Psychosomatics of cystitis in children and adults
Cystitis is an unpleasant inflammatory disease of the bladder, which, according to statistics, more often affects children and women. Very often there are no apparent reasons for the disease and the painful urge to use the toilet appears after a person is very nervous. Therefore, there is such a thing as psychogenic or psychosomatic cystitis.
general information
Cystitis is an inflammation of the bladder. It is believed that the most common cause of the disease is infectious causes - microbes that invade the urinary tract. The cause of inflammation can also be kidney disease and impaired functioning, some problems with hormones, herpes infection, impaired functioning of the nervous system, hypovitaminosis.
Often the disease manifests itself in women during the period of carrying a child, as well as after giving birth. Contribute to the development of the disease hypothermia, reduced immunity.
Cystitis manifests itself with frequent and painful urination, while the amount of urine can be significantly reduced. Rezi when emptying the bladder are pronounced. In the intervals between going to the toilet, there are aching, unpleasant pains in the lower abdomen, in the area of the urethra, the temperature may rise.
When is a disease considered psychosomatic?
A disease that does not have a clearly monitored anatomical or physiological cause is considered psychosomatic. It usually develops with certain psychogenic prerequisites. Wherein urine is not determined by the bacterial or viral component. In recent years, urologists and nephrologists have even a separate term - neurogenic cystitis, that is, inflammation, the symptoms of which develop on nerves. True, experts do not explain exactly what experiences and emotions can cause inflammation of the bladder.
The psychosomatic origin of the disease should be suspected and considered even if the prescribed treatment does not help to get rid of cystitis.in chronic cystitis, especially in women and children, who are more emotional than men.
Most often, such cystitis accompanies very specific events and experiences in a person’s life - one of them starts every time before important exams or delivery of responsible work, the other as a reaction to a family quarrel. If such a pattern is noticed, then it is safe to say that cystitis has psychosomatic causes.
The reasons
Psychosomatics regards body fluids as a symbol of emotions, desires. Blood symbolizes life, the desire to live, the ability to rejoice in this process, saliva - the desire to receive information from the outside, and urine - spent emotions that have become unnecessary and accumulate in the bladder so that as it fills the brain could give the command to empty the bubble all that has accumulated.
In terms of psychosomatics, any problems with urination suggest that the person is trying to hold back old emotions, refuses to easily part with them.
Cystitis usually says that a person subconsciously does not let go of his old, unnecessary emotions, and urinary incontinence (which often accompanies cystitis) as a symptom suggests that a person does not know how to dominate his own emotions.
This explains why the disease is so widespread among women and children, because their emotional world is very rich and sometimes turns out to be "overflowed" with old and already unnecessary experiences.
Psychosomatic medicine, thanks to the work of many psychotherapists and psychoanalysts, has information about the psychological portrait of a patient with chronic neurogenic cystitis. Studies have shown that this people who have high moral principles, and for this reason already they cannot overstep some bans imposed from outside.
Such a character was beautifully described by Stephen King in the Green Mile - the protagonist there, being a very responsible and obligatory and highly moral person, suffered from agonizing attacks of cystitis. , causes streams of words, the purpose of which is to shame.
Women, according to many experts, are more likely to suffer from cystitis from the fact that they have been told since childhood that sexual desires and their manifestations for the weaker sex are embarrassing, indecent.
Cystitis most often affects people who are very vulnerable and vulnerable in all that relate to their success. They are sensitive to criticism, even a simple remark can cause a strong shock, which is almost always accompanied by an aggravation of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the bladder.
They hardly know how to smile at their own shortcomings, to joke about this topic. Especially often cystitis is aggravated before events in which a person needs to show independence, the ability to look critically at himselfFor example, before important competitions, before exams, before the birth of a child.
In pregnant women, cystitis is very often associated with another psychological nuance - the loss of sexual attractiveness for the opposite sex. A woman with a big belly does not always cause sexual desires even from her husband, let alone other representatives of the stronger sex. A woman “in position” feels clumsy, unwelcome, and it is this that triggers in her the mechanism of shame and exposure of her own “shortcomings,” which leads to frequent and very painful urination.
Illness in childhood
Very interesting for psychosomatism children's cystitis. If a child often suffers from an illness and doctors only throw up their hands, writing out another useless treatment that will help for a short time, it is important to assess who of the adults is engaged in raising a baby. The person who plays the leading role in this can humiliate and constantly shame the child, trying to get him to obey (“do not shout, do not run, shame on you!”, “I am very ashamed of your behavior”). The desire of a parent or grandmother to make a good conscientious person out of a boy is clear, but everyone forget about the fact that a child has his own desire.
Most children who are registered with a urologist or nephrologist grow up in families where much attention is paid to their upbringing.. The little ones are not left to themselves, they have highly moral grandmothers or parents who do not tire of teaching the child constantly, how and what to do and what not to do, because it is “embarrassing”.
What happens to the baby? He believes adults. He quickly takes everything at face value and begins to actually feel guilty, ashamed of himself, his desires, his disobedience and actions. His involuntary mistakes close the vicious painful circle and the feeling of shame becomes almost natural.
The only way to interrupt the chain of neurogenic cystitis in this case is to protect the child from such caregivers if they themselves do not want to accept and understand that they are “going too far”.
Opinion researchers
Many authors relate to the topic of cystitis. So, the psychotherapist Valery Sinelnikov, a person respected in psychosomatics, is sure that almost always psychogenic cystitis causes a feeling of false shame. If you convince a person that he should not be ashamed of his thoughts, desires, emotions, then there will be no trace of the disease.
Louise Hay and Liz Burbo, who made the tables of psychosomatic causes of ailments, are sure that the cause of cystitis is the accumulated irritation that a person cannot express and express because of external pressure.. The psychology of the disease is such that anger, according to the researchers, is always the case, but it can have different forms and manifestations.
Thus, cystitis with blood usually indicates that a person is irritated with life and to someone from relatives, family members, and pus in the urine speaks of an old and old offense that does not leave.
Treatment
The most important step in the treatment of neurogenic cystitis is the acquisition of self-confidence and the understanding that there are no shameful or ugly desires. If a person has any thoughts, which he starts to be painfully ashamed of, it is important to find out why this is happening - is it a child's installation instilled by parents, or are there other reasons.
People with chronic cystitis are important not to allow themselves to be manipulated.. Every time they are tried to be ruled, appealing to their shame and conscience, it is worthwhile to step aside and not do what they demand, just because someone has artificially created this shame for you. Leave the right to decide for yourself, make decisions, take responsibility for them, enjoy the decision-making process, even if they, according to someone, should cause you to have a fit of burning bashfulness. Must, but not at all obliged.
Women with frequent cystitis problems should visit a psychologist or sexologist. Usually, they find many reasons for which there are difficulties in personal intimate life, which are important to eliminate in order to raise their own self-esteem.
Separately, I want to say about children's cystitis.
While the child is being pressured and crying out to his conscience, every time he tries to do something that the elders do not understand, the problem will be insoluble. It is parents or grandmother who need to go to a psychologist, because starting a baby’s treatment should be done by correcting the educational measures they routinely use.
The older the child, the more difficult it can be to treat protracted chronic cystitis, because the destructive attitudes have already penetrated deep into the subconscious. In any case, you need to teach the child to relax, stop blaming himself for what he, in fact, did not even commit.
At any age, to get rid of the disease, it is important to learn not to feel sorry for old emotions, not to hold insults and anger - let it all go easily and easily, without accumulating to a state in which spent thoughts will irritate the bladder mucosa. In order to get rid of them in time and correctly, It is necessary to engage in active sports, swim and walk, run, box, do everything that helps get rid of unpleasant memories, replace them with positive feelings.
If the true cause can be found and eliminated, episodes of cystitis will become rare, and then they will stop altogether.
