Psychosomatics of constipation in children and adults

Constipation is a delicate subject, and not always go to the doctor with it. If we are talking about constipation in a child, then adults are more conscious - they almost always try to consult a doctor. But adults themselves are trying to solve a similar problem on their own.

Is constipation safe and what psychosomatic causes can cause it, we will tell in this article.

Constipation - a term rather narrow-minded. To denote the problem in medicine, use other names - ostentation, constipation. It implies a violation of defecation associated with a significant difficulty of this act, insufficient bowel movement.

The statistics allows you to see how topical the problem is: up to 45% of the adult population sometimes suffer from stinginess, and these are mostly elderly people, 20% of children regularly suffer from constipation.

Constipation is often associated with a small amount of feces, its increased hardness and dryness.. The man after going to the toilet does not feel obvious relief. If a person is used to empty his intestines twice a day, and he has not had a chair for 2-3 days, they talk about individual stasis.

As a possible cause of impaired defecation in medicine, generally called malnutrition with an insufficient amount of food rich in fiber and dietary fiber, a small amount of fluid intake, a sedentary lifestyle and low mobility. Also, constipation occurs more often in those who are accustomed to abuse laxatives in pregnant women because of the pressure of the uterus on the intestinal loops.

Violation of intestinal motility is also a common reason for which the discharge of fecal masses is difficult. The psychosomatic component is also being considered - constipation can be psychogenic in nature, they are often spoken of - “on nerve soil”.

For a normal stool in the human body is responsible for the work of the large intestine, in which fecal masses that fall into the rectum are formed. This section of the intestine in psychosomatic medicine is considered as the body responsible for everything material is power, money, things, desires to keep everything under control. The stronger a person is attached to the material, the harder it is for him to part from the accumulated (including accumulated emotions, insults), the more often he suffers from constipation.

Dr. Freud and his followers, including modern researchers in the field of psychosomatic illnesses (Valery Sinelnikov, Grigory Semchuk, Louise Hay, Liz Burbo and others), were able to identify the main traits of the classic patient with constipation.

The psychological portrait of this man is:

• a person is greedy, sometimes to the stinginess;
• it is extremely difficult for him to get rid of something that has objectively already become unnecessary;
• he is terribly afraid of losing what he has acquired and earned;
• he likes to collect something, often saves money for a “rainy day”, with no apparent visible goal;
• accumulation for him exists for the sake of accumulation, he likes the process itself;
• man has the desire to control everything and everyone.

Very often in cabinets these people can find so many unnecessary things set aside for "just in case"that you involuntarily ask yourself a question, why not give the unnecessary someone to someone who needs it? But such an approach, people prone to hoarding, do not even consider. And there is no value, a person has a lot of money or little, he has a good income or he lives on one pension, the habit of saving and not giving does not depend on actual material wealth.

Any gastroenterologist and therapist will confirm that very often such a delicate problem occurs in people who occupy good positions and have high incomes. Just their hoarding has millionths or billions of scales.

The desire to control everything and everyone is a very common cause of constipation. And it makes no difference whether a person takes a post, implying power and the right to control others, or he has been retired long ago. The desire to keep under control oneself, one’s children, one’s friends, relatives, one’s capital, one’s affairs and the affairs of others may be characteristic of anyone. Such a person cannot relax, no matter how hard he tries. The rectum sphincter is also in tension.

Common for all adults with constipation trait - unwillingness to part with their outdated opinions and beliefs. Try to convince the pensioner to pay for electricity and water, without leaving home, via the Internet. Or try to convince the old man that color pants are in fashion today, which are very suited to him. With a high degree of probability, you will encounter a rejection of the very idea of ​​something new. After that, is it any wonder that constipation is so widespread among older people (according to WHO statistics, they are 5 times more likely to have a disease than in all other age groups).

Familiar models, familiar dogmas and attitudes create for people the illusion of predictability and security of space. People know that there will be no surprises if you stand in a queue for three hours and pay for electricity and water, nothing unusual will happen if you write letters not on the Internet, but in the old manner, on paper. The basis of constipation is always fear - the fear of losing, losing, letting in the new, parting with the old.

Perplexity, at first glance, can cause all of the above reasons, if we recall that often problems with defecation occur in infants. After all, they are not greedy, do not save money, do not know about the new technology.

At a later age, children use stubbornness and internal stress, up to clamping the anal sphincter, to do the same thing — to rise, to boycott, to declare their disagreement to do something that adults are forcing.In our country, it is not yet common practice to ask the child what he wants, and then the mothers are surprised when preparing dinner that the child is stubborn and does not want to eat.

Not all parents ask which section the child wants to go to, what kind of sports he wants to do, whether he needs Spanish and chess lessons. The child is simply given back to where the parents might have wanted to get themselves, but it did not work out. Sometimes additional classes are chosen for reasons of proximity to home or school. It is quite clear why constipation occurs more often in such children.

A child can not always show his stubbornness somehow differently - with words, actions. He sometimes does not feel in himself enough strength to stand on equal terms with the decision of adults. That's when a riot and manifested violations of bowel movements. note that children are more prone to constipation: secretive, timid, unable to tell the truth honestly and directly, accustomed to hiding their experiences "deeper". When a lot of experiences accumulate, the rectum is blocked, and it becomes difficult to remove everything that has been deposited and needs to be disposed of.

The more laxatives eaten, the greater the likelihood of chronic obstasliatsii. This is known to all, manufacturers of laxative drugs warn in the instructions for drugs.

Therefore, the most reasonable is the comprehensive treatment, in which medications will be taken only for exceptional needs. It is important to eliminate the psychosomatic cause of constipation, and then the stool returns to normal. We must learn to share, including our own feelings, experiences, to be more generous in material terms, to be sensitive and attentive to everything new, not to be afraid to let everything new into our lives..