All diseases are caused by nerves: visual evidence
In medicine there is a whole direction on psychosomatic diseases. Their development is provoked by a violation of the emotional state. For example, when a person reacts too violently to various life events. It doesn't matter whether they are positive or negative.
Cause and investigation
The fact is that our state of mind is a kind of “superstructure” over the brain. Through the central nervous system, it regulates the functioning of other body systems.
First of all - immune and endocrine. If violations occur in this superstructure, then the operation of other systems is at risk. Constant excessive emotions keep the body in a state of stress. As a result, stress hormones are produced in excess, then the entire hormonal balance is disrupted, the immune system is depressed and does not perform its functions. The body is mobilized to overcome stress: blood pressure rises, blood vessels spasm, pulse quickens, blood glucose levels rise...
Frivolous test: “Find your way to cope with stress”
It is very important to notice these disorders before they cause serious illness. At the initial stage, a person begins to experience some strange health problems. “Out of the blue” I’m worried about abdominal pain, intestinal disorders, urination problems, interruptions in heart rhythm, heart pain…
However, tests and other examinations may not show any deviations from the norm. Experts call this condition somatized emotional disorder.
Treatment is primarily the normalization of the emotional state. In this case, as if by magic, the unpleasant symptoms disappear. If you miss time, more serious disorders may begin to develop in the body. Most often, according to the principle “where it’s thin, it breaks.” Some people may get gastritis due to stress, while others may have heart problems.
Strange connection
Chinese doctors claim that certain emotions “hit” specific organs. For example, anger is according to the heart. There is little research in our medicine to judge this. But experienced doctors admit that such dependence does exist. Thus, liver disease is often accompanied by anger, stomach ulcers by irritability, and chronic stress can lead to the onset of Parkinson’s disease.
Attention: symptoms!
How to understand that your emotional state goes beyond the boundaries that are safe for health?
✓ You are too demanding of yourself and overreact to any criticism addressed to you. Regardless of whether they are objective or not. The heart begins to beat faster, breathing becomes irregular, the face turns red, the mood changes dramatically... By the way, the same applies to the reaction to compliments and praise.
✓ You are overcome by excessive anxiety. You worry about every little thing - trembling in your hands and a feeling of squeezing in your head. These are all signs of stress.
✓ Your blood pressure often rises, something somewhere constantly hurts. In addition, intestinal disorders or urinary disorders are a concern. But examinations show that everything is normal. It's time to see a neurologist!
Suppress or throw out?
It is believed that it is harmful to suppress anger, resentment and other negative emotions and it is better to throw them out. In fact, this is speculation. Any excessive and negative emotions, whether you “keep” them inside or throw them out, destroy the body.
Moreover, in many cases, spilling out negativity is even more harmful, as it leads to increased blood pressure and worsening stress. By the way, scientists have recognized ... crying as an effective method of relieving emotional stress. Unless, of course, you make him hysterical. But it’s much better not to let your emotions get the better of you. Remember not to worry too much about what has already happened. Or fantasize about non-existent events. Live in the present - today and now! If you can’t cope with your emotions, you should consult a psychologist.
What diseases are caused by frayed nerves?
✓ Bronchial asthma ✓ Stomach ulcer ✓ Coronary heart disease ✓ Intestinal microflora disorders ✓ Thyroid gland dysfunction ✓ Uterine fibroids in women ✓ Arterial hypertension
Fatigue has accumulated: learning to switch to rest
How to control yourself
1. The main principle of “emotional first aid” is distraction from your experiences.
2. Switch your attention using physical processes: clench your fists tightly and focus on these sensations. Take a deep, slow breath and exhale sharply and forcefully. Repeat several times.
3. If stress hits you at home, take a shower. The massage effect of water will help you switch.
Expert: Olga Sapronenkova, medical neurologist, candidate of medical sciences, associate professor
Nervous diseases
The most important rule in the fight against nervous diseases is to keep emotions under control, learn to understand and accept reality as it is, stop being an observer of life and enjoy every moment of it, try to look for a way out in any, even difficult, situation and strive for extensive knowledge. The latter is especially important, because it is the intellect that sometimes helps to solve a complicated problem and relieve nervous tension.
Irritation, fear, anxiety are very harmful to the stomach. In people who constantly experience these emotions, the secretion of gastric juice increases, the acid content in it increases and at the same time the blood supply to the walls of the stomach decreases, its protective functions decrease. As a result, an ulcer may form. The intestines can be affected in a similar way.
Many people have been angry, hated, or afraid for ten, twenty, or thirty years without knowing it. They may not be aware of their anger or irritation, but their body knows about it, and over time it begins to malfunction. One of the best evidence of the inner workings of emotions is an example when a person’s heart, in itself healthy, suddenly beats intensely or freezes if he lies calmly in bed and seemingly does not experience any emotions. In this case, the speed of heart contraction depends precisely on hidden stresses.
Changes in the body caused by emotions consist mainly of the expansion and contraction of blood vessels. Spasms of cerebral vessels, accompanying nausea, and sometimes vomiting often occur as a reaction to one or another emotion. This reaction can be fleeting, or it can develop into a serious, painful disease, such as arthritis.
Here's how it happens. The brain's message about emotional stress is transmitted through nerve endings to the muscles and then to the joints. The blood vessels that supply them react to stress by disrupting their circulation. If stress continues for years, joint tissues are affected.
People susceptible to diseases due to nervousness or emotional stress are divided into two types according to the way they react - active and passive.
Active are people with outward-directed reactions. They are sociable, energetic, and active. If their emotions of aggression, competition or hostility due to some circumstances were inhibited or suppressed, over time these people become overcome by diseases of the heart and vascular system, such as migraines, high blood pressure, chest pain and a feeling of suffocation (angina pectoris). , heart rhythm disturbances, they are diagnosed with arthritis, hyperfunction of the thyroid gland.
Passives are people with an inward-directed reaction. They are confused, thoughtful and react to circumstances with emotional withdrawal from action, a transition to a state of dependence. They do not want to face the harsh reality and retreat in search of help. If their emotions of aggression, competition, and hostility have been suppressed for a long time, these people may develop bronchial asthma, neurocirculatory dystonia of the hypotonic type, but they are especially prone to diseases of the digestive system, such as stomach ulcers, colitis, constipation or diarrhea.
These two types of people have a lot in common. They have a weak character and increased emotionality. Due to an incorrect assessment of the situation, distorted by an excess of feelings and emotions, they find themselves unable to control themselves and circumstances.
Why are nerves needed and how to live with them?
Nerves are associated with biting nails, queues, and the rude lady from the housing office: “Man, why are you so nervous!” It is also recalled that nerve cells do not regenerate and all diseases are caused by nerves. It's a shame. Heart problems can also result in white coats or even slippers. But at the same time, the heart is a symbol of love. Nerves, on the contrary, are synonymous with the hardships of life. Maybe it's time to change stereotypes? These same nerves aren’t that bad, honestly.
Why are nerves needed?
Of course, nerves can make you nervous, but this is just a side effect of their main job. In fact, they are needed for the body to adequately respond to environmental surprises. For example, when asked to light a cigarette at 3 a.m. on the outskirts of Northern Butovo. Almost all living beings (except perhaps single-celled ones) need to have a good reaction in order not to be eaten and to have something to eat themselves. For this, nature has come up with special cells - neurons - that must perceive external stimuli and transmit a signal throughout the body.
Some simple jellyfish have a simple nervous system: a uniform network of cells that helps the transparent reptile sway more or less purposefully in the waves. If our nervous system were the same, reactions to the world would be simple and unambiguous: you would throw your whole body at a hamburger and at a beautiful girl with the same expression on your face and try to eat them. In order for you to be smart enough to throw the hamburger into the trash can, and to entertain the beauty with an anecdote, the nervous system had to be improved.
If you bite your nails...
And besides, you jerk your leg, drum your fingers on the table, walk around the room during a telephone conversation, crack your knuckles, pick at the tip of your nose, chew on a pen - all this is not a sign of pathology. Doctors call such actions muscle stereotypies. Of course, this indicates nervousness and lack of self-confidence, but it’s too early to see a doctor.
Go to the hospital if you, even with an effort of will, are not able to stop blinking, jerking your head, shrugging your shoulders, snorting and whistling. You have a real tic, or, scientifically speaking, violent hyperkinesis. The most entertaining tics are echolalia and coprolalia. In the first case, a person repeats everything said by other phrases. In the second, he shouts curses.
How are nerves structured?
The nervous system is divided into two parts - central and peripheral. Peripheral - these are long processes of nerve cells united in bundles (nerves). Electricity runs through them. The maximum voltage is slightly higher than 0.1 volts. In the form of such signals, information from the receptors goes to the central nervous system - to the spinal cord and brain. There the signals turn into a complete picture of the surrounding world. In response, the central nervous system sends impulses back to the organs and forces you to act. For example, signals travel along motor nerves to the muscles in order to somehow influence the situation.
Why a hammer?
The hammer, looking menacingly out of the neurologist’s pocket, is not only a stylish replacement for a bud in a buttonhole, but also a diagnostic tool. With its help, the doctor checks reflexes. The most famous among them is the knee, but it is far from the only one. By tapping a person from head to toe and looking into the pupils, a specialist can draw a conclusion about the state of the nervous system. For example, damage to the cerebral cortex changes reflexes - sometimes even those that normally lose relevance in infancy appear.
For example, the oral automatism reflex. Tap your lips with a pencil. We hope nothing happened. But if the cortex loosened its control, your lips would involuntarily stretch into a tube.
Not everything is in your hands
You can move your arms, legs and tongue at will. But try to force yourself to have an erection or dilate your pupil. Only yogis can do this. They can slow your heart rate and regulate your blood pressure. Yogis explain this by the influence of the mysterious Kundalini energy, which lies dormant somewhere at the base of the spine. Scientists believe that yogis most likely hold their breath and, as a result, achieve “exorbitant inhibition” in the respiratory center of the brain, from which the signal to slow down the pulse comes. Be that as it may, in all or most people the autonomic nervous system is responsible for the functioning of internal organs. It functions completely oblivious to the wishes of its owner. Nerves carry signals about the state of the body to the vegetative centers, from where impulses then arrive that correct the functioning of a particular organ. In this case, consciousness does not perceive the incoming signal in any way and cannot influence it. This situation should suit everyone: it’s nice to shift responsibility onto someone else’s shoulders, even if they are the shoulders of your own body.
Hit parade of things that nervous people like to chew
- Pens and pencils.
- Temples of glasses.
- Own nails (fingers).
- Drinking straws or lollipop/ice cream sticks.
- Antennas for mobile or radiotelephones.
According to the Ananova agency, 34% of clerks and bank employees in multinational corporations chew off their pencils and fountain pens before they have time to write on them.
Why are you turning white
The autonomic nervous system consists of two parts - sympathetic and parasympathetic. Their joint work keeps the body in the necessary tone, preventing it from relaxing too much or, conversely, going wild. The parasympathetic system is activated when life is not in danger. It constricts the pupils, slows the pulse and stimulates digestion. The sympathetic one, on the contrary, puts the body on alert. For example, if during a night walk through a cemetery you see a pale figure, you are guaranteed to have a rapid heartbeat, dilated bronchi and pupils. The skin vessels will constrict, sending blood to the muscles, and as a result you will turn white as a refrigerator. A cold sweat will break out on your body to cool you down for the upcoming obstacle course. Even if the ghost turns out to be the watchman Vitya in severe alcohol withdrawal, you are guaranteed several hours of adrenaline.
Hurts? And good
You're still alive, although you're probably not entirely healthy. But he was warned about it in time. Pain sensitivity is one of the most important functions of the nervous system. It’s a little unpleasant, but it’s necessary so that you immediately react to it and pull your hand out of the boiling water.
Nervous prevention
Eat everything . The main vitamin of the nervous system is B1. Its deficiency in our latitudes is quite rare, but as an experiment, you can create vitamin deficiency for yourself using an ascetic rice diet. After some time, you will notice a weakening of your memory, rapid fatigue, and decreased sensitivity in your arms and legs. To avoid this for sure, it is advisable to diversify your diet. Sources of vitamin B1: wholemeal bread, yeast, buckwheat. But vegetables and fruits contain very little of this vitamin.
Track your diabetes . One of the dangerous symptoms of diabetes is disruption of the nervous system. Loss of sensation or, for example, severe pain in the limbs are often the first signs of the disease. If you have a history of diabetes in your family, you are at risk. The development of the disease is promoted by foods rich in carbohydrates, excess weight and high blood pressure.
Kill herpes . The itchy blisters that appear on your lip or in more intimate places are directly related to nerves. The herpes virus lives in neurons, and when for one reason or another the immune system weakens, it travels along the nerves to the surface of the skin. To avoid provoking herpes, avoid hypothermia and severe stress. At the first signs, use acyclovir ointment, and for frequent relapses, use acyclovir tablets (best known as Zovirax).
Keep your back . The health of the nerves largely depends on the condition of the surrounding tissues. For example, the spinal cord and the nerve fibers extending from it become very vulnerable when there is something wrong with the spine. If you regularly carry a Becker grand piano to the 10th floor and back, the intervertebral cartilage can crack and then pinch the nerve root. To prevent this from happening, exercise wisely. Your goal is not records in powerlifting, but strengthening the abdominal and lower back muscles, on which the well-being of the spine depends.
Beware of tunnels . Each joint in the body has small tunnels formed by cartilage and bone. They contain blood vessels, tendons and nerves. For the latter, these are the most vulnerable places. In such a tunnel, the nerve can be very easily compressed or damaged. The danger is posed by the so-called habitual postures. When you pick up a computer mouse, at least occasionally think about the median nerve, which, after the clicking normalized by the Labor Code, becomes very uncomfortable. The result of any tunnel syndrome is pain and numbness. Treatment is surgery.
The most nervous
Napoleon . Some attribute Napoleon's ardor to his background. Corsican, almost a horseman. In fact, the emperor's outbursts of rage can be explained by disorders in the nervous system. It is known that Napoleon stamped his foot very often, especially when he was angry. And while standing, he sometimes swayed from heel to toe.
Hitler . The defeat of the German army had a terrible impact on Hitler. His attacks of nervous irritation intensified: he complained of itchy skin, his collars were pinching and his trousers were slipping down. But the problems apparently began in early childhood: even then, the future dictator often scratched his ears until they bled.
Freud . Throughout his life, the founding father of psychoanalysis scratched his groin when he was nervous. His students, who were looking for sexual connotations in everything, came to the conclusion: Freud had a cult of the phallus and a subconscious fear of castration. That is, the great psychiatrist supposedly checked whether everything was in place. It’s my own fault: if I had come up with a different theory, maybe no one would have noticed.
Dali . The painter's nerves were not all right. Salvador began to frantically twirl the tips of his mustache when he was upset or, conversely, in a state of ecstasy. Sometimes he even pulled out his hair. But strange pictures have little to do with nerves - this is psychiatry.
How they get on your nerves
- Impulses from the retina travel along the optic nerve to the occipital lobe of the brain. There, electrical impulses are transformed into a clear picture of the surrounding world. As you can see, joyless.
- Sounds turn into vibrations of the eardrum, and then into electrical impulses running along the cochlear nerve. In the superior temporal lobe of the cortex, these impulses form sound sensations.
- Olfactory receptors detect molecules of volatile substances. Information along the olfactory nerve reaches a part of the temporal lobe cortex called the hippocampus - after which a sensation of smell will arise in the head.
- The frontal lobes of the cortex come up with suitable phrases for the occasion. Along the hypoglossal nerve, impulses go to the tongue, which voices all this. Can we not print these phrases?
- Movements of the facial muscles are formed in the lower parts of the frontal lobe of the cerebral cortex. The facial nerve sends impulses to the facial muscles, causing them to express emotions.
- In response to stimuli, your brain sends signals to action. Through the spinal cord and the nerves coming from it, they reach the muscles of the arms and legs. In general, nothing good awaits the rat in the near future.
Why bang your head against the wall?
They say that nervous people are out of anger, frustration or irritation...
- tearing out their hair;
- bite elbows;
- climb the wall.
Why such diversity? Scientists provide the answer.
Gently tugging on your hair is a great way to stimulate nerve endings, which can help relieve stress and relax your scalp muscles (tension of these muscles causes headaches). Healthy birds often clean their feathers in difficult situations, while sick and hunted birds sometimes completely tear them out by the roots from excessive zeal. A nervous disorder has been described in humans in which the patient pulls out his own hair. But it doesn't make him any better.
About a third of people (30–35% according to various sources) can bite their own elbow. The rest, as a rule, cannot even reach it with their chin. This is an innate skill; the length of the arms or the training of the jaws have nothing to do with it.
The most universal way to get nervous is to climb a wall. People (except climbers) rarely succeed due to lack of training, but for other creatures (cats, ladybugs, some lizards), climbing onto vertical objects is a universal reaction to stress. Cockroaches, when they are killed, climb along the walls to the ceiling and from there fall to the floor with a nasty rustling sound. Because climbing a wall is ultimately as useless as biting your elbows or tearing your hair. It's just their nerves.
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“All diseases are from nerves, only syphilis is from pleasure!” There can be many objections to this common phrase. Firstly, from pleasure - not only syphilis, any venereologist will tell you the details, and secondly, not all diseases are explained by psychosomatics. Although the term “psychosomatics” will soon be two hundred years old (it was coined in 1818 by a German doctor named Heinroth), great minds still interpret it very differently.
There is, of course, a set of diseases whose psychosomatic nature is (almost!) beyond doubt: ulcerative colitis, hyper- and hypotension, gastritis, asthma, anorexia nervosa. And there is an opinion: “Be less nervous, and everything will pass!” But few people clearly understand what psychosomatic diseases actually are. The two most famous concepts of the origin of these “joys of life” are the theories of Franz Alexander and Sigmund Freud.
Yes, yes, Freud wrote not only about “strawberries”. He called his version of the origin of psychosomatic diseases conversion. The word “conversion” usually means turning something bad, outdated and unnecessary at the moment into something more relevant. Let's beat swords into ploughshares, they say. But during the conversion that Freud spoke about, something else happens: the transformation of bad into even worse: an internal conflict, without resolution, is transformed into certain physiological symptoms.
Please note: the internal conflict is not the conflict between pickles and kefir in your stomach, although the stomach is also inside. This is an intrapsychic conflict, a conflict of unconscious desires and prohibitions. For example, sometimes you really want to throw your boss out the window, beat your husband’s secretary on her painted head, drop everything and go to your aunt, into the wilderness, to Saratov... But these desires are so forbidden that they are not even realized. A person is not able to understand what he really wants, but experiences constant emotional discomfort. Thanks to the transfer from the mental to the physical, this dilemma is resolved, anxiety and restlessness go away.
From Freud's point of view, during conversion a person does not become ill with something random, but in each specific symptom a symbolic representation of what his experiences were associated with. For example, he explained psychosomatic visual and hearing impairments by a reluctance to see and hear the environment.
With the advent of a psychosomatic illness, a person, oddly enough, experiences relief.
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