysis and psychosomatics of the psychoanalytic direction.

In this article I will talk mainly about psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychosomatics.

Don't be afraid of these words. Now I will tell you in detail in simple words.

Support of psychosomatics

The psychoanalytic approach to psychosomatics is based on the classical works of Freud. Freud in one of his works says something like this: in fact, both the body and what we perceive with the psyche are one and the same. We think that the body is something separate, and the psyche is separate. But in fact, these are not two parts of one thing. This is a whole, inseparable, and this is us. For example, when we invite a friend to visit, we do not call her in separate parts: my psyche wants my friend to come or my body wants it. No. We want as a whole person. And the same goes for a friend. Those. we want her body to come or her psyche to come. We actually separate these concepts artificially. Our thought processes are designed in such a way as to separate one from the other, but in nature one does not exist without the other, it is a single whole.

Now let's move on to how psychoanalysis suggests treating psychosomatics. Here it is important for us to focus on the fact that psychosomatics is not some sudden chaotic disorder in organs or functions. Psychosomatics is all diseases. We just don’t always understand the psychological cause of these diseases. But treating a disease means finding out the psychological cause. And vice versa, as soon as we find out the psychological cause, we automatically get rid of it and cure the disease.

identifying the cause

We need to do some work, exercises, and direct our efforts to research ourselves and the disease that we have. And in this work we have several steps. Several sequential actions that we can combine into 4 large groups:

1. Description of the manifestation of the disease

The first group includes a very detailed description of how the disease manifests itself. Moreover, we describe not only its technical side. For example, I have stones in the gall bladder and, accordingly, how this manifests itself: sometimes it hurts and stings in my right side, where the liver is, or sometimes it radiates to the back. At these moments, it’s hard for me to walk and move, I have to take painkillers and give me rest, sometimes a spoon of honey or warm tea helps. This is a technical description. We are expanding this description. It is necessary to think about how this disease is observed and experienced by me throughout the day. We describe what we avoid, we don’t allow anything spicy or fried. We sometimes do not go on long journeys, because an attack of illness may occur on the road and there will be no medical help there. We limit ourselves on some trips; most often we try not to perform physically active actions. We are careful, picky about food, and often don’t get enough sleep. The feeling of nausea and bitterness is present both in the morning and in the evening when we go to bed. How else does this affect relationships? We sometimes feel that somewhere internally we are afraid of some contacts, barbs. We smooth out the corners at some points.

Thus, we described in detail how the disease manifests itself. How do we protect ourselves from it? How we cope with it. How we adapt our lives to it.

2. Significance of the organ

The second important section is to go into the meaning of the symptoms, the meaning of the organ that hurts. We need to describe this meaning from two sides: from the point of view of physiology and psychology. Those. one part is physiology, the second part is the psychology of culture and language. For example, sometimes our heart hurts. Doctors diagnose angina pectoris. What is a heart? Let's start talking. from a physiological point of view. The heart is a motor. This is an organ that constantly beats, contracts and pulsates blood. The heart has a certain rhythm, there is a healthy rhythm, and there is an unhealthy rhythm. The heart is located in the chest - it is a vital organ on which our life depends. For example, life depends on the kidney, but not as acutely as on the heart. If a limb is amputated, then we will remain alive, but without a heart we cannot live. This is physiology.

And if we talk about linguistics, about the cultural component, then we need to ask the question, what does the heart mean, what does it mean in our language. There's a whole treasure trove of ideas here. The heart is the organ through which we experience feelings. we fall in love, experience difficult conditions

The heart is a sensory organ. With our hearts we feel various emotions and experiences, both positive and negative. The heart is part of the vascular system. There are veins that are cut when people want to commit suicide, blood is taken from the vein for analysis, etc.

Here we have collected the second large block about what it means for our organ to be sick.

3. Medical history

The third block is the history of the disease. When did it appear, at what moment, when did it worsen, when did it disappear. We need to describe this in as much detail as possible and not only describe our physiological state, but also our psychological one: how we felt about this, when we were diagnosed with this or when we noticed the first signs, and describe as much as possible the situations that accompanied this disease.

When we have described the history of the disease, we need to collect, in parallel, those life situations that accompanied certain exacerbations or manifestations of diseases, exacerbations of symptoms. For example, I discovered solar dermatitis when my husband and I first went on vacation to Turkey. This was our first big trip together, we prepared for it for a long time, each of us was nervous in our own way. Before the flight we quarreled several times, etc.

And every summer, solar dermatitis returns, but it does not always manifest itself clearly. For example, there was a recession when my husband and I bought an apartment one summer. This is how we describe each symptom and each life circumstance that accompanied the exacerbation or mitigation of these symptoms.

4. Personal history

Fourth section. We describe a personal story as a small biography. But a specific biography. We need to go to very, very early childhood and describe what we know about the fate of your parents, about their relationships, the story of your birth. Were there any children before you or after you and how they were treated, how the parents planned them, what kind of pregnancies there were, whether the children survived.

We remember our early childhood: the experience of breastfeeding, who raised us, what losses, moves, and divorces our parents experienced in early childhood. We describe this story in great detail, and then combine it with the history of the disease. What is meant? We need to combine all these four blocks and find patterns. They are present in the manifestations of any disease. Through the organ, through its disorder, we talk to ourselves. Some of our experiences, long lost, long forgotten, suddenly return at some point in our lives. They haven't disappeared, they haven't evaporated. They are still somewhere deep within us. And when some similar situation appears, as a rule, similar to a child’s situation, we react to it. But sometimes we don’t notice that this reaction exists. And a symptom, some kind of disruption of a certain organ allows this feeling to reach us.

4. Finding commonality

We need to look at all these four parts of the exercise performed and find something common in the symptoms.

For example, take the common disease varicose veins. Let's start looking. Varicose veins arose at a certain point in time. We describe when, we describe what was happening at that moment. Perhaps during this period your daughter met a young man. A romance is brewing between them, and it’s not just a romance, it will grow into something more and there will soon be a wedding. But you think that this couple is not very successful. You don’t like this young man who met your daughter, maybe because he’s not quite young anymore, maybe his appearance isn’t the same. And this is something very reminiscent of what happened in your past. You notice that your legs are starting to get tired, that a vein has appeared. You begin to reason that what is actually happening in this situation is hidden, not obvious. It is obvious that you are not very happy with this future marriage. But what is happening is not obvious. You begin to think about what the veins mean, what the legs mean. You find one of the meanings of vein: through veins, blood returns to the heart. This is very symbolic and similar to how they say. about memories that we suddenly felt, remembered and experienced. Accordingly, varicose veins, which interfere with the flow of blood through the veins, seem to interfere with the return of some memories to the heart. This is the meaning of the organ and at the same time as a hint to us.

What kind of memories could there be? Here, children's history is important to us and we begin to remember that we were once forbidden to do a lot. We were told who to be friends with, who not to be friends with, what profession to get and what not. And this is very reminiscent of what is happening now with our child: we want to forbid him, forbid her to get married, to be friends with someone. Conflicting feelings fight within us; not very pleasant memories try to return to our hearts.

Conclusion

Thus, by thinking, remembering and analyzing, we train. We begin to understand how our body, or rather we created this disease, and what it means. And as soon as we understand the significance of this disease, in a very short period of time we see that the symptoms decrease and the state of health improves, i.e. we get rid of the disease.

Another point that is important to describe here is that independent work with psychosomatics is like a kind of independent treatment. We can eliminate some diseases and symptoms ourselves. It's like putting a band-aid on a wound - anyone can do it. But there are medical manipulations, medical operations that require training, knowledge, skills, and technology. It’s absolutely the same in psychosomatics. There are diseases, complex cases that require not only independent knowledge, but are sometimes impossible without the opinion of a specialist.

Therefore, in order to solve this disease there are several methods, several auxiliary materials that I have prepared for you here on our website. For example, you can cope with a disease such as psoriasis with the help of the book “7 Real Causes of Psoriasis”.

With wishes of health to you and your loved ones,
Vladimir Malyanov

Nowadays, doctors often detect difficultly diagnosed diseases in patients, without obvious reasons for their manifestation. Many ailments are very insidious: the patient has not identified any physical factors for the onset and progression of the disease. For example, tests are normal and there are no hereditary pathologies. Then specialists think about a possible pathology of a psychosomatic nature.

Psychosomatic diseases have different hidden causes and a special approach to diagnosis in order to begin treatment of psychosomatic diseases. The effect of mental health disorders on physical organs has been studied since ancient times. According to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, the body and soul are one. For more than two thousand years, humanity has been trying to learn more deeply about the influence of emotions on the physical state of the human body.

Factors causing psychosomatic diseases

Any treatment of psychosomatic diseases begins after a complete diagnosis of the patient’s body. Often the root of the problem lies in a psychological factor - severe stress suffered. Researchers in the field of psychosomatics argue that even the slightest negative emotions can significantly harm the body. If a person keeps everything unsaid to himself, sooner or later psychological suppression will produce negative results. Over time, bad thoughts burn out inside a person, destroying, according to adherents of psychomatics, the body itself. Ailments appear that, according to the logic of things, the patient should not have.

Every year, medical statistics indicate an increase in psychosomatic diseases among the population. More than 40% of illnesses are provoked by internal conflicts and mental trauma. Viral infections are not capable of causing as much harm as a depressed psychological state. Scientists have conducted similar studies on animals - the trend is the same, although there are many differences in humans. The key one is the ability to recognize and control your emotions. But alas, it is not typical for a being of high intelligence to have 100% control over his own feelings. It is these emotional experiences that can have a devastating impact on our health.

If the patient suspects a disease of this nature, then treatment of psychosomatic diseases will begin with a course of psychotherapy, which will help to identify all the hidden fears, anger, sadness that have resulted in a dangerous illness. In some cases, it is quite easy for a psychosomatic specialist to identify the root of the problem. For example, a patient shared the true reason for his depressed state of mind due to the death of a loved one and fears for his health. In most stories, it is much more difficult to find the chain of illness and cure a psychosomatic illness.

Symptoms of psychosomatic diseases

Not every specialist will be able to immediately suspect the patient’s true causes in order to begin treatment for psychosomatic diseases in a timely manner. Often such ailments do not have any special features outwardly. For example, gastritis can be bacterial and somatic in nature - this cannot be detected overnight. In some patients, the stomach is actually affected by the Helicobacter bacteria, while others felt acute cramps after another stressful situation. Diseases of different organ systems in most cases are directly related to the dynamics of the patient’s mental state:

• vascular-cardiac system;
• nervous system;
• immunity.

After a thorough diagnosis of the patient, a regular doctor will prescribe drug therapy to alleviate the condition and cure the disease. After the first symptoms subside, the patient is confident that he has been cured, omitting the psychological causes of the disease. Towards the end of drug therapy, stronger pharmacological drugs and procedures will be needed to treat psychosomatic diseases. Several years after “wandering” in the diagnosis, the patient acquires a chronic form of his problem, plus the side effects of addiction to the drugs affect him. The patient loses hope of a complete cure, not realizing that for complete healing he needs to turn to a professional psychotherapist. It is this specialist who will “unblock” chronic stress, and with it other diseases will go away.

The key nuance lies in the following: patients sometimes tend to remain silent about mental problems due to shyness, and the doctor does not ask about the psychological state, considering this tactlessness on his part.

Psychosomatic diseases are not amenable to traditional therapy - you need to find out the psychological reasons and begin treatment with a psychotherapeutic bias. The key symptom of diseases of this spectrum is the inaction of traditional medicine. If a patient is not going through a good period in his personal life, it is advisable for him to immediately begin his journey of examination with a psychotherapist to quickly identify disorders in the body.

What ailments are classified as psychosomatic diseases

Many doctors and patients lose sight of the psychological essence of the disease. The patient is confident that the next stress will be fleeting, and doctors are looking for new ways to heal, for example, from bronchial asthma. Few people know that this disease in most cases is caused by psychological disorders. This also applies to other diseases:

• hyperventilation syndrome;
• essential hypertension;
• cardiophobic neurosis;
• ischemic heart problems;
• myocardial infarction;
• arrhythmias;
• vegetative-vascular dystonia.

By the way, the last disease on the list is completely treatable without drug therapy due to its 100% psychosomatic nature.

The study of psychosomatic diseases is most relevant in our time. Young people suffer from numerous gastrointestinal disorders and skin diseases. This is a direct result of the influence of the psyche on human health. As for young girls, due to psychological instability they suffer from many gynecological pathologies, which lead to subsequent infertility. Stress is also a common culprit of endocrine disruption. It can cause diabetes mellitus, hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. Rheumatic and sexual ailments also arise in most cases due to psychomatics.

Risk groups for patients with psychosomatic diseases

The key contingent of patients are hidden people who keep their inner emotions from the outside world. Among melancholic people there are many individuals who, with external calm, hide the raging volcanoes in their souls. Even the most balanced and calm people sometimes lose their temper. Such situations can lead to the onset of one or another psychosomatic disease.

The tendency to veiled diseases manifests itself in childhood or adolescence. Children and adolescents are not yet mentally stable enough to overcome stress on their own without consequences for the physiological health of the body. But in our society there are unique people who are able to live safely into adulthood without getting hung up on their problems. They also suffer from psychosomatics, but diagnosis for them will be lengthy and difficult.

For example, alcoholics will not be able to cope with their addiction until they believe in themselves as individuals. The roots of the problem may come from childhood, when parents set the bar too high for their child. In adulthood, some inconsistency leads to drowning problems with alcohol.

Have you noticed that your body catches a cold faster precisely when you are not in a good mood and have a good attitude towards life? It has also been scientifically proven that anemia occurs due to fear of the unknown. ENT diseases often occur in uncommunicative patients, for whom expressing their opinion is a real problem. A doomed psychological state leads to the manifestation of gastritis. Women who are afraid of independence in decision-making suffer from infertility. As you can see, lack of self-confidence can lead to psychosomatic illnesses.

What is the course of treatment for psychosomatic illnesses?

General methods are not acceptable for the treatment of psychosomatics. An individual approach must be applied to each patient. First of all, the doctor must find out the nature of the disease - physiological or psychosomatic. An experienced psychotherapist will help with this. Even the patient himself can find out the true cause of his condition. Psychosomatics cannot be led to simulation or to inventing a problem. This is a truly destructive process that requires immediate treatment, which is not like classical drug therapy.

If doctors were able to identify a psychosomatic illness in your child, this is a reason to check the psychological state of all family members. To eliminate psychosomatics, you need to find out about the cause, and it often lies in a poor home environment. Even for the treatment of mature patients, it is necessary to involve relatives. Psychotherapists work with entire families, advising them to defuse their lifestyle by changing their work environment and even moving.

In most cases from medical practice, the somatic aspect of the problem is hidden so deeply that it requires a psychotherapeutic course. Nowadays, the effectiveness of this type of treatment in getting rid of bronchial asthma, various allergies and gastrointestinal ailments has been proven. The right combination of psychotherapy and medication can restore the patient’s lost health without returning to illness. The main thing is for patients to remember diseases that require additional consultation with a psychotherapist. Many people are lucky enough to get relief from their symptoms after a few sessions of psychotherapy.

Psychosomatic diseases are a category of unhealthy conditions that arise from the interaction of physiological aspects and mental factors. Psychosomatic diseases are mental deviations that are detected at the level of physiology, disorders of a physiological nature that manifest themselves at the level of the psyche, or physiological disorders that develop as a result of the influence of psychogenic factors. Medical statistics claim that approximately 32% of ailments are based precisely on internal confrontation, mental trauma and other problematic aspects, and are not caused by exposure to a virus or bacterial infection.

Causes of psychosomatic diseases

It has long been noted that the bodily symptoms that arise from a psychosomatic disorder quite often reflect the patient’s psychological problem. Simply put, psychosomatic manifestations are often bodily metaphors for problems of a psychological nature.

Classic psychosomatic illnesses include: essential hypertension, asthma, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, peptic ulcer, neurodermatitis. Today, this list has expanded significantly, since psychological problems can even lead to oncology. Psychosomatic illnesses also include functional disorders, for example, arrhythmia, conversion syndromes (psychogenic blindness, paralysis, deafness).

It is known that the causes of psychosomatic diseases and their treatment are interdependent, since the corrective effect should be aimed specifically at the factor that provoked the illness.

Among the reasons that give rise to psychosomatic disorders, of great importance is the confrontation that occurs within the individual, alexithymia (a disorder expressed in the inability to recognize and formulate one’s own feelings in words), the inability to detect in an acceptable way, the inability to defend one’s own interests, and secondary self-interest from the illness.

The most common reasons that provoke the onset of psychosomatic diseases are experienced traumas and stressors. This may include disasters suffered, military actions, the loss of a loved one and other difficult everyday situations that can affect the state of the individual’s psyche.

Internal contradictions that cause psychosomatic illnesses include depressive moods, anger, feelings of guilt.

If you thoroughly analyze the factors listed above, you can deduce the following reasons underlying the type of ailment under consideration.

First of all, psychosomatic manifestations cause ever-present emotional tension and chronic stress, which is considered the basis of all human ailments. Residents of megacities are most susceptible to stressors. In principle, the existence of every individual of working age is associated with stress.

Misunderstandings among colleagues, confrontation with superiors, feuds in the family, confrontation with neighbors - all this gives rise to a feeling of fatigue, weakness and dissatisfaction. Stressors also include traffic in megacities, as a result of which people are late for rendezvous, work, they are constantly short of time, they exist in a hurry and information overload. Lack of sleep further tightens the picture, leading to the breakdown of the body due to sustained stress.

At the same time, it is impossible to exist in the 21st century without the factors listed above. Here you need to understand that there is nothing particularly deadly about stress. Stress is a state when the body is in “combat readiness” in order to repel an attack from the outside.

However, the stress-induced state should be activated as an emergency mode in case of emergency. The problem arises when such a mode is turned on too often and sometimes regardless of the subject’s wishes. Therefore, if the system is constantly triggered by an absolute “combat readiness” trigger, then soon the functioning of such a system will be disrupted, that is, the body will be depleted, a failure will occur, which will be expressed in psychosomatic manifestations.

Doctors say that with sustained exposure to stressors, the cardiovascular system and organs involved in digestion are primarily affected. Organs that previously had malfunctions may also be affected. Most often, psychosomatics acts according to the proverb that says that where it is thin, it breaks off first. Therefore, if there is any problem in the organ, then due to sustained stress it will come out. Thus, constant “submission” to stressors contributes to the occurrence of somatic illness.

Prolonged experience of intense negative emotions also has a negative impact on human health. Bad emotions have a destructive effect on the body. Particularly destructive emotions include envy, resentment, disappointment, anxiety, and fear. These emotions destroy a person from the inside, gradually wearing out the body.

Negative emotions affect the human body in the same way as stressors. For the body, every felt emotion is a whole event. When an individual experiences something too actively, the following metamorphoses occur in his body: surges in blood pressure, blood circulates more intensely through the capillaries, muscle tone changes, and breathing quickens. However, not all emotional experiences trigger an “emergency” mode in the body.

Today, negative emotions have become an invariable companion of the modern individual. This emotion can arise in relation to the ruling elite, people who live richer, more successful colleagues. The development of this emotion is provoked by news releases, communication with employees, and the Internet.

Thus, psychosomatic diseases causes and treatment are closely related. In order to save a patient from psychosomatic manifestations, a specialist must, first of all, identify the factors in the individual that provoked their occurrence. Often the doctor has to cope with the client’s strongest internal resistance, caused by secondary self-interest from the illness and other reasons unconscious to the patient.

Treatment of psychosomatic diseases

Despite the fact that psychosomatic illnesses are formed against the background of emotional tension or stress, in order to cure them, it is necessary to undergo a series of examinations and visit a specialist, namely: a neurologist, psychotherapist or psychologist.

Therapy for psychosomatic diseases can be carried out on an outpatient or inpatient basis. Inpatient therapy is indicated for acute manifestations of the disease.

Corrective action for the disorders in question is a rather lengthy process that requires the use of a variety of psychotherapy options. At the same time, psychotherapeutic correction does not help in all variations of psychosomatic ailments. There are disorders when psychotherapy is prescribed exclusively along with pharmacopoeial treatment. At the same time, the success of therapy is largely due to the patient’s desire to be cured.

If the subject understands the root cause of the illness that has affected him, then the therapy is much more effective and faster. When the patient is not aware of the factor that gave rise to the physical manifestations of the disease, an experienced specialist tries to determine it, as a result of which it takes more time to achieve the effect.

In cases where patients do not understand the reasons that gave rise to psychosomatic symptoms, or deny the cause of manifestations, the question: how to treat psychosomatic diseases becomes more relevant.

Complex cases are considered to be childhood moral shocks that have transformed over the years into physical ailments. They require long-term therapy.

In addition, it is necessary to clarify that treatment measures are based on the principle of an individual approach. Thus, for two subjects who suffered from similar stressful situations that gave rise to the disease, different therapeutic courses are prescribed.

The doctor selects the necessary range of therapy methods. Sometimes methods may change during the course of correctional treatment, since the chosen method is often simply not suitable for the patient. When choosing a treatment method, the nature of the patient, stage, degree and classification of the disease must be taken into account.

Of the psychotherapeutic techniques, the following types of psychotherapy are most often used, namely: family, revealing, individual, supportive, group, educational, homogeneous, etc. Hypnotechniques can also be used. If a psychosomatic illness affects a child, then methods are used.

Treatment of psychosomatic illnesses is impossible without the desire of the patient. Simply put, it is impossible to forcibly cure a person of the described type of illness. Therefore, every human subject who suspects the presence of an illness caused by mental problems must understand that the effect of treatment is determined, first of all, by the desire of the individual himself to free himself from the illness that has affected him. There are often cases when an individual becomes so close to his own illness that it becomes a part of his character. As a result, most subjects exhibit “fear of novelty syndrome.” The individual does not want to cure the disease, because he can no longer exist without it. In addition, individual patients take advantage of their own condition, and their external desire to overcome the disease is only a demonstrative “performance” and has nothing to do with a genuine desire to get rid of painful symptoms.

Here, the only possible method of corrective action is psychotherapy for psychosomatic disorders. Such a person will never cope with his own disorders on his own, since there is either no real hope or belief in success. A qualified psychotherapist, through a set of various methods, is able to find the “foundation” of the problematic situation that gave rise to the disease and show the patient the advantage of getting rid of the disease. An experienced therapist will extract the root cause of the disease from the abyss of the subconscious. It is very important to combine psychotherapeutic effects with pharmacopoeial medicine.

Prevention of psychosomatic diseases

The fact is obvious to all specialists that most of the ailments with which human subjects pass through their entire individual existence are laid down in childhood. Quite often, children’s complaints of headaches, especially together with increased fatigue, dream disturbances, dizziness, and excessive sweating, are dismissed by adults as meaningless. Moreover, such complaints can often have serious consequences in the future, sometimes even leading to early disability. Therefore, such painful manifestations require a thorough examination of the baby by a psychiatrist, ophthalmologist, neurologist and medical psychologist. If such a baby, in addition to all of the above, has an additional load, for example, extracurricular activities, sports clubs, music lessons, and this does not evoke positive emotions in the baby, then it is better to limit it.

It is also necessary to pay special attention to the various psychopathic reactions of puberty. For example, changeable personalities need a positive leader (sports activities, hiking trips, visits to various electives). Schizoids are more suitable for activities among their peers, while asthenics are more suitable for active games. Hysterical teenagers should not be singled out from the mass of their peers. In all relevant situations, it is necessary to detect deviant personality traits in children and correct them, developing volitional qualities. In some cases, their pharmacopoeial leveling is justified, since without such intervention, further distortion of personality formation is likely.

Thus, the prevention of psychosomatic disorders in children should begin with the following points:

– nurturing in their parents the ability to create sincere, mutually supportive, respectful and emotionally warm family relationships;

– training adults in adequate methods of education and care;

– creating in children the correct ideas about illnesses and health, teaching the little ones basic analysis of their own experiences and feelings, and the ability to control;

– identifying chronic anxiety states, general discomfort, and internal restlessness in children;

– recognition of the situation of confrontation in which the baby is (in the family, among peers);

– identification of psycho-vegetative syndrome;

– determination of general mental maturity.

Rather than treating psychosomatic disorders and diseases, it is more effective to prevent their onset.

The presence of signs of somatoneurological lability in adulthood often has a very negative impact during work activity when occupational hazards affect. Somatoform disorders are clearly manifested here. Therefore, the prevention of overloads and violations of safety regulations during mental work (room ventilation, breaks, compliance of computer monitors with hygienic standards) deserves special attention here. All kinds of physical activity are the main way to eliminate physiological stress mechanisms. It is possible to pacify an emotional “stress hurricane” with muscle work, as a result of which excess hormones that help maintain emotional overstrain are eliminated. This leads to an increase in the lumen of small capillaries, improves the functioning of the myocardium, equalizes blood pressure, and normalizes the emotional state.

An important method of preventing exposure to stressors is the organization of a rational diet. During periods of exposure to stressors, it is necessary to exclude activators of the nervous system from consumption, for example, caffeine, which is rich in coffee. When under stress, regular nutrition is very important, since disruption of its diet is the main factor that increases the body's response to the effects of a stressor.

Many people mistakenly resort to alcoholic beverages as the main means of eliminating the effects of stress. However, strong drinks can only temporarily alleviate the experience of stress. Alcohol, while mitigating an unpleasant state, simultaneously reduces the individual’s ability to resist. Subsequently, alcohol itself is transformed into a stressor and often serves as the basis for severe stressful conditions due to loss of self-control.

In order not to wonder: how to treat psychosomatic diseases, you must try to get enough sleep, avoid stressful situations, and avoid physical overload and vitamin deficiency. But in addition to the listed activities, you need to strive to find something positive in all sorts of carelessness and failures, try to be charged with positive emotions everywhere. The more carefree thoughts, joyful moments, happy moments, the less space remains in the soul to accommodate ailments.

Preventive measures for psychosomatic abnormalities also include adequate drug therapy and the prevention of iatrogenics - pathological disorders that arise as a result of incorrect medical intervention.

Thus, avoiding exposure to stressors will help avoid collisions with the type of illness described. We must always remember that emotions are subject to the principle of conservation of energy. Therefore, if emotions are not directed according to their destination, they will find a way out on their own. If the adrenaline that enters the blood as a result of anger is not redirected into a cry or muscles, then it will go to the internal structure of the body - to its organs. If the described situation occurs regularly, functional disorders will occur. Therefore, when a person does not have the opportunity to immediately throw out anger or irritation on the subject that gave rise to these emotions, then a treadmill or going to the gym will be an excellent solution.

It is also recommended to try to receive more positive things, abstract from negative aspects, and switch from feelings of resentment to reasonable decisions. We must learn to adequately perceive any physiological anomalies as a “bell” sent by the body, as a reason to think about the need to change one’s own thinking and emotional response.

Those individuals who have previously been diagnosed with a psychosomatic illness are recommended, first of all, to understand and accept the fact that the root cause of the deviation lies beyond the boundaries of the physical body.

People often say that all illnesses are caused by nerves. At the same time, they themselves have no idea how right they are. Emotions are an inseparable component of human existence. To achieve inner harmony, it is necessary to adhere to the optimal combination of various emotional states. Adequate emotional balance is as important as an optimal daily diet.

A daily healthy “diet” for the soul can be calculated as follows:

– positive emotions (happiness, joy, pleasure) – should occupy 35% of daytime;

– emotionally neutral states (surprise, boredom) - 60%;

– a particle of negative emotions (fear, suffering, guilt, anxiety) – should not exceed 5%.