✓ How can stress negatively impact your health?
✓ What are the main ailments and diseases?
✓ How to recognize symptoms and anticipate diseases getting worse?
✓ What are the psychological and pharmacological approaches?
✓ How to transform stress into well-being by changing culture and habits?
✓ Which are most effective tools for diagnosing stress and somatization disorders?
Most people suffer from diseases of which they do not know the cause, so they follow treatments and take absolutely ineffective drugs.
Even some doctors underestimate this relationship, but prolonged negative stress can trigger disturbances on some of our body's major systems:
- Cardiovascular system
- Respiratory System
- Gastrointestinal system
- Skin system
- Endocrine system
- Immune system
- Urogenital system
- Musculoskeletal system
Some of the typical consequences are:
- Sleep disorder
- Dermatological disorders (chronic urticarial, atopic dermatitis, psoriasis)
- Food problems (anorexia, bulimia, binging)
- Gastrointestinal disorders (painful abdominal esophageal, gastroduodenal, intestinal, functional, biliary, anorectal pain syndrome)
- Cardiovascular disorders
- Disorders of the pain system
- Infertility
- Allergy
- Drug treatments are often doctors' first choice to reduce suffering and discomfort, but relaxation training has also proven effective.
Of the many relaxation techniques, only a few are supported by more experimental demonstrations, as explained in this book.
Culture has a significant psychological, social and economic impact, and can exert an important influence on longevity and the level of satisfaction with life (ie, "quality of life").
New effective tools have been developed to identify any symptoms as early as possible, to initiate treatments and stop the progression of the disease.
It is therefore of fundamental importance to learn how to manage stress and detect risky situations that can have a negative effect on our health.
