Somatic diseases can be accompanied by more or less serious mental disorders. In the treatment of bodily diseases, doctors most often encounter asthenic syndrome. Although there are many cases of various kinds of neuroses, psychopathic states, changes in consciousness and delusional obsessions.
1. Possible mental abnormalities during pregnancy and after childbirth
A severe pregnancy, depleting the future mother’s nervous system, is sometimes accompanied by depressive conditions, weighed down by suicidal syndrome. The occurrence of a mental disorder is associated with an additional load (due to fetal development) on the hypothalamus and endocrine system.
After childbirth, mental disorders can develop against the background of a woman’s greatly weakened adaptive ability to abrupt life changes. In this case, patients complain of poor relations with her husband, unsatisfactory living conditions and many other factors of their irritability. Psychotherapeutic methods help stop fear for a child’s health, panic, confusion, chronic fatigue and delusional states.
2. Influenza
Somatic diseases in the influenza state caused by type A virus give complications in the form of asthenic symptoms, changes in consciousness, psychosis. The high-risk group includes people with chronic hypertension and atherosclerosis, whose vascular walls are weakened. At the beginning of the disease, patients feel weak and broken, complain of sharp pain in the temple area and in the back of the head. At the peak of the development of influenza, there are manifestations of psychosis that smoothly turn into a disorder of consciousness in a few days. Treatment is carried out taking into account the general exhaustion of the body. Actions are being taken to prevent somatic complications. Psychopathological syndrome stops.
3. Neoplasms
Somatic oncological diseases are accompanied by asthenic syndrome even before a diagnosis is established. Man is possessed by fear that his terrible suspicions will be confirmed, so a lot of precious time is wasted. After diagnosis, the tension of the nervous system reaches such a high level that psychogenic symptoms begin to dominate in the patient's condition. Somatic diseases associated with neoplasms are sometimes complicated by the fact that the patient does not believe in the diagnosis. The treatment is difficult due to the hostile attitude towards the doctor and medical staff. Depressive reactions can drag on for a long time, alternating with suicidal attempts. The chronic pain syndrome characteristic of the terminal stage of the disease is exacerbated by fear and horror of the future. Psychotherapy is the basis of treatment, activities are supported by antidepressants and tranquilizers.
4. Postoperative psychoses
Psychosomatic syndrome in the postoperative period is more common in elderly people and in women who have survived the operation to remove reproductive organs. Depressive syndrome is observed in the first week after surgery. A special risk group for the development of mental disorders is those people who have cataracts removed or have performed other operations related to vision. In these cases, visual hallucinations can occur with relatively clear human consciousness.
5. Renal failure
Psychosomatic causes of diseases that arise against the background of renal failure, are common in medical practice. Typical are asthenic symptoms with severe fatigue, unstable moods, loss of self-control. Irritability is closely combined with insomnia. The patient's condition is complicated by increasing intoxication of the body. The occurrence of hallucinations in renal failure is a serious signal about the need for a hemodialysis procedure.