Psychosomatic disorders

Psychosomatic disorders

Nowadays, it is considered that each disease is based on some psycho-emotional aspect. Psychosomatic medicine is suitable for patients and interested parties who wish to improve their physical well-being and solve the emotional factors which cause diseases – raised and remained internal conflicts caused by the disease.

Psychosomatic medicine deals with the interaction role study of body, psychological and social factors of the origin of psycho – somatic diseases and disorders of the human, as well as their course, treatment and prevention.

Psychosomatic medicine pays extra attention to the patient's psyche in parallel with the patient's body during the treatment, as well as to its state and the ongoing process of exploration.

By using psychosomatic treatment approach, it is possible to find answers to the questions why the patient has the particular disease and what to do to heal it and feel better. With a help of psychosomatic medicine, it is also possible to solve the pressing conflicts and situations affecting diseases.

General belief of the psychosomatic medicine is that a person is a single organism, which has to be treated as a whole. Biopsychosocial model of disease origin serves as main postulate, which proves that the following three factors participate in various psychosomatic disorders and the onset of disease:

1. Biological (heredity, physical - chemical irritants, microorganisms, etc.)
2. Psychic (human personality, mood, emotion, etc.)
3. Social (relationships at work, at home, life changes, etc.)

Regardless of the patient's diagnosis and severity of illness, the person who has arranged his own internal (and later also outer) world, is able to reduce the negative effects of somatization or unconscious and / or unresolved internal contradictions on physical health and mood.

Alongside medical treatment, psychosomatic medicine can help in limiting and reducing disease exacerbations and disease severity, as well as the appropriateness of medication treatment dose. Following diseases are considered as classical psychosomatic diseases - diabetes, hypertension, ulcer disease, ulcerative colitis, neurodermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis and coronary heart disease.