Dear readers;
This week, I will mention one more psychopathology, which is common in the society and whose prevalence we have observed to increase with the stress caused by the pandemic period;
Somatization-Somatization Disorder.
p>The disease is also called "Somatic Symptom Disorder" in the literature.
Diagnosis can be made if the person has constant thoughts that are unrelated or disproportionate to their physical symptoms, these symptoms cause severe anxiety, spend more time to relieve their anxiety, or concentrate all their attention on this issue.
The disorder characteristically begins at a young age and continues with a range of different physical symptoms. While taking the history of the patients, it is common for those who state that they have been sick frequently from the beginning and complain of some neurological symptoms. Complaints of menstrual irregularity are common among female patients.
Complaints of sexual dysfunction or painful sexual intercourse may also accompany the complaints.
Patients are frequently hospitalized and even have unnecessary surgery because their complaints are chronic.
Somatic Symptom Disorders are more common in women. According to studies, most of the women diagnosed with this disease have a history of sexual maltreatment in their childhood.
Although, all blows and damage to the child's mental development in childhood cause many disorders or a genetic predisposition to the disease to become functional in adulthood.
Somatic complaints can also be seen in diseases such as depression, anxiety disorders or schizophrenia, but these diseases should be separated as a result of good investigations.
If the differential symptoms cannot be determined well, unfortunately, the wrong treatment may lead the patient to much more negative pictures. .
In general, pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy are applied together in the treatment of the disease. The patient has overestimated thoughts that he or she has a significant physical illness. to be violent Only cognitive behavioral therapies can be effective in n cases. Cognitive behavioral therapy generally works on constructing functional thoughts instead of negative automatic thoughts.
With the patient's consciousness and memory being in place, the thought content is problematic. The patient listens to his/her own body, shows the behavior of following his biological clock excessively. Self-diagnosis also leads to additional disease.
The stress caused by the pandemic period or the negativities caused by the period confronts us by causing the emergence of many underlying psychopathologies. Somatization Disorder is one of them.
In general, even if no symptoms are present continuously, if symptomatic status persists for more than six months, it is time to see a specialist. Of course, these symptoms should be in the form of symptoms as I mentioned above, and they should negatively affect our daily life, social and individual functions.
I wish you a healthy and fruitful week, best regards...
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