2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
We all visited a therapist or other specialist and more than once heard advice such as: "Do not be nervous", "Relax", "Do not worry about trifles" … And of course, no one really follows these advice, and sometimes it is difficult to follow directions when everywhere such an uncontrolled hell, forcing to involuntarily turn to experiences. And here comes the brave specialists working in psychosomatic medicine, it is not so much a diagnostic layer as psychotherapeutic. Usually, a psychotherapist starts working with psychosomatics only after a specialist in conventional, well-known somatic medicine. Of course, it is best when these specialists work collegially.
Let's recall the main pathological forms that are classified as psychosomatic.
I will give the championship, perhaps, to headaches. According to statistics, it is believed that about 80% of the world's population at least once a year experience psychogenic headaches and tension headaches (associated with the contraction of the neck muscles for a long time). In addition to headaches, psychosomatics includes many forms of chronic pain.
Anorexia of a nervous nature or mental is also a frequent visitor of the psychosomatic spectrum. It represents a restriction in food intake or even a complete refusal to eat. Symptomatically, you can distinguish an altered perception of your body, as well as a significant, sometimes life-threatening decrease in MT.
Psychosomatic disorders also include hyperthyroidism, which is a disruption of the endocrine system, allergic disorders, and autoimmune processes. Coronary artery disease, arterial hypertension, heart failure, fainting, arrhythmia and psychogenic heart complaints in the absence of diseases of the cardiovascular system were also noticed more than once. And many others (if interested, I can make a plate).
I consider it very important to say what many omit in texts about psychosomatics, namely that diagnosis and differential diagnosis is the work of specialists in somatic medicine and it is of paramount importance to refer to them. The tasks of a psychotherapist here are only of a psychotherapeutic nature, apart from, of course, somatoform disorders, this is already a layer of a psychotherapist trained in the field of psychiatry.
The disorders I listed, although very similar to serious somatic diseases, at the same time demonstrate the absence of an organic factor.
If you, dear readers, will like this topic, I will continue the story. Perhaps, in future publications I will touch upon self-induced disorder, hypersomnia, coronary diseases, etc. in a more open form, giving each sore sufficient time.
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