Body disorder—mental illness showing on the body

Body disorder is a kind of neurosis that has the characteristic of lasting worry or believing in all kinds of body symptoms. The patients seek for treatment for these symptoms, all the medical checking and doctors’ explanations will dissolve their doubt. Even though the patients do have some body disorders, but they can not explain the quality and degree of the symptom. According to the statistics, in the comprehensive hospitals, the patients who have body disorder take 20% of the outpatients and 30% of the patients who are in hospital. Therefore, when you seek for treatment repeatedly and have not any results, you should go to the mental behavior department and diagnose if you have got body disorder.

3 years ago, Ms. Qiu had a car accident, fortunately, she just had graze on her left shoulder and the doctor said there’s not anything serious. But from since then, Ms. Qiu felt uncomfortable about her shoulder and as if the muscle was jumping, besides, she had palpitation, chest tightness, sweating, bloating, anorexia and doubt everyday. Recently, she was often restless and had the idea of going to die. Her family realized the seriousness of her problem and took her to a mental hospital for checking, she was diagnosed as body disorder and relieved after having medical treatment. After Spring Festival of this year, she stopped taking medicine and her symptom happened again, even got worse. With the introduction of her friends, Ms. Qiu came to GuangDong 999 Brain Hospital. The doctor of the Department of Mental Behavior made a treatment plan for her, “medicine + mentality + physics treatment”. Mental treatment was the mail form of treatment, aiming at making Ms. Qiu know about the quality of the illness, changing her wrong concept, contacting or decreasing the mental effect. It made the patient have a right evaluation on her own body and health condition.

After more than 10 days, Ms. Qiu recovered well, her sleep and eating were normal, her mood was stable, the symptoms of palpitation and chest tightness did not happen again, she discharged. Zhang Yanchi Director of the Department of Mental Behavior told her to take medicine after discharging. When she went back to hospital for retreatment, Ms. Qiu was in good mood.

【expert】

Zhang Yanchi Director says, body disorder is common in neurosis. To these patients, even though the symptom has close relationship with mental conflict, they still refuse to talk about the possibility of mental reason. The patients are often anxious or depressed. Most patients turn to mental department due to body uncomfortable and having not any reasons in other departments. As Ms. Qiu’s body disorder, the illness reason is in the mind but shows the palpitation, chest tightness and intestinal problems.

Zhang Yanchi Director suggests if someone has similar symptoms, he should find and seek for treatment early.