There is a link between disease and emotions, between body and mind, emotions do not arise from nothing, but are related to the way we interpret what is happening to us, and these reactions can lead to physiological symptoms, just as physical illnesses influence our mood and cause us fear, fear or concern , many psychological problems reflect how we feel in our bodies.
When the mind-body relationship is altered by unpleasant emotions, negative feelings, low self-esteem and stressful situations, psychosomatic diseases appear, considered physical diseases whose onset and development may be related to psychological factors. When we talk about psychosomatic symptoms, we are talking about physical pain for which there is no possibility of medical diagnosis.
“All our emotions translate on a body level
-Boris Cyrulnik-
There are different modalities in forms of manifestation of organic disorders or changes related to psychological factors:
“The problem is not the disease that the person has, but the person who has the disease.
-William Osler-
Faced with the same disease, its physical manifestation develops in one way or another, depending on the state of mind with which we face it. In diseases such as cancer or fibromyalgia, it has been proven that learning to manage emotions and seek a certain emotion balance contributes to the recovery of the patient.
When emotions are not expressed, a deficit is created in the mentalization of emotions, little or no bodily sensations appear, associated with mental states.
Alexitimia is a very important concept related to the inability to express emotions, describes a set of symptoms observed in people with psychosomatic diseases and shows difficulty identifying and discovering emotions, as well as a life of poor inner fantasy.
The various causes of alexithymia are hereditary, genetic, neurological, brain injury, or trauma. People with alexithymia are often described by others, including their loved ones, as cold and distant, lack empathic skills, and have great difficulty understanding and responding effectively to the feelings of others.
It has been proposed that there be a phenomenon of emotional repression in alexitimia, which would serve to keep out of consciousness painful or unpleasant experiences, which individuals use as a defense strategy and therefore have less access to emotional memories, especially negative or unpleasant events.
Emotional blockage is the response that many people give to a disease lived as threatening or serious, which entails the difficulty of recognizing and regulating their own emotions, in order to protect themselves from suffering. Far from protecting yourself, this emotional style has serious clinical consequences. and social consequences. What the mouth closes the body screams.
Most diseases are caused by ourselves by new emotions.