When the mouth is in silence, the body talks

Sometimes people can’t find the words to express our pain and instead our body does.. We do not know how to name exactly what happens to us so that the rest can understand us. This inability to match our words with our emotions is known in the field of psychology as alexithym.

Habitually, This disability has its origin in a non-existent family communication system or deficient. Many of the current psychosomatic diseases give us a clue about the unmet needs of the population: listening, empathy, affection.

Somatizing means transforming emotional pain into physical pain., perhaps due to the inability to correctly express the first. An inability that must be understood and treated as the origin of a problem that fulfills a function: communicating with the body what our mind wants to express and our voice is not able to reproduce.

Psychological origin, real physical symptoms in our body

There are symptoms that hurt, bother

It is not surprising that vegetative states are observed in mood disorders, such as depression.a change in the usual sleeping pattern and many somatic complaints: sadness is being somatized.

There are many types of depression, some are characterized by the patient adopting an aggressive attitude and others by adopting a passive attitude. In both, what one feels is not communicated or it is not communicated adequately and this sensation transforms into psychological and physical discomfort.

The price of being strong at all costs leads to somatization

When we don’t communicate, we implicitly assume that we won’t be heard., that we do not have the social strategies to make ourselves understood or that we will be directly rejected. In a world where we are told that being strong is the quality of gold, no one wants to wear iron bars on their feet.

Many people do not express their discomfort because they do not find the words for it. or, simply, they have been taught that if they do so “they will be exposed.” We will not blame this solely on parents or guardians, but on society in general. We are taught all kinds of subjects, but the subject of knowing ourselves emotionally remains pending.

The result of this idea is quite evident: We avoid expressing how we feel and when we realize we no longer know why we feel bad.We have retrograde amnesia that prevents us from getting to the true root of the problem, why it hurts so much and where this came from.

The treatment of patients who somatize by health professionals

These people need medical and psychological carehistrionic

Perhaps it is true that they have a symptom amplification system and a very focused focus on these.. For example, a person with high degrees of neuroticism may exhibit this pattern of excessive symptom searching and checking.

Therefore, that person may be more focused on their symptoms and that is why their anxious style is making them angry. But the symptoms are there, they are real: headaches, gastrointestinal discomfort, persistent chronic fatigue, etc.

Treatment of somatic diseases

The patient must be cared for INTEGRALLYtaking into account the psychological characteristics that may be influencing their physical symptoms and also evaluating how their physical symptoms worsen the psychological condition.

Many times, When a somatic disease is not treated correctly, it becomes chronic. and a logical and terrible consequence may appear for the person who suffers from it.

The disease, now chronic, causes the person to avoid all social activities or alter your routine, believing that you are avoiding discomfort and that your symptoms will be more controlled in your daily routine. Little by little, the person abandons his life because of his symptoms.

Psychosomatic illnesses are real and require specific treatment tailored to the patient’s characteristics. Once organic pathologies have been ruled out, professionals must understand what the body is trying to say, because the mouth is silent without giving reason to any specific cause.

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