Psychosomatic causes of eczema in children and adults

Eczema is a skin disease that was known two centuries before our era. And until now, doctors and scientists are trying to understand why and how it develops in children and adults.

Eczema is a dermatological disease that is not contagious. It may be acute or be a chronic pathology. Manifested in the form of a different rash in the areas of inflammation of the skin. The rash is accompanied by itching, sometimes quite severe. Once appeared eczema is prone to relapse, that is, with a confluence of adverse circumstances, it appears again.

The issue of eczema is one of the most controversial in medicine. Any medical directory treats it as a mechanical, chemical and thermal, as well as an internal process. It is believed that hypothermia and overheating, exposure to chemicals on the skin, skin trauma, and diseases of the liver, kidneys, stomach, hormonal disturbances and diseases of the nervous system can cause inflammation.

The main, according to the general opinion, is the factor of the nervous system, as well as its connection with immune disorders. In essence, this means that traditional medicine is not able to give a clear explanation of the causes of eczema. When it is impossible to explain, the nervous system and immunity are blamed for everything, therefore encyclopedic editions called eczema polyetiological ailment, which again does not clarify where the inflammation of the skin comes from and how.

Psychosomatics treats diseases in a complex, from the point of view of physiology and anatomical features, as well as in connection with the psychological state of the patient. It is believed that many diseases, people create themselves with certain attitudes, behavior and emotions. Relationships are studied by psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, and clinical psychologists. From the point of view of psychosomatics and traditional evidence-based medicine, the skin of the person is a defense. They protect the body from the adverse effects of the external environment, microbes, viruses, pathogens. And it is quite clear that the condition of the skin is influenced not only by the external environment, but also by the diseases of the internal organs that a person has.

Psychosomatic medicine claims that eczema in most cases has a psychogenic origin and appears mainly when a person has severe and unresolved internal conflicts. Foci of inflammation in the arms and legs appear when these internal conflicts are closely linked with the outside world.

The disease usually develops after severe stress.. Some kind of negative event simply releases an internal conflict that goes out through the skin, causing an inflammatory process. The loss of a loved one, the loss of something very personal, important to a person, the collapse of life plans - such events are only the starting mechanism, which gives the doctors grounds to inform the patient about the appearance of eczema in him due to the nervous factor.

At the psychosomatic level a person is trying to protect themselves from the world by "building up" an additional layer of skin (inflammatory area), increasing its protection.

Psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, helping people with chronic eczema, brought out psychological portraits of patients, finding fewer coincidences among them. Thus, the description of a classic patient with eczema appeared. In many ways, this portrait answers the question of who is more susceptible to this disease.

"Eternal teenagers". First of all, experts say, this people with low self-esteem. They have eczema is always psychogenic in nature and is formed in childhood, more often - in the transitional period of puberty. Vivid emotional events of youth can have indelible impressions on a teenager who already doubts himself, bright emotional events of his youth: first unrequited love, conflicts with his peers, quarrels and scandals with parents in the struggle for independence.

But such events occur in all, and not everyone develops eczema. Simply there are people who are “stuck” in the puberty period, emotionally remaining at that level of development, who do not want to grow up spiritually. They are touchy, shy of their appearance, rather timid in their relations with the opposite sex, jealous. They have a heightened sense of anxiety - the world is hostile for them, uncomfortable.

"Unhappy Spouses". This category of eczema patients is quite numerous. For the first time, the disease appears in them in the adult period. The vast majority of such people, according to the results of psychoanalytic reports, are married, but in it they are unhappy. Such adults become for various reasons, but one thing unites them - they all endure undesirable relations for themselves for quite a long time.

Gradually, resentment or irritation accumulates, which, not having the opportunity or courage to pour on the partner, the dissatisfied spouse pours out on himself. Both self-esteem and health suffer. acute eczema develops first. Mainly affects the hands, almost always the disease becomes chronic and manifests every time another family disorder occurs.

Children in fear. Eczema in childhood develops in children who grow up in a state of fear. Usually such children are brought up by powerful and authoritarian parents who do not disdain physical punishments, allow themselves to scream at the child, dictate what, when and how to do it, with whom to be friends, which sections to attend, how to study and where to go.

Women aged 30 years. Eczema occurs more often in the fair sex than in men. Researchers attribute this to the characteristics of the age of women after 30 years. Psychologically women begin to be worried that they are losing their appeal, they are aging - This leads to dissatisfaction with his own appearance, to the desire to isolate himself from the world. They try to make sure that no one is looking at them, not noticing wrinkles or cellulite.

“Militant Loners”. This patient psychotype can occur at any age, but more often eczema develops in adolescents and young people with a complete lack of understanding of the world and its rules. Such people prefer solitude, loneliness, they do not like companies, they are annoyed by the need to contact someone. Often these people suffer from social phobia or anxiety personality disorder. They are not only seeking retirement, but are also prepared to quite aggressively protect their inner world from external influences.

Quite often, medication has only a temporary effect, and eczema returns. Therefore, it is necessary to add psychotherapeutic treatment to traditional treatment. Highly It is important to determine why the disease appeared, and try to smooth out or completely eliminate the causes.

A psychotherapist can help in this, who will not only find out the source of the disease, but also provide the necessary psychocorrection. First of all, he will try to do so so that the outside world does not seem hostile to the patient, and also teach you how to live in harmony with your own emotions. There are many methods for this - art therapy, NLP, and methods of visualization and transactional analysis.

Hypnotherapy is considered one of the best ways to treat psychogenic eczema.. A comprehensive approach to treatment reduces the recurrence of the disease, and sometimes leads to a complete cure. In any case, the patient's quality of life is significantly improved, and this is due not only to the fact that skin rashes appear less often - he begins to use a new model of thinking and behavior in everyday life.

In the case of marital psychogenic eczema often divorce often helps.. Having got rid of the need to be in relationships that do not bring joy, people partly get rid of irritation and resentment, which has a positive effect on the condition of their skin.