Hypochondria is often referred to as a manic state: there is a constant feeling of the illness approaching in a person. Naturally, we urgently need to protect ourselves from this feeling. Seeking to eliminate the possibility of the disease, a person always tries to take something. So, having seen an advertisement on television about another medicine, many are running to the pharmacy, believing that it is vitally important for them. In order not to pick up an infection, they constantly carry out preventive work, often unnecessary. All this begins to act not for the benefit, but rather to the detriment of health, further exacerbating the hypochondriacal state.
A person is constantly experiencing fear associated with the manifestation of some disease, which necessarily appears in his body. Hence, a terrible panic, a suggestion about the incurability, the mortality of this disease. Although in fact, all this is groundless. Suspiciousness is the main enemy of the hypochondriac. The closest way to hypochondria is stress, depression, obsession with the disease.
Hypochondria: symptoms.
The first signs of hypochondria: hypersensitivity to pain, increased attention to one's body, deep conviction that even a small scratch can lead to death. And as a consequence, a violation of the state of psychological equilibrium, a blow to the nervous system, and finally, complete apathy to everything that surrounds a person.
Before you do anything to combat this condition, you should definitely consult a specialist doctor in this field. And in any case, do not delay, because hypochondria in the advanced stage will lead to great complications. Before applying the popular methods of getting rid of the disease, you should also consult a doctor who will choose the funds in accordance with the characteristics of your illness.
Hypochondria: methods of getting rid of the disease.
In order not to live in constant fear, it is necessary to understand where everything began. If you want to help the hypochondriac to understand his feelings, you need to understand the reason for his fears. Perhaps he is worried that his relatives have been showing a certain illness for several generations. Try to convince him that stories about hereditary diseases are not always justified, the disease can pass by. If he wants to be convinced of the existence or absence of a hereditary disease, you need to undergo a diagnosis. Modern medicine can detect the disease at an early stage. And most importantly, it is necessary to instill in the hypochondriac that all gloomy thoughts have a property to come true. You need to dig less in yourself, listen less to pain syndromes, and once and for all understand: you want to be healthy - be it. And for this you need to make an effort.
Do not prescribe any medicine. Tablets not only affect the organs, such as the liver and kidneys, but also affect the nervous system. Therefore, give them up. It is best to use non-traditional methods of treatment and folk remedies in the form of tinctures. Well calmed tincture of valerian, tea from mint or lemon balm, collections of herbs elecampane, chamomile, mint. If desired, add honey to the tinctures.
Traditional medicine offers treatment of hypochondria with herbs and medicines to calm the nervous system in order to extinguish fear and experience. You can cook a decoction of the flowers of chamomile asters. Grind the flowers, pour boiling water, let it brew until it cools down - strain. Take 1 tablespoon a day during the day to strengthen the nervous system. Infusion tones well, so do not drink it before going to bed, and at night drink an infusion of mint.
It is beneficial for such a disease agent from the herb Leonurus. Grass the grass, steal for 30 minutes with boiling water. Infusion is used in a brewed form, and it can be diluted with warm water with honey and lemon juice.
The infusion of the lily of the valley soothes. It can be used alone, diluted with water, and together with the infusion of the motherwort.
Seeds of anise and caraway improve blood circulation in the brain. They are useful to add to food, which significantly raises the mood, raises the tone. From anise they make tea and tinctures.
Another popular method by which it is proposed to get rid of hypochondria is cold dousing. This treatment with a double effect: hardening and strong psychotherapy for the whole body.
And finally.
Your recovery will depend on your state of mind, your psychological mood. Morning, start with the phrase: "I am completely healthy. I know this for sure. I am convinced of this. I look wonderful. I am full of strength and energy. There is a healthy spirit in my body. I'm absolutely healthy. " And no hypochondria you are not afraid. And if you still visit a psychologist who will help get rid of endless fears and obsessions about diseases, then you will forever forget about hypochondria.