How the defense of the psyche “repression” prevents you from finding stress and finding out the cause of the disease. https://youtube.com/shorts/cw3cRvxgnAc?feature=share When I ask during a consultation what kind of stress there was before your illness, the person often does not remember. This happens not on purpose. His psyche hides from pain in this way. One of the protective mechanisms of the psyche is called “repression”. What does it mean to repress? To repress is to forget. But the problem has not been solved. The problem persists only now in the body: in the form of muscle tension, vascular spasm, disruption of work organs. When the initial cause exists for a long time, the disease becomes chronic. A clinical example of how this happens. A woman, let’s call her Tatyana, 51 years old, works as a teacher at school. Professional approach to everything: - she gives her attention, time and knowledge to each child and parents .-works until late in the evening. At home, Tatyana just goes to bed, she doesn’t have enough strength for anything. And then, as luck would have it, when Tatyana wants to rest and go to a sanatorium, her skin becomes covered with blisters. What kind of sanatorium is it now? Tatyana goes to the doctor and receives treatment only not with relaxation and pleasure, as in a sanatorium. But with tension and regret. Moreover, the illness lasts exactly as long as he is on vacation. This may be accidental. Yes, of course. But this is repeated. Tatyana remembered that earlier during During the holidays I was constantly sick. Doctors cannot find the reason why the skin disease occurs. The tests are normal. When I asked if there was any stress before these. Tatyana answered that there was no. What to do if this happened? Of course it is important to treat damaged cells and restore the function of the organ. It is also important to get rid of the reason that triggers this process. I asked Tatyana what she feels when there is severe itching. When Tatyana scratches her skin, her body is tense, but after she “scratches” it, it’s as if the tension goes away. What she wants show us the skin? So that we pay attention to it. How can there be other things when there is such an itch. When Tatyana paid attention to the skin, we found out that she wanted to go to the sanatorium not alone, but with a friend. Her friend sometimes envies her and does not hide it This. A friend claims that Tatyana “does everything at once and easily.” Then Tatyana remembered that once at the age of 5 she had a beautiful dress in which she went out and her other friend did not communicate with her. She left. After this, Tanya developed itching and a rash on her skin. But her friend began to come to visit her when she was sick. Logic did not call this situation stress. And the body considered that this was stress and remembered how to get out of it, since it was used to doing this. Now, so that Tatyana is not envied and does not leave her, for example, her skin may get sick. It happens that it is difficult to understand yourself and find the cause of the disease. Now we know that sometimes psychological defense - “repression” - does not allow you to go there. Do you want to figure it out? with your causes of illness, sign up for a consultation. Galina Martynyuk, psychosomatologist, doctor and scenario psychologist, WhatsApp 89164041162