The cries of help of the mind can be reflected in a person’s body, especially in times of stress either anxiety. LA appearance of these physical symptoms is due to a lack of psychological and emotional attentionwhich generates psychosomatic diseases as alert mechanism.
Psychosomatic disorders can be understood as small warnings in the form of physical manifestations emitted by the brain in the face of unresolved emotional problems.
Psychology explains that Psychosomatic diseases appear before a stress overload either anxiety In the bodywhich is caused by an over -innovation of a problem or the lack of expression of an emotion lived in a difficult situation.
People with psychosomatic disorders They tend to develop ailments such as gastritis, flu, cardiac arrhythmias or low pressure as a result of their emotional state. That is, they physically channel their emotional discomfort.
Unbalance between the body and the mind
Psychosomatic disorder can be defined as a imbalance between the body and the mind. That is, the person presents a physical illness caused by an emotional problem, explains Mayra Velázquez, forensic psychologist and clinical counselor.
Psychosomatic conditions They have as the main factor the lack of psychological attention of the individual, added to problems of emotional expression. Velázquez comments that these psychological problems can generate a disease in the body or exacerbate existing conditions.
For example, psychosomatic conditions canAusar health problems such as allergies, nerve tics, episodic cardiac arrhythmias or irritable colon syndrome. In addition, they could aggravate diseases such as nervous gastritis and derive in gastric ulcers.
Nervous gastritis has a psychological root and It is a consequence of an overload of stress and anxiety. Therefore, it requires multidisciplinary attention from the medical and psychological approach, Velázquez details.
The expert recommends that The approach must be doctor and psychologicalbecause not treating one of these areas, patients may not present progress. That is, medicine may not have the desired effect if the psychological is not treated, or vice versa.
The body as an emotional map
Psychosomatic diseases They are generated because the mind (emotions) is directly connected with the physical state (health) of the peopleClarifies Estuardo Rojas, internist doctor. Therefore, the alteration of one of these two areas affects the other.
Psychological processes such as depression, anxiety or stress overload They can cause specific reactions in the body.
Rojas explains that the body works as a map of emotions and psychological state. When a person has a problem or concern, he usually reflects it in headaches. Similarly, when someone gets angry, it tends to suffer from nerve tics or abdominal pain, due to the need of the body to express their discomfort.
The doctor comments that diseases Psychosomatic are produced by two specific factors: the genetic and experiences of the individual in its work, social and family environment.
“There are people who get to have anxiety pictures or panic attacks (…) the genetics and the environment in which they have grown have made them vulnerable, in some cases, to have a greater probability of suffering them and presenting the symptoms with the naked eye,” says Rojas.
Its root is anxiety
Psychosomatic diseases originate from the anxiety and the effects of overuse in the individual, explains Ximena Molina, clinical psychologist.
The expert details that anxiety is an emotion that should alert a person when in danger, and that it must be presented momentarily. However, some people tend to maintain their problems in mind, lor that generates mental stress and, consequently, a physical reaction that manifests itself in the form of a disease.
Molina comments that, from the psychological point of view, psychosomatic diseases can be translated as a cluster of unpasted emotions or decisions not taken. This paralyzes the person and makes his body look for other ways to channel emotions, which translates into a physical illness.
The expert advises address these cases from therapy and medicine, Since drugs and medical control are concentrated in treating the disease, while psychological therapy helps address causes, to face the triggers and to handle current problems.
Symptoms or psychosomatic diseases
There are certain symptoms and diseases related to psychophysiological disorders that could emit an alert in the face of an overload of stress and anxiety, says Rojas and Molina.
Rojas points out that one of the clearest evidence of psychosomatic diseases is when a person It maintains a prolonged period disease, when drugs fail to relieve their ailments or when the symptoms disappear after emotional relief.
Ximena Molina emphasizes that the body sends messages about mental health and that symptoms such as constant headaches and without clinical explanation can be generated by the anxiety of thinking too much about an action or decision.
Allergy or skin diseases are related in the field of psychology with the rejection of a decision that affects the individual and with the anxiety of facing something unwanted.
“Our first shock organ against the world is the skin, so it is easy to understand why my shield, which is the skin, reacts to something that I do not like,” adds Molina.
Repressed anger, according to Molina, can cause irritable colon, nerve gastritis, gastric ulcers or stomach pains, because people repress those feelings and channel them in the abdominal area.