Psychologist Lyubov Trofimova told how to recognize psychosomatics
Not all of our illnesses are clearly manifested in the body and can be cured with the help of drug treatment.
Lyubov Trofimova , a psychologist who works with the subconscious and body, told how to recognize psychosomatics.
Some of them have settled in the subcortex of the subconscious and can only be worked through through a psychological approach and finding out the reason that serves as a trigger for their manifestation.
Such diseases are classified as psychosomatic, and we will find out how to distinguish them from ordinary diseases in our body.
Psychosomatic diseases manifest themselves in our body quite clearly, they can often be confused with flu, colds, allergies and other diseases.
However, when taking tests or visiting a doctor, the symptoms may not be confirmed at the cellular level, although all the obvious signs of malaise will be present.
In this case, drug medicine is completely powerless, because the root of the problem is in the person’s subconscious.
How can you distinguish psychosomatics from a common disease?
- Pay attention to periods when symptoms worsen or disappear. Psychosomatic diseases occur during periods of severe stress or anxiety, which is a kind of signal for a person that something is wrong.
- The semantic content of psychosomatic symptoms before important events or in connection with a strong internal conflict: occurs when a person is very worried or resists something new, does not agree with something.
At the body level, this can be expressed from a sudden increase in temperature to a sharp pain in the throat, similar to a sore throat. That is, the symptoms in this case become the best excuse for avoiding the disturbing situation. - Psychological tension or internal conflict. Psychosomatics is the very switch of attention to what is happening inside.
At first, this may manifest itself in the form of background anxiety, then psychological exhaustion (poor sleep, etc.), and then progressively worse until the person becomes concerned about his internal state.
If you take care of your quality of life and psychological balance, you are the least susceptible to this disease.
On the other hand, if you have increased emotional excitability and you experience positive emotions very vividly, there is a high risk that your body and organism will also react strongly to negative ones.
Especially if you tend to hide negative emotions, pretending that they do not exist. Here the best prevention will be to track all your emotions and experience them: tears, laughter, anger, etc.
Most often, strong emotions are well processed in the context of sports, like an adrenaline rush.
In addition, if your emotions are easily reflected on the body: rash, redness, slight itching, headaches, dizziness, etc., then you have a fairly high predisposition to psychosomatics. You can understand this if you pay attention to how your body behaves in different situations.
One woman's psychosomatics manifested itself in an allergy to animals: wherever she went, she would either sneeze or scratch herself very badly. During the 3 meetings, we found out that the root of the problem was hidden in her childhood and the desire for her parents to pay more attention to her.
And their domestic cat served as the activator of the problem, since the psyche chose the shortest path in the search for the creation of a “disease.” Moreover, the active phase of the allergy arose during periods of family conflicts and became sluggish when the atmosphere in the family became peaceful.
Psychosomatics is not a disease or an acute problem. You need to work with it and perceive it as hints from the body that you are not fully experiencing a situation or are holding on to it too much.
Pay attention to how you feel and try to approach it from the point of view of researchers: sometimes behind a small problem there is a huge amount of awareness and benefit that will help prevent serious consequences.
