He is terribly afraid to get sick and with any calhle pale from the thought that a terrible happened to him. Otherwise - a cute, smart, nice person ... Is it possible to fix hypochondrik?
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With the word «hypochondriac» The hero of the book immediately comes to mind «Three in the boat, not counting the dog», Which reads the medical dictionary and finds signs of all existing diseases, except the maternity hospital.
Analogy is incorrect. A gentleman demonstrates an exceptionally healthy response to his fears: travels to travel and more about diseases throughout the book does not remember.
This hypochondrik so easily with his imaginary disease does not discern — And not because, as often think, loves to be treated. Scientists insist: hypochondria — This is not a fault, but a disorder with which you need to be visited.
Who are they?
In essence, hypochondria — it's just painfully high anxiety. Only hypochondrik is afraid and is waiting for trouble outside, but from the inside, from its own body.
Such a poor thing does not necessarily correspond to the textbook image: painful, pale, with a weak constitution... Hypochondrik can become a healthy and physical education system, never has been not a hot. First faced with pain and unhealthy, such people often turn out to be completely ready for this. If an ordinary person has something from time to time sobs something, he belongs to this philosophical — Watch and passes, the case is everyday.
But if the hero or the stomach fell ill in life for the first time in his life, he from surprise can have something terrible.
Then the vicious circle begins. The more the person listens to himself, the more notices. The more notes, the stronger is frightened. The stronger is scared, the worse feels — After all, health stress does not add. And yesterday's cheerful merrybeat becomes pale and bile, it does not part with the medical encyclopedia and does not want to help with doctors who do not want to help him and hide the truth from him…
Break this chain difficult. But it is possible.
Jokes aside
Before talking about how to help hypochondrick, it is necessary to firmly assimilate some things that do not need.
- in no case ignore and do not hang a poor man. The main problem of hypochondriac — The fact that no one takes their complaints seriously: neither close, nor friends nor the doctor. From this anyone can spoil the character. Understand one: pains that are complaining of your close, — Real. Only the reason they are not physical, but psychosomatic. For the same reason, it is impossible to put a patient as an example of healthy and cheerful acquaintances or, on the contrary, of real patients;
- Do not try to re-educate it — will not help. Poor fellow who is afraid of elevators or exams, you can convince — Cause of his headache and bear disease. But if a person is afraid of cancer, then pain for him — Only confirmation that fears are not groundless;
- Do not hide the books on medicine, which, in your opinion, provoke hypochondria. Firstly, he will still find them, and secondly, the ill-fated medical encyclopedia is not to blame. Hypochondricks are not because they are sick that the books are read, — They read books because they feel: something is wrong with them. And since the doctors do not intelligible do not tell them, they are trying to make a diagnosis independently;
- Do not send it from a room in a quarry to a psychotherapist. Hypochondriac rarely helps psychotherapy in pure form. Moreover, it often causes irritation and despair itself to send them to him: they perceive it as another way «sell them with hands», dismiss. After all, such a council, as if once again hints that all their illness — Only the fruit of imagination. But they feel her body!
Wise doctor aibolit
To the above list «not» It would be possible to add one more thing: do not try to treat your loved one yourself without consulting a doctor. But with what?
Specialists of the whole world are watching the work of the Norwegian Dr. Ingvara Wilhelmsen from Bergen. He opened the clinic, where he treats the hypochondriks by his method: he takes them seriously with all the complaints and treats both the therapist, and as a psychiatrist — Fortunately, has appropriate qualifications. And passing something like a medical library, explaining to its excessively impressionable patients, what and how does the body work and where the disease come from. results — The most encouraging.
Of course, to Norway far. As a rule, doctors, every day dealing with «Presents» sick, simply can't make themselves seriously treat almost healthy people, which are hypochondrics. Output one: spend strength and time in search of a wise and compassionate therapist — such a lot. Such a doctor will treat the hypochondrik from what he complains about, reinforcing this case by accumulating psychotherapeutic lessons.
Any doctor has a considerable arsenal of good tall-to-effect means that do not give side effects, — they are most likely to write. Perform his appointments accurately and seriously, as if you gave your close potent drugs.
Unlike psychotherapy, physiotherapy is perfect for hypochondriac. Talk about this with a doctor.
And most importantly — Do not be afraid that your attention and sympathy spoil the patient, he will like this situation and he wants to stay in it. Ipohondrik would have given a lot to get rid of his problems. And if you want to help him in this, treat his problem with all seriousness. One sometimes is enough.
We are all a little…
In one degree or another, the hypochondria is not alien to the majority of us. A survey conducted among family doctors in the United States showed that at least 20% of their patients complained about the symptoms that were not able to detect any real health disorders.
And the magazine profile «Health», Common among therapists across America, there was even more impressive figures: 1/3 of all the answers believe that more than half of the patients coming to them are not sick, but have psychosomatic problems.
