Psychosomatic causes of digestive disorders. How do gastrointestinal disorders occur? How does the disease mechanism work?

Psychosomatics affects the condition of the intestines 24 hours\7 days a week. And often without solving the problem of the nervous system it is impossible to get rid ofirritable bowel syndrome or constipation. But this is a solvable issue if we remember that emotions have their own biochemical basis and it can be influenced quite naturally.

This is such a wonderful science that explained in modern medical language the relationship between a person’s mental state and diseases at the physical level.

In particular, it is now clear by what mechanism the so-called "gastric neurosis" or irritable bowel syndrome. It no longer seems random that if you sleep little or poorly, then the risk of developing a duodenal ulcer or nonspecific ulcerative colitis increases. But this is a solvable issue if we remember that emotions have their own biochemical basis and can be influenced quite naturally.

The confrontation between theories that everything is “only from nerves” or everything is only from “infections” in medical science continues. Some gastroenterologists treat the head first, while others prescribe antibiotics!

My practice for more than 20 years convinces me as a specialist that the truth, as always, is in the middle! If there is acute inflammation, then on short period I need medication; working with thoughts alone will not help. But even after the cessation of the acute phase, not all people manage to restore normal digestion only by working with a psychologist. What's stopping you?

I came to the answer to this question in the process of working with several thousand people who have contacted the Sokolinsky Center in St. Petersburg since 2002! It's worth reading to the end...

Today I can confidently recommend the following! Before contacting a psychologist, you need to eliminate the physical causes of the disorder, the main factors irritating your nervous system:

Watch this video on how psychosomatics affects your health!

Who is right: Louise Hay, Sigmund Freud or your psychotherapist with his antidepressants

Almost two centuries have passed since the emergence of this science, during which it received significant development and extensive theoretical justification. But there are very different approaches.

Modern academic medicine recognizes the fact of influence nervous disorders on human physiology. But there is also a practical question: “Which theoretical basis most correctly reveals the nature of such ailments - academic medicine, the popular psychology of Louise Hay or the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud?” On the Internet you will find dozens of tables where separate disease or the pathology of an entire organ is associated with a specific emotion. If you overcome it within yourself, you will be cured.

Fans of psychoanalysis argue that the problem is only in complexes regarding the assessment of one’s personality, childhood experiences and sexual moments in psychology.

And most people, having read Louise Hay with interest and sparing money on a psychoanalyst, end up in the “clutches” of the nearest psychotherapist who prescribes happiness pills in the form of antidepressants. For example, 50% of Americans already take them. And some have been since childhood. I think this is not a method for mass use! For a simple reason - it is addictive, commits violence against the individual at the chemical level. If we are not talking about mental illness, there is a desire to be a reasonable person and some kind of finances, I would start with the reasons for what is happening, not the symptoms. How? I'll tell you further!

As for trying to tie every emotion to an organ. There is truth in this. But besides the soul, which suffers from these wrong emotions, we also have the Spirit (it is incomprehensible to us to understand and this is the area of ​​​​religion) and the Body. And it can also affect your state of mind. This feedback definitely exists and the main religions use it - including fasting in their system of caring for a person or, for example, standing straining the body in church during a service, instead of thinking about the soul while sitting.

Even if you are not an Orthodox churchgoer, even if you are an atheist, of course nothing harmful will happen if you figure out what negative emotions reign in your inner world.

For the Orthodox, God himself ordered (in the literal sense of the word) to analyze what you are doing wrong, why you are depressed, angry... But with them it is just easier. There is a precisely defined methodology. I am sure that if you delve into the essence of this religion (and not into candles, notes, etc.), then it is easy to notice that it is the most “psychotherapeutic” in relation to a person. You do what corresponds to generally accepted ethical standards, you try as best you can, but if something planned does not work out, then you don’t get angry, but agree that everything is God’s will. A therapist's paradise!

So, from experience: emotions are much easier to manage when nothing irritates the nerve cells on the physical level. This can and should be worked with using natural remedies, then the help of a psychologist will be many times more effective.

What hinders you most from bringing your nervous system to self-regulation is:

Sleeping less than 7 hours or falling asleep after midnight, which disrupts the melatonin cycle and prevents recovery

Disturbance of intestinal microflora

Chronic metal intoxication: lead, arsenic, mercury, lithium, aluminum

Intoxication by digestive by-products

Stagnation of bile, impaired detoxification function of the liver

Calcium and magnesium deficiency

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For a psychosomatic person, one disease always leads to another

Well-studied pathologies that have a psychogenic basis are considered intestinal - they have been successfully treated by psychotherapists for a long time, which confirms in practice the competence of traditional psychotherapy in the treatment of psychosomatic disorders.

To explain the nature of the psychogenic mechanism of the formation of physical ailments, the term “comorbidity” is used in psychology. The author of this concept, Alvar Feinstein, substantiated the existence of a “second” clinical picture in diseases in 1970. Those. Each health problem is connected with another and they mutually influence each other.

That is, the scientist denied the presence of a single cause for any pathology.

For example, in infectious diseases, the factor of their occurrence is considered to be a pathogenic microorganism. According to Feinstein, this is not enough. Why did one get an infection and the other not? The possibility of human infection is determined by additional factors: heredity, somatic disorders, the consequences of previous diseases, and a general weakening of the immune system. Why is the immune system weakened? This is how the tangle of reasons unravels!

The scientist combined these reasons, making them interdependent clinical phenomena. Psycho-emotional factors - stress, hypochondria, depression, phobia, aggression - became full participants in the patient’s illness clinic.

How does irritable bowel syndrome develop from a psychosomatic point of view?

Let's consider the comorbid mechanism of the relationship between a functional disorder of the intestines, for example, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and a psycho-emotional state. A description of the phenomenon is given in the reference book by Yu. Yu. Eliseev “Psychosomatic diseases”. IBS often overlaps with other gastrointestinal (GIT) disorders, which is often encountered in medical practice. 94% of patients who were diagnosed with irritable bowel syndrome suffered from various types of psychopathologies - depression, hypochondria, hysteria, and anxiety-phobic disorders. Each pathology caused characteristic symptoms course of IBS.

For example, a cocktail of different emotions, among which the most pronounced are irritability and anger. The endocrine support of these emotions is norepinephrine (adrenal hormone) - a neurotransmitter that plays the role of a relaxant in the nervous system, that is, it can have a relaxing effect on the intestinal walls, which leads to flatulence and diarrhea. Norepinephrine is an antidote to adrenaline, it can relieve spasms smooth muscle, providing an analgesic effect. However, long-term participation of the neurotransmitter in the functioning of the nervous system leads to complete or partial atony of the smooth muscles of the intestine, impaired peristalsis, which at the physiological level manifests itself in the form of constipation - a severe form of constipation.

Fear and irritation most affect the intestines

Depression, phobia, and hypochondria most often develop in people after stress. A person in this state is depressed by fear, inactive, shuns the light, and gloomy. The fear experienced by the patient leads to increased production of adrenaline. This substance is a neurotransmitter; thanks to it, synaptic transmission of signals is ensured in the nervous system, which controls the physiological processes of our body. Medical science knows more than two hundred neurotransmitter substances, each of them plays its own role in this control. The role of adrenaline has been sufficiently studied and it is known that it can cause spasms of smooth muscles, causing pain. The stronger the spasm, the more pain for IBS.

Adrenaline can also narrow blood vessels, which leads to the formation of ulcers in chronic psychosomatic disorders, short-term increase the effectiveness of the immune system.

Develops in the gastrointestinal tract dysbacteriosis, since poor blood circulation interferes with the nutrition of bifidobacteria colonies.

The physiological diversity of bacteria disappears. Instead of being predominantly friendly, it is populated by opportunistic pathogens. On the one hand, they poison the nervous system with the products of their vital activity, on the other hand, they are not able to properly synthesize B vitamins, serotonin (the joy hormone), and GABA.

The quality of food processing and, therefore, the energy level depend on the symbiont bacteria. A drop in the level of vitality forces us to lean on sweets - an instant source of energy. Which further promotes the proliferation of fungi in the intestines.

As a result of dysbiosis, physiological disturbances in intestinal activity occur - constipation or diarrhea.

This explains how constipation, irritable bowel syndrome and psychosomatics are connected on a physical level.

Subject to constant production of adrenaline immune system Over time, it receives a reverse impulse - instead of an increase in the functioning of the immune system, there is a decline, the number of pathogenic intestinal bacteria increases, the pressure in the intestines increases due to gas formation, which leads to stagnation of bile, its reflux into the pancreas, and reflux into the stomach. Constipation may alternate with diarrhea at this stage.

Natural method. How to reduce the influence of psychosomatics

Simultaneous cleansing of toxins that have already accumulated as a result of improper digestion and chronic inflammation V intestinal wall+ rebooting the microflora allows you to effectively prepare the ground for special anti-stress support for the nervous system. Here we also have a very rich many years of experience and a non-drug product! It's called Biolan. I advise you to remember it, since it has become more convenient for many people to control their nervous system with its help. The advantage of Biolan for psychosoamtic disorders is that it does not calm or stimulate, but provides anti-stress protection to cells, which leads to self-regulation. Since it is based on amino acids, it is a 100% natural substance and is neither addictive nor accumulation, and has no side effects. Read more about it!

How to take by month, starting with detox

The course takes 3 months: It is deep!

1 month: Complex of deep cleansing and nutrition + normalization of microflora. Add Biolan to it

1. NutriDetox take 1\3-1\2 teaspoon. spoons per glass of water at a convenient time of day for you (always start with a lower dose). Pour the powder with clean water or vegetable juice at room temperature, stir quickly and drink immediately. Can also be included in a smoothie or other healthy drink.

2. Liver 48 (Margali) 1 caps. 2 times a day during meals at a time convenient for you

3. Zosterin ultra 30% in the first 10 days at a convenient time of day for you 1 each double packet of powder, pour boiling water, stir, let stand for 5 minutes, stir again and drink. Do not combine time with medications.

4. Zosterin ultra 60% in the next 10 days 1 single bag using the same method.

(Thus, Nutridetox, Liver 48, Unibacter. You take the special series all month, and Zosterin 30% and 60% for 10 days in turn at the beginning of the course).

5. Unibacter. Special series2 caps. 2 times a dayat a time convenient for you. (keep after opening it is necessary in the refrigerator)

Order:

2 month:

Unibacter. Special series1 caps. 2 times a dayat a convenient time of day for you.

Biolan

Order: (4 pcs)

3 month:

Unibacter. Special series1 caps. 2 times a dayat a convenient time of day for you.

Biolan 1 caps. 2 times a day at a time convenient for you. Open capsule, pour under tongue, 20 days only

Order: (4 pcs) + (1pcs) .

* During the day you need to drink at least 1 liter clean water to effectively remove associated toxins.In your diet you need to reduce sweets, flour, fatty and spicy foods, smoked foods, and unnatural alcohol. It is advisable to exclude pork completely.

Influence the causes! With the help of cleansing of toxins and rebooting microflora, start improving your well-being

Here you will get acquainted with a very convenient system for promoting health using natural remedies that you just need to add to your regular diet.

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This complex is designed for a modern person. We focus on what matters most - the reasons feeling unwell. This saves time. As you know: 20% of accurately calculated efforts bring 80% of the results. This makes sense to start with!

To avoid dealing with each symptom separately, start by cleansing the body. This way you will eliminate the most common causes of poor health and get results faster.
Start with cleansing

We are busy all the time, often break our diet, suffer from high toxic loads due to the abundance of chemicals around us, and are nervous a lot.

This system is suitable for everyone, safe, easy to implement, based on an understanding of human physiology and does not distract you from your normal life. You will not be tied to the toilet; you do not need to take anything by the hour.

“The Sokolinsky System” gives you a convenient opportunity to influence the causes, and not just treat the symptoms.

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Is not a medicine

Always a complex!

"Complex of deep cleansing and nutrition + normalization of microflora" universal and very convenient in that it does not distract from ordinary life, does not require being tied to the toilet, or taken hourly, and acts systematically.

It consists of four natural remedies that consistently cleanse the body and support its functioning at the level of: intestines, liver, blood and lymph. Admission within a month.

For example, either beneficial substances or toxins from “blockages”, products of inflammation due to irritable intestines, can be absorbed from your intestines.

NutriDetox - powder for preparing a “green cocktail”, not only deeply cleanses and soothes the intestinal mucosa, softens and removes blockages and fecal stones, but also provides at the same time a rich set of bioavailable vitamins, minerals, vegetable protein, unique chlorophyll with anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory, anti-aging properties effect.

Accept you need it once or twice a day. Simply dilute in water or vegetable juice.

Composition of NutriDetox: Psyllium seed powder, spirulina, chlorella, inulin, plant enzyme papain, microdoses of cayenne pepper.

On the next level Liver 48 (Margali) supports enzymatic activity and activates liver cells, this protects us from the penetration of toxins into the blood, reduces cholesterol levels. Improving the functioning of hepatocytes immediately increases the level of vitality, supports the immune system, and improves skin condition.

Liver 48 (Margali)- a secret Mingrelian recipe made from herbs in combination with iron sulfate, which was tested by specialists of classical medicine and showed that it is indeed capable of maintaining the correct structure of bile, the enzymatic activity of the liver and pancreas - to cleanse the liver.

You need to take 1 capsule 2 times a day with meals.

Active components:milk thistle fruits, stinging nettle leaves, great plantain leaves, iron sulfate, sandy immortelle flowers, milk thistle extract.

This reduces the toxic load from the first days and helps restore self-regulation of the immune and endocrine systems.

The action of Zosterin in relation to heavy metals it has been so well studied that even guidelines for its use in hazardous industries have been officially approved.

You need to take Zosterin only in the first 20 days, first ten days with 1 powder 30%, then another ten days - 60%.

Ingredients: Zosterina - extract of the sea grass Zostera marina.

The fourth component of the method is a complex of 13 probiotic strains beneficial bacteria Unibacter. Special Series. It is included in the “Sokolinsky System” because rebooting the microflora - rebiosis is one of the most modern ideas about the prevention of the so-called. "diseases of civilization." Proper intestinal microflora can help regulate cholesterol and blood sugar levels, reduce the inflammatory response, protect the liver and nerve cells from damage, enhance the absorption of calcium and iron, reduce allergies and fatigue, make bowel movements daily and calm, correct the immune system and have many other functions.

We use a probiotic with perhaps the most profound effect on the body as a whole, the formula of which has been proven over decades of practice.

The goal of the entire program is to eliminate deep reasons feeling unwell, restore self-regulation, which would then be easy to maintain with a healthy diet and corrected m way of life. Moreover, using the complex, you simultaneously influence different areas of supporting your health. It's reasonable and profitable!

Thus, in 30 days you cleanse at three levels at once: intestines, liver, blood, remove toxins and activate the most important organs on which your well-being depends.

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In our article “psychosomatics: intestines” we will look at the psychological causes of a wide variety of ailments associated with the gastrointestinal tract. If you are just getting acquainted with the topic of the somatic basis of diseases, we recommend it.

About the organ

The intestine begins immediately after the duodenum and progresses through the flesh to the anus. Its organic matter includes the small intestine and the large intestine. The first one copes with absorption nutrients that we get from food, the second is needed to decompose waste, absorb water and form feces. Everything that the body no longer needs for further transportation “out” accumulates in the colon.

Diseases

The small intestine is susceptible to diseases as often as all other organs. Among the most common we highlight:

  • tumors;
  • diarrhea;
  • diverticulitis;
  • Crohn's disease;

The colon is characterized by the following:

  • constipation;
  • colic;
  • diarrhea;
  • colitis;
  • tumor;
  • accumulation of intestinal gases;
  • convulsions;
  • gastroenteritis;
  • worms.

To understand the nature of tumor development, read. If the tumor is malignant, then you need to understand. Depending on the organ, tumors have their own unique causes, so please return to this article after reading.

General interpretation for the small intestine

Any problems that arise in the area small intestine, will be associated with the loss of the ability to receive useful things from the surrounding world. A person gets hung up on little things when he needs to step back a little and take in the big picture. Don't think that this is nothing. You've probably seen how someone makes a mountain out of a molehill; sometimes such behavior reaches the point of absurdity and truly interferes with the life of not only the person who is fixated, but also those around him.

A person may not be satisfied with some tiny little thing, because of this he can reject the whole of reality, ultimately denying his happiness.

Mom gathered all the household members at the table to have a family dinner. One of the younger sons refused to sit with everyone, because he had already eaten and he wanted to quickly return to the computer game. According to the hostess, the dinner is ruined, she throws everything cooked in the trash bin, quarreling with everyone else.

In case of diverticulitis, suppressed anger is added to the preoccupation with trifles.

Crohn's disease develops in cases where a person is being persecuted obsessions, and he doesn't want to get rid of them. As a result, ideas so envelop a person that he rejects everything around him, even what is useful, which is why he himself becomes rejected.

General interpretation for the colon

Regardless of the nature of the colon disease, a person clings to irrelevant beliefs and ideas. These can be either outdated ideas that have already become obsolete, or useful principles which a person refuses.

The mother-in-law really doesn’t like that her daughter-in-law uses technological innovations in the kitchen - a steamer, blenders, a coffee maker. According to the woman, the young housewife should cook on the stove, as she herself has done all her life. Reproaching the daughter-in-law, the mother-in-law rejects new ideas, she herself suffers from lack of time and constant fatigue when she spends half a day in the kitchen, but does not intend to make life easier for herself in order to continue to stand her ground as an example to her daughter-in-law.

If outdated stereotypes are held in place by willpower in order to prove something to someone, even at the cost of one’s own comfort, then on the physical level this can manifest itself in constipation(forced delay of the obsolete).

The young man understands that to support his family and move around the city comfortably, he needs a car. He himself understands this perfectly well, but refuses the idea of ​​a car because everyone around him is teaching him (moms, dads, aunts, wife, etc.). Not wanting to be known as a person who follows the lead of his loved ones and obeys unquestioningly, the man shows the pride of insubordination and suffers himself.

IN similar cases rejection of useful ideas can manifest itself in diarrhea.

Colon problems may indicate serious contradictions between the past and the present that a person cannot “digest.” Constantly irritated, a person does not see positive points in current situations.

Unwilling to be flexible in his judgment, a person experiences intense anger, its accompaniment usually indicates colitis.

Flatulence- This external manifestation worries about possible loss or fear of getting into a difficult situation. When such anxiety accumulates, it begins to look for a way out and leads to such discomfort on the physical level.

Convulsions, arising due to problems with the colon, indicate the penetration of strong fears into life, so strong that moving forward is impossible until a person deals with them.

Our life is permeated with fears and doubts, hence so much pride, uncertainty and aggression. When faced with any kind of intestinal disease, you need to pay attention to good thoughts that will open the door to more effective functioning.

Intuitively, you always know which path to take, but all sorts of obstacles may arise on your way from the teachings of relatives, annoying little things that spoil your perfect life, fears of ending up in poverty, etc.

Everyone is afraid of everything, but when fears “materialize” in intestinal diseases, this is a sure sign that you can’t tolerate it anymore and it’s time to act. Don’t go ahead, no, but listen to your inner voice and make a decision - abandon the obsessive, accept the best, let go of the unimportant.

That's probably all that psychosomatics can tell. The intestines are an important organ, on the proper functioning of which your well-being depends. Listen to him to get back on the road to abundance and prosperity.

If you have any questions, you can ask them in the comments. You can also read about the somatics of other diseases in the book by Liz Burbo ().

I have already written about the site “Beautiful and Successful”. But not only cancer has psychosomatic causes. As a rule, any disease is, to one degree or another, caused not only by external factors (environment, nutritional habits, habits of the sick person), but also by the psychological state of the person.

Today we will talk about how, under the influence of such a factor as psychosomatics, the stomach stops working normally.

How does the psyche affect health?

For the first time, psychiatrist Pyotr Galushkin spoke about the connection between mental processes and physical health. He compiled a list of pathological personality types and correlated it with the diseases to which each of them is most susceptible.

Even individuals whose mental health is defined as “normal” have their own character traits, habits and lifestyle. They are the ones who can tell a specialist what kind of diseases a particular person is most likely to be susceptible to.

Stomach diseases: psychosomatics

Stomach pain is often caused not only by poor diet, but is often of a mental nature. Moreover, experts believe that stomach ulcers, for example, are caused primarily by psychological reasons.

The stomach is an organ with which people not only digest food. It helps to “digest” various life situations, problems, and survive them.

And, if a person feels that he is unable to do this, he is frightened by the situation in which he finds himself, he fears that he will not be able to find a favorable way out of the current situation - this may cause illness. The risk of developing stomach problems is especially high if a person ignores his condition, does not try to understand it and find the optimal solution.

Another psychosomatic cause of stomach illness is the desire to find help and support.

After all, food for a person is a way to fill the body with energy and gain satisfaction. The inability to accept help, to receive energy from other sources (for example, from communication) leads to the fact that the individual tries to compensate for the unmet need by excessive absorption of food - “seizes the problem”, as a result, gastric secretion increases, which may well cause ulcers or gastritis .

Psychosomatics, stomach and problems in its work

If your stomach hurts, psychosomatics, as a rule, plays the “first fiddle” in this unpleasant situation. It’s worth remembering how, before an important event, you get a “sick feeling in the pit of your stomach” and “a cramp in your stomach.” For particularly sensitive people, important matter the stomach can become seriously ill, vomiting or even “bear sickness” begins.

As a rule, there are no serious pathologies behind such manifestations. In this way, the body demonstrates its reaction to a strong emotion that a person is trying to restrain: fear, excitement, etc.

But also more serious illnesses stomach psychosomatics can also provoke..

Gastritis usually develops in people for a long time those in a state of uncertainty: they are not sure of their future, they are convinced that nothing good can be expected from life. Gastritis can also be caused by an acute outburst of strong anger that has been suppressed, “driven inside.” The disease usually manifests itself some time after the event.

The psychosomatic cause is fear or suppressed aggression, for example, when life circumstances and the environment do not suit a person, but he stubbornly tries to convince himself that “everything is fine.”

If we talk about a disease like stomach ulcer, psychosomatics in this case may be more complex. Among the reasons that provoke ulcers are the following:

  • The patient’s confidence in his own inferiority, the so-called “inferiority complex.” It does not matter what position a person occupies in real life. All that matters is his level of self-esteem.
  • Almost all “ulcer sufferers” experience a deep contradiction between the desire for independence and the need to be cared for, patronized and supported.
  • Envy also not only figuratively “corrodes” a person from the inside, but also leads to a completely material ulcer.
  • The desire to prove something to yourself and others, to look as good as possible in the eyes of others, perfectionism can also be considered as psychosomatic causes of peptic ulcer disease.
  • , a tendency to worry about any reason, suspiciousness - all these are predisposing factors for the formation of a stomach ulcer.

Other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract can also be caused by the psychosomatics listed above, for example, stomach cancer. This diagnosis threatens those who, ignoring the signals of their own body, continue to leave psychological problems unresolved, forcing the stomach to “digest” them with all its might.

When can a psychotherapist help?

Distinguish between diseases caused by external reasons, from diseases of a psychosomatic nature is sometimes not easy.

But there are several signs that allow you to understand that consulting a psychotherapist would not hurt.

  • The patient is treated for a long time by a gastroenterologist, but as soon as he gets nervous, the disease returns.
  • The normal digestion process is disrupted, cramps, pain, feelings of bloating in the abdomen or diarrhea for no apparent external reason are constantly bothering you.
  • A person constantly, for a month or more, feels depressed, sleeps poorly and gets tired quickly, feels tense, and experiences discomfort in the abdominal area or other gastrointestinal problems.

In all these cases, it is likely that among the causes of stomach pain, psychosomatics plays a leading role, and putting your mental state in order is a priority task.

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