Psychosomatic Illnesses!

Hi guys!

Today I decided to blog about psychosomatic illnesses. I am interested in this topic because I myself am affected by psychosomatic illnesses. Well, not exactly the real illnesses, but if I have a headache for more than a day, for example, I know that it's psychosomatic and that I rather have to think about what's going on in my personal life than just taking a pill and hoping it'll wear off.

Psychosomatic describes the relation between the medical condition and the psychic, emotional or mental state of a patient. Often a simple headache is caused by some personal problems or stress, but the symptoms can also go much further. Some personal issues can lead to cancer, stomach ulcer or other dangerous or even fatal diseases.
In today's medicine it continually gets harder for a doctor to really determine a health problem and cure it because they are often pyschosomatic. In that case only the symptom is cured by the orthodox medicine and never the real illness/problem. That's why sometimes people keep on going to a doctor with the same reoccuring problem over years when all they would need to do is change something in their personal life, or maybe rather seek psychological help than medical.

Another really interesting aspect about psychosomatics is the healing-thing. I know, that's not the right way of saying it, but I'm tired and can't think of a better way right now. So, what I'm talking about is the following: When a patient loses his will to live he does recover much worse or not at all from an illness or an operation. Apparently the process of healing does not only take place in the body, but also in our minds - to a large extend I'd guess.
As my father's a doctor himself I know quite a few stories about people who didn't recover simply because they lost their will to fight off their disease. Or this one man who was terminally ill, but just did not die for almost a year, even though he was suffering and suffering. His wife finally told him that he can go now and he died two days later.
^^ If not stories like that, what else does prove how important the relation between body and mind is?

I guess there is a grain of truth - more than only a grain, actually - in the saying that a healthy mind leads to a healthy body.