Somatopsychologie: sick body, sick mind Somatopsychologie: sick body, sick mind
From: Brain & Mind, June 2010
fatigue, pain, concentration problems classic signs of depression. But the cause may well be an undiscovered physical disease.
For Tina were therapists and psychotropic drugs to their constant companions. The young woman is suffering from violent mood swings between euphoria and over of touch to depression and crying fits. Doctors prescribed her antidepressants and antipsychotics, but did not improve their condition. It was late recognized the true cause of their suffering, "porphyria - a rare metabolic disorder that accumulate precursors of the red blood pigment hemoglobin in all institutions, including the brain.
The Somatopsychologe Erich Kasten, University Hospital Lübeck is convinced that come without reason in Germany every year thousands of people in psychological treatment. Patients with mental health problems would not be thorough enough to look for organic causes, the researchers said in the current issue of "Brain & Mind" (No. 6 / 2010).
Here are the most common problems of this kind is not nearly as exotic as Porphyria: enabling some hidden cause inflammation in the body with a constant malaise and lethargy in a bad mood, which is similar to a depression. In order to make the correct diagnosis, a brief, simple blood test. Disturbances of the hormonal skin maintenance - such as the products of thyroid and ovaries - bring some serious psychological symptoms can, however, determine as quickly and treat.
To become a master of this problem, must in particular the training of doctors and psychologists strongly intertwine, so box. Only in recent years had basis of medicine in general part of the curriculum for prospective Psychologists - and vice versa. More interdisciplinary knowledge would not only be less suffering for patients, but also less unnecessary costs to the health care system.
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