Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Psychosomatic Disorders, Mental Disorders Most Often There

Mental health problems are often underestimated even by the clinician in the health sector. Mental health is considered no more important than physical health.

Whereas the World Health Organization (WHO) itself in 2020 projected that depression will be the second most common disease after heart disease and blood vessels.

Somatization and Psychosomatic

Psychosomatic disorders in psychiatric language better known as somatization disorder as part of the umbrella diagnosis of somatoform disorder. The most typical symptoms of somatization disorder is the number of complaints that occur in various organs, especially the stomach, muscles, and most often have complaints of pain.

These symptoms usually last more than 6 months to get a diagnosis remains as a somatization disorder. Patients with complaints like this will usually move the doctor because of 'illness' does not heal.

But it turns out in practice, the diagnosis of somatization disorder can rarely determined in all patients with psychosomatic complaints. Most complaints psikosomatiknya only some or only focus on one of the symptoms such as palpitations, shortness of breath and discomfort in the chest area.

Mental Disorders Stigma


Biospikososial this approach which will see the patient as a whole not just the physical complaints but also whether the complaint is related also to the soul and social environment. Basically all diseases must have biospikososial approach because human beings are biopsychosocial.

For that is important for new doctors to become more skilled in the diagnosis of mental disorders especially related to complaints and psychosomatic disorders.
In the end the ability of general practitioners who will practice in particular will be further honed in diagnosing the condition of psychosomatic complaints are actually very often found in patients who come to primary care with physical complaints. While continuing to remind that a mentally disturbed man is a necessity for human beings with body and soul. sources detik.com

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