The presence of psychiatric morbidity in patients admitted to non-psychiatric clinics of general hospitals has been determined by research.
1.Physical illness disrupts the function of the brain, leading to psychiatric illness. For example, depending on the area it affects, brain tumor, neurological diseases such as Parkinson's, depression, anxiety, dementia, etc. Psychiatry can lead to diseases.
2. Psychiatric diseases occur when the physical disease is perceived and affects the patient's living spaces, goals and ideals. For example; A young woman who is diagnosed with breast CA (cancer) while preparing for marriage needs psychological help.
3.Psychiatric diseases disrupt the emergence, form and course of the physical disease. For example; If a seemingly healthy young person quickly gains weight, chooses a sedentary life, and cannot cope with stress, diabetes (sugar) disease, which is in his genes, occurs. Seeing an internist, taking medication, and eating right is not enough for his treatment. The young person's body, whose sympathetic nervous system is on alert due to stress, secretes adrenaline-cortisol. These hormones raise blood sugar to provide urgent energy to the body in the "fight or flight" reaction. In this case, the doctor reproaches the patient and the patient reproaches the doctor. The role of anxiety disorders and depression in the emergence and worsening course of diseases has been proven by scientific studies. People also say that "sadness destroys people".
4.Drugs used in treatment, diagnosis and treatment methods (open heart surgery, organ transplantation, hemodialysis, MRI scans) have psychiatric side effects and complications.
PSYCHIATRIC REACTIONS DUE TO PHYSICAL DISEASE
- Emotional (emotional) reactions
- Adaptation difficulties
- Anxiety disorders
- Depressive diseases
- Psychosomatic diseases
- Somatoform diseases
- Organic brain syndrome
- Personality changes
- Psychotic disorders
- Alcohol and substance-related diseases develop.
- In individuals with physical diseases, psychosocial well-being deteriorates and psychiatric and psychological help may be required for these people.
- The special life of women is periods (pregnancy, menopause, puerperium, premenstrual Psychiatric help may be required (e.g. tension syndrome).
- Even preparation for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) imaging may require psychiatric help.
- Those with cancer, organ transplantation, dialysis, kidney failure, chronic painful disease, Psychiatric diseases and depression that occur in those with intense steroid use, pacemaker users, and chronic and fatal diseases should not be considered natural. Psychiatric treatment of the patient provides a good “prognosis” (course of the disease) of the physical disease and improves the person's quality of life.
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