In the treatment of concomitant phobic ...

In the treatment of concomitant phobic symptoms using behavioral therapy techniques (progressive relaxation, immersion in a graded stimuli, and air conditioning technics stop thoughts). You should avoid delaying the course of psychosocial interventions in order to avoid the formation of a secondary effect of the benefits of disease.

The concept of psychosomatic medicine. Psychosomatic diseases and their treatment

The therapist understands psychosomatics diseases of internal organs and systems arising from the impact of mental or emotional factors. As they say, are those diseases that appear "because of nerves." most famous ones are: bronchial asthma, peptic ulcer and 12perstnoy intestine, ulcerative colitis, hypertension, migraine, diabetes, thyrotoxicosis, rheumatoid arthritis, urticaria, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, many sexual disorders, and menstrual irregularities in women, menopause and more. Despite the fact that all These diseases are different, the psychologist finds in them a number of common characteristics. 1. Getting the disease is provoked by mental factors (trauma, motsionalny stress, neurosis), which action may be short-lived (the death of a loved one, depression), rather long (the conflict in the family, at work, illness of a loved person) or chronic (presence of intractable problems because of personal characteristics, the complex is not complete, values, malformations). 2. Not only the onset of the disease is associated with a stressful situation, but any aggravation or recurrence of the disease. 3. The course of the disease to some extent depends on the sex and stage of puberty. For example, bronchial asthma before puberty to 2 times more common in boys than in girls, whereas in more mature age - more common in women than in men. Chronic urticaria and thyrotoxicosis are more common for women, and coronary heart disease and hypertension - for men. 4. Psychosomatic disorders commonly occur and their acute phase in varying degrees, are seasonal in nature. For example, autumn-spring exacerbation characterized by ulcers of the stomach and duodenum and in psoriasis produce summer and winter form. 5. psychosomatic diseases occur in individuals with a genetic predisposition and constitutional. Practitioners, this fact is well known. The heredity of hypertension is to be "hypertensive", peptic ulcer disease - lady's finger. "One the same emotional stress causes in different people have different reactions and disease. This difference is not only a genetic predisposition to certain diseases, but also the characterological features. If the person quick-tempered, excitable, prone to aggressive reactions and forced them back usually increases blood pressure, then a man shy, impressionable, with an inferiority complex - ulcerative colitis.