Psychosomatic Medicine

Psychosomatic Medicine and

Cardiovascular diseases 3

             With relation to acute myocardial infarction  it was observed that depressive situations characterize the period before the illness where the patient have its auto-esteem diminished, as well as its natural mechanisms of organic defense.   

             The depression is related today with the infarto acute of the myocardium and  others cardiac illness.   

             The responsible emotions or negative tensions for the illness are several:  the loss of a wanted being, difficulties in the work or the social conviviality, loss of the partner, a job, etc.   

             Medical studies (Dumbar'& Friedman), affirm that the cardiopath feels difficulty to win the tensions of the life due to its type of personality, being individuals that constantly fight for the success and personal accomplishment and feels difficulty to express directly its aggressiveness, tending to restrain its feelings in particular the anxiety, reveal frequently hasty, running against the proper time.   

             Adding these  facts with this type of personality and certain specific unconscious conflicts, we have the  causes of the cardiovascular illness of nervous origin.  We conclude, calling the attention for a necessary change position of the cardiologists and general physicians in  direction to guide these patients to search for a psychoterapist accompaniment who will consolidate your treatment, preventing or postponing the relapse of such illnesses, and allow exactly understanding the meaning psychological of its illness, helping to get over  the anxiety, and stimulating in the search of new forms to solve conflicts or in a ampler sense, a new meaning of life that was expanded  with the comprehension of the serious experiences why passed.