In the article, we consider the psychosomatics of appendicitis.
In domestic and foreign medicine, psychosomatics arose relatively recently, but its effect on the appearance of diseases is beyond doubt. This phenomenon means that the causes of diseases are determined not only by physiological factors, but also by emotional ones. Acute appendicitis is a pathology that is often provoked by psychological disorders.
Causes
Our emotions are a natural reaction to internal and external circumstances. Staying in a state of prolonged stress, the human body spends internal resources and gradually depletes them. As a result, people can no longer feel whole, do not live fully and do not see pleasure in the world around them. Emotional exhaustion develops into physiological. Negative emotions are especially harmful to the body.
What explains the psychosomatics of appendicitis in an adult?
Mental blocking
This happens when a person is not able to notice the positive moments of life. This condition is similar to depression, when only the negative is perceived, and people subconsciously accumulate negative energy, all life focuses only on the physiological needs of the body.
Anger
This emotion accompanies a person every day. The negative effect of anger lies in the regular forced suppression, although such a state, like any other, is quite natural. Restraining anger is like a steam boiler, where steam has not vented for a long time, and growing pressure is bursting inside.
Fear
In this case, we have in mind the fear of contact with the outside world. This is typical for people with a fear of responsibility, inability to make decisions and a violation of communication skills. Fear gradually clogs the lumen of the appendix.
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What does the psychosomatics of appendicitis suggest?
Personal metaphysical properties that affect the appearance of appendicitis and other diseases can be acquired and congenital. These include:
- Genetic predisposition, if several family members are prone to the same emotional states.
- Alexithymia. This condition is characteristic of people who cannot express the fullness of emotions and feelings.
- Infantility is personal immaturity. Inherent to people who are influenced by, mainly the parent.
- Incredulity and isolation.
- Injuries to the psyche.
- Internal contradictions and conflicts.
Any of these conditions can increase the feeling of hopelessness, which increases stress and leads to inflammation of the appendix.
Opinion of the Enlightenment
The psychosomatics of appendicitis by Louise Hay is also described. The author of the book “Heal Yourself” and the psychologist created a table of diseases, in accordance with which the cause of the pathology and the way to combat it are established. The destructive effects considered by the author testify to the materiality of thoughts and their reflection on human well-being. According to Louise, appendicitis appears due to blocking of positive thoughts and fear.
The solution that contributes to recovery is affirmation, that is, a conviction compiled in a special way, which allows the patient to feel safe and relax completely.
Liz Burbo - a philosopher, psychologist and trainer - believes that the root cause of the disease is hidden in deep blockages. A very striking example is the anger suppressed within, which prevents one from showing dependence on the surrounding opinion and self-doubt. Such a concept puts at the forefront the development of self-knowledge, as well as the ability to listen to your body.
Grigory Semchuk is a popularizer of physiognomy. This is a follower of psychosomatic authorities, the author of the blog “Visual Psychodiagnostics Workshop”. A lot of his studies are devoted to the ability to read signals supplied by the body.
How to treat the psychosomatics of appendicitis?
Treatment for prevention
An effective way to prevent the occurrence of appendicitis is psychotherapy. The ability to manage emotions is the foundation of well-being. That is why the help of both physicians and psychologists during the first attacks will be useful.
In Russia, it is not as popular to turn to a psychologist as in Europe or the USA. The psychotherapist is the last doctor to whom the patient will contact a disease of unknown origin. The determination and treatment of the psychological causes of pathology will require a fundamentally different diagnosis.
Patients in Russian conditions are skeptical of psychotherapy. There is a persistent stereotype that only people with serious mental disorders turn to a psychologist; reluctance to admit the existence of such problems poses a barrier to healing.
Only after seeing the result of treatment with somatic pathologies, patients understand the effectiveness and justification of psychological assistance. The therapist will help with appendicitis attacks:
- Learn to manage your emotions and accept them: anger, anger, irritation. Look for ways to eliminate emotional stress, stop keeping everything inside.
- Establish a list of fears, turn them to your advantage and win.
- Learn to perceive life events positively.
The effectiveness of psychosomatic appendicitis therapy
Psychotherapy with the psychosomatics of appendicitis primarily helps to cope with the fear of pain. The specialist is orderly working on it, establishing the causes of its occurrence and significance in the life of each client. The psychotherapist is powerless to force a person to believe mentally in recovery, but he will help to realize oneself and take the first step to a positive attitude.
The effect of the psychologist, what is it? After the first session, improvement is noted, the effect of the prescribed drugs increases, the exacerbation weakens, and the remission lasts longer. The psychologist helps to learn to work out emotions, without fear and without avoiding difficult situations, overcoming them, overcoming self-doubt and fears, accepting one’s and others’s shortcomings, solving problems from simple to complex ones, not blocking both positive and negative ones for oneself, accepting them as an important and necessary experience in life.
General aspects of health from a psychosomatic point of view
If you do not delve into the position of researchers of psychosomatics, then we can emphasize the main points for a healthy body:
- The ability to relax. All emotions require rest. Everyone should be able to abstract from nervous tension and stress, which negatively affect the nervous system. They do not need to be avoided, you need to learn how to manage them.
- Listen to your feelings. An important aspect of internal balance is understanding oneself. You need to ask yourself questions from time to time:
- Who or what makes me nervous?
- Why is this object or person perceived in this way?
- What causes fear in me?
- What events do I notice more often - good or bad?
- Do negative experiences affect my health?
- Does it not throw a person back, is he not drawn into the past?
- Find a lesson for yourself. Hobbies are an important part of life, regular classes help peace of mind and self-affirmation. Such activities are recommended to devote secluded hours when nothing and no one distracts.
- A person has the ability to judge others by his standards, he is annoyed by what is present in himself. It is similar with life circumstances: anxiety, fear, anger are accumulating, a situation appears that further inflames such emotions. Joyful emotions allow you to look at a positive angle at this world.
If the manifestations of psychosomatics still affected the human body and became the cause of the disease, you need to pay attention to the signs of inflammation, which can not be ignored:
- Abdominal pain (may not be on the right).
- Diarrhea or constipation.
- Vomiting and nausea.
- Fever to 40 degrees and shortness of breath.
If these symptoms occur, seek medical attention immediately. Only the integrated work of psychotherapists and physicians contributes to well-being and full recovery.
Psychosomatics of appendicitis in children: opinion of Dr. Sinelnikov
According to Dr. Sinelnikov, appendicitis appears as a result of a person being in a state of fear, a torn psyche, overwork and / or tension. In general, the appendix is an organ of mental intestinal defense. And with an overstrain of the intestine, this energy is discharged into it, slowly burning there.
Why is appendicitis often in children? Because parents pester them, forbid something. Children can have a stable psyche, and they act in their own way. But it happens that they obey, while feeling injustice inside and accumulating negative energy. The result is inflammation of the appendicitis. Sinelnikov pays much attention to the psychosomatics.
Since three years in the body, mental energy has been moving very actively. The child learns life in the process of movement. Since parents have a different level of knowledge, they don’t understand that by jumping and running, children learn the world. With the introduction of restrictions at this time, the kids suffer greatly mentally. They can even get sick. Appendicitis is just provoked by limited movement.
We examined the psychosomatics of appendicitis in a child.