Stomach – an organ that performs not only the function of digesting food, it also helps us to “digest” different life situations, survive problems.
For a person, food is a means of filling the body with energy, when someone refuses the help of others and is not able to draw energy from other sources, an unmet need is compensated by a large amount of food consumed, which results in gastritis or an ulcer.
These diseases – only a part of the possible dangers that can be encountered due to inner experiences. Find out in the article about the psychosomatics of stomach diseases.
Even if the mental health of a person is normal, each individual has certain character traits, habits and way of life. The latter can tell the specialist which diseases are more likely to disturb this or that patient.
Psychosomatics of stomach diseases
Pain in the stomach is provoked not only by malnutrition, often they are of a psychological nature. So, according to experts, stomach ulcers are mostly caused by psychological causes.
When a person finds himself in a difficult life situation and feels that he cannot find a way out of the current situation, this can result in malaise.
Another psychosomatic reason stomach diseases is the lack of support. When a person feels the need for communication, but he fails to fill the spiritual emptiness, food in large quantities comes to the rescue. As a result, an abundant and unhealthy diet provokes the development of gastritis or ulcers.
When the stomach hurts, psychosomatics is often the main component of this problem. Judge for yourself, it’s not in vain that before a responsible event “sucks in the stomach” and ”constricts the stomach”. In this way, the body demonstrates its reaction to a strong emotion held back by a person (excitement, fear, etc.).
Psychosomatics: what diseases arise due to experiences
Psychosomatics of the diseaseI Gastritis
Often this disease affects people who have been in a state of uncertainty for a long time: they do not see the future and believe that nothing good will happen. Also, gastritis can be triggered by an acute outburst of strong anger, "driven inside." As mentioned above, it is the retention of emotions in oneself that provokes the development of various diseases.
Usually, the disease manifests itself some time after the event that caused the inner distress.
Heartburn usually torments people who suppress aggression or feel fear of something. For example, a person realizes that life circumstances are not in his favor, but still tries to convince himself that “everything is fine”.
Psychosomatics of diseases. Ulcer
As for stomach ulcers, in this case, psychosomatics in this case is much more complicated. There are a variety of reasons that provoke the development of this disease, among them:
- envy;
- perfectionism;
- “inferiority complex”
- increased anxiety;
- contradiction between independence and the need for care.
The listed reasons can provoke the development of other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, because if a person leaves his problems unresolved, the stomach is forced to “digest” them.
The help of a psychotherapist is required in such cases:
1. A person regularly experiences problems with sleep for a month, feels depressed, gets tired quickly, while feeling discomfort in the abdomen or other problems of the gastrointestinal tract.
2. The patient is being treated by a specialist gastroenterologist, but as soon as he gets into a stressful situation, the disease returns.
3. A person suffers from a violation of the normal process of digestion – persistent discomfort, pain, bloating, cramps, or diarrhea for no apparent reason.
Thus, among the reasons that cause pain in the stomach, psychosomatics plays an important role, and if discomfort in the stomach constantly bothers you – perhaps you should pay attention to the normalization of your state of mind.
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