What is a Psychosomatic

What is Psychosomatic Illnesses: Psychosomatic diseases are the most important physical causes of physical illness. Although the disease is caused by psychological reasons, it is actually a physical disease.

Recently, it has been proven that there are a number of disorders in the body and physical processes that originate from mental causes. In fact a close relationship exists between the mind and the body. Just as the physical condition affects the mind, so does the mental condition affect the body. Just as a sick body cripples the mind, a sick mind can make the body sick and dull. Man works as an integral unit of body and mind. If any one of the body dwarfs is crippled, it will cripple all the people. This aspect of medical science is called psychosomatic viewpoint.

There are some psychological factors behind any disease. Character traits of the patient, current state of mind, attitudes towards the disease, etc. must play an important role in the development and cure of the disease.

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What Causes Psychosomatic Disorders

Psychologists have blamed childhood emotions for psychosomatic disorders. According to them, various emotional conflicts during childhood are revived in adulthood and cause various psychosomatic diseases. The urge for love and dependence is created in the child during childhood and this need is related to food intake. But as the child gets older, he feels the urge to overcome dependence and become self-reliant.

Because adults need to be aware of the value of their behavior. As a result, there is a conflict between the urge to depend on him and the urge to be self-reliant in his childhood. Naturally, this conflict is suppressed and goes to the unconscious level of the mind. But when a person is under pressure during adolescence, that latent conflict is revived. Since this conflict is related to the process of food intake, this resurgent conflict puts pressure on the digestive process and causes disease in many more digestive tracts, including peptic ulcer.

Disruption of the activity of various organs of the body: Psychosomatic disease arises only when the control of physical activity is lost. The brain is the main factor of the body. That is, the brain is the dominant organ of the body which controls all the functions of the body. The brain constantly regulates itself and under it controls the functions of all the organs such as: - muscles, bones, glands etc.

When this control of the brain is defective, the functioning organs of the body become more active or less active. As a result, the corresponding organ is damaged due to defective function. Thus psychosomatic diseases arise as a result of brain irregularities or lack of control.

Social attitudes are the last reason: Some changes in life lead to the urge for new social adaptations. Since these changes in life in the context of the social environment necessitate new adaptations, it can be termed as the social factor of the past. Changes in life include death of spouse, divorce, separation of couple, occupation, promotion, change of profession, dismissal, illness, imprisonment etc. Different types of changes require new social adaptation. Which causes extreme stress in the person. Recent events in a person's life serve as a life-changing unit. As a result, the chances of a person developing a serious psychosomatic disease within the next two years are about 80 percent. It can be seen that positive and pleasant events like job gain, promotion, marriage, child birth etc. also create the need for new adaptations and these give rise to the type of stress of choice.

However, the level of oppression of the events that take place in life varies depending on the society and culture. For example, in American society, the birth of a child puts a lot of pressure on the family, but in Chinese society it does not put much pressure at all. Again, the amount of oppression that Chinese society causes is not so much oppression in American society.

From this it can be seen that the extent of oppression arising out of the events that take place in a person's life largely depends on the prevailing attitudes and values in that society. Thus, the social environment also plays an important role in the development of psychosomatic diseases.

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Educational Reasons: Psychosomatic disease originates from the physiological response to synonymous stress. It has recently been shown that the body's automatic functions, such as breathing, blood pressure, or brain waves, are affected by learning. Through training in organic return messages the individual can realize his or her automated responses and in many cases control them.

That is, they are changed through teaching. Thus the effect of differential bullying achieves certain automated responses. The automated responses that benefit the individual become permanent within the individual. As a result, the individual responds to a particular type of spontaneous response to stressful situations. This results in disorders of the corpus callosum. If any child is aware of the unpleasant act of going to school due to abdominal pain. However, in the future, in any unpleasant situation, the automatic functions of the baby's stomach will increase.

This means that there will be an increase in the automatic functions such as acid leakage, flatulence, abdominal discomfort, and pain, and if such incidents occur frequently, stomach ulcers will occur. Many times such incidents give rise to a vicious cycle. In other words, once the onset of psychosomatic disease, the disease becomes more serious.

As soon as an ulcer starts in the abdomen, it creates an uncomfortable sensation and this uncomfortable sensation makes the person more emotional. Hey emotion causes more acid secretion in the stomach and more stomach ulcers.

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Due to stressful situations: Psychosomatic diseases occur due to stressful situations. As soon as any stress, such as conflict, frustration, stress, etc., becomes somewhat permanent, the person's general adaptive symptoms gradually pass through three types of conditions.

The first stage is called alert stage and energy gathering stage. In the face of stress, the person develops a state of alertness and is prepared to the highest level of his psychosomatic powers. The person's level of physiological functions such as blood pressure, respiration, secretion of adrenaline, secretion of digestive juices, etc. increases and he becomes emotionally stimulated. Such a situation helps the person to deal with danger.

The second condition is the resistance stage. The highly active state that arises in a person in the face of a crisis is supposed to gradually stagnate through a process contrary to the normal course of the body, and to create a pre-existing condition in the body. In this way the body maintains its own balance. But in the face of continued oppression, resistance builds up against this normal rule, and the individual adapts himself to a state of high-action stimulation. The body continues to expend high levels of psychosomatic energy for this resistance.

The third stage is called exhausted and devastated stage. At this stage the person's energy reserves are depleted. The person is absolutely devastated. As a result, the body tissue of any internal organ is damaged and the person suffers from psychosomatic disease. If the persecution continues, the person may become completely paralyzed or even die.

A particular part of the body is weak, but in the face of oppression, that weak part easily becomes diseased. Such physical weakness can be due to various reasons. Any previous injury or disease can weaken a particular organ. Again, a particular organ may be weak due to a birth defect or due to heredity. Some psychosomatic diseases are seen to be hereditary. If a particular organ is weakened due to genetic reasons, that organ is easily damaged in the face of stress.

There are also differences from person to person in the case of automated responses. Different people react differently during emotions. The more frequent the reaction, the more easily the organ involved in the reaction is damaged. This difference in response from person to person is due to congenital causes.

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Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorder

The application of conventional physiotherapy and medicine is not particularly effective in curing psychosomatic diseases. Because the mental conflicts, frustrations or anxieties that are at the root of the disease are not treated physically. This is because the damage done to the patient's body due to chronic psychiatric illness cannot be removed without physical treatment. Thus the physiological and psychological treatment process needs to be applied simultaneously for the cure of psychosomatic diseases.

In such cases, the basic purpose of psychotherapy is to unravel the patient's insights into the psychological aspects of the disease. As a result, the patient can realize his problem and solve the problem by adopting effective methods. Psychiatry can be used to unravel the patient's insights and resolve conflicts, frustrations, and anxieties. Of course, in many cases such diseases are not cured just by imparting knowledge. It has recently been shown that behavioral therapy is more effective. Anxiety can also be treated successfully by applying systematic desensitization techniques to treat various ailments including peptic ulcer, asthma, migraine headache, dermatitis.

There are also many benefits to applying organic return message training techniques. If a person constantly receives instant feedback about automated responses, the individual can learn to control and manage much of his or her automated responses.

It is also possible to cure psychosomatic diseases by applying relaxation methods. Physical relaxation alleviates anxiety and when anxiety is removed spontaneously relieves many psychosomatic diseases. The patient can be trained to do physical relaxation. In some cases relaxation can be caused in the patient by using medication or applying anesthesia.