Psychological Causes Of Disease

2024 Author: Rachel Wainwright | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 07:39

The fact that most diseases have psychological roots was said by physiologists at the beginning of the 19th century, and perhaps even earlier. There is no special secret in this - the psyche is directly connected with the nervous system, and the nervous system controls all processes in the body. Some researchers believe that the psychological causes of diseases are more significant in the mechanism of disease occurrence than, for example, a bacterial infection.

This point of view is not without foundation. The fact is that the body's defenses, called immunity, in some people successfully cope with the infection even during mass epidemics, while in others they are so weak that a person picks up literally any infection, it is enough just to sneeze in his presence. What does this mysterious immunity depend on?

Even in the Middle Ages, practicing doctors noted a person's susceptibility to a particular disease, depending on his character traits, and it is from them that a psychological portrait is formed. Even now, we do not hesitate to use definitions such as "gall person" or "stinging person". At the same time, bilious and stinging people, oddly enough, are really more prone to diseases of the digestive tract, including gallstone disease and stomach ulcers, although defining their nature, we mean rather their relationship with others. An experienced physician, at one glance at a person, can determine which particular psychological causes of diseases served their development.

This topic is still waiting for its researchers, although the first signs are already there. For example, Valery Sinelnikov, the author of the book "Love thy disease," believes that he has established reliably the psychological causes of diseases. So, according to his theory, diseases of the reproductive sphere indicate a lack of understanding with a partner, eye diseases - about an unfavorable environment around the patient, because of which he does not want to see his surroundings, and so on. I must say that in many cases psychological assistance is effective not only for patients with psychological, but also somatic problems, which confirms this point of view.

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