Somatoform disorders:
„concomitant symptoms“ of mental illness

Just as every pill has its side effect, mental illness can have „side effects“. The problem is that an organic disease could often be „hiding“ behind the symptoms. However, this is not known until a doctor has clarified whether it is damage to an organ.

These „side effects“ are called somatoform disorders. The name is composed of the term soma = „body“ and toform = „looks like“. These are mental disorders that look like physical illnesses but have no organic causes.

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„You’re just faking your pain“

This sentence does not testify to compassion and yet those affected hear it far too often. It is wrong to accuse those affected, for example, of „only faking“ pain or „imagining it all“. These patients are in pain – but modern conventional medicine cannot prove the cause on the basis of physical or organic causes.

Psychoanalytically, it is assumed that psychological conflicts are expressed through the body (translation into „body language“), whereby a diffuse fear is usually felt.

Do you suffer from pain and even after a medical examination you cannot explain where this pain comes from?Then get in touch with us

„Nothing is impossible“

Aspiring psychiatrists and therapists hear this sentence again and again during their training.

Whether the throbbing and never-ending headache – which could have another damage as the cause – the never-ending diarrhea, which could also be caused by a gastrointestinal disease, or the eternal back pain, which could indicate an orthopaedic disease – can only be ruled out after a thorough examination.

Whether legs that fail or paralysis on various limbs, whether visual disturbances or very frequent urge to urinate, everything can but does not have to have organic causes. It can also be somatoform disorders. They are usually triggered and maintained by psychological and psychosocial stress.

A medical clarification of possible organic causes, even in the case of new symptoms!

Our experts can help you

The psychiatrists and therapists of our institute are trained to recognize and treat all types of somatoform disorders. Depending on the individual disorder, they will work out the best possible form of therapy for you, discuss it with you and carry it out.

Treatment is possible in both psychotherapy and hypnotherapy.