A runny nose is a fairly common symptom of a painful condition. However, a runny nose is by no means always a physiological reaction. From the point of view of psychosomatics, a huge number of people are susceptible to chronic rhinitis, which occurs for various reasons. What factors influence its development?
Psychosomatic rhinitis is a condition that many people face, but do not even suspect about the true reasons for such ailment. Such a runny nose is sometimes perceived as an allergic reaction. In some cases, it can disguise itself as a kind of cold, however, usually no additional symptoms are observed.
A runny nose caused by psychosomatic reasons can start abruptly and pass abruptly. For him, exacerbations are typical in the morning or at night, as well as in moments of increased nervous tension. Often, psychosomatic rhinitis is observed in children. At any age, the condition cannot be corrected with the use of medications. Or medication helps for a very short period of time. What factors cause the development of psychosomatic rhinitis?
Basic emotions
The basic emotional states that are provocateurs for the common cold in adults and children include the following options for feelings:
- fear;
- resentment;
- sadness or sadness;
- feelings of inferiority;
- jealousy;
- anger and anger;
- feeling of hopelessness;
- feeling worthless or underestimated.
In childhood, these feelings are supplemented by feelings of uselessness, insecurity, rejection.
Personality traits affecting the development of psychosomatic rhinitis
Psychosomatics is typical for sensitive people with a mobile nervous system. A runny nose in the context of psychosomatic causes usually develops in persons with increased suggestibility, with suspiciousness. People who are led and have a hypochondriacal personality are more often faced with a chronic rhinitis, aggravated with or without it.
Why do suggestibility and suspiciousness play such a significant role? How is a psychosomatic rhinitis formed on their basis? There are very logical answers to these questions.
Firstly, a person from childhood is accustomed to hearing that hypothermia can provoke a cold. Parents told many in childhood that it is impossible to walk in cold weather or in the rain without a hood / hat. Otherwise, you can get a runny nose in exactly the same way as being in wet shoes for a long time or just in the cold. On the one hand, these statements can be true, however, as a rule, only in situations when a person has poor immunity or there are already any violations in the body. In most cases, such attitudes are false, they are designed to protect the child, but in fact they are transformed into psychosomatic disorders. The suggested person is more likely to believe in such attitudes. They will also begin to feed on a feeling of fear of illness. The more attitudes toward illness in childhood a person is, the more likely it is that, as an adult, he will face a whole bunch of psychosomatic illnesses.
Secondly, suspicious people and hypochondriacs tend to equate even banal sneezing with any serious illness. The development of suspiciousness and hypochondria is greatly influenced by the general availability of information. Now you can open any search engine on the Internet, write symptoms and get a sea of answers, among which there may be options that a chronic rhinitis is a symptom of some serious or incurable disease. Such information is again fueled by an acute sense of fear, due to which the psychosomatics is exacerbated. Hypochondriacs and suspicious people are used to overreacting to even minimal symptoms, which are imprinted in their minds in a very hypertrophied form.
In both the first and second cases, not only fear will fuel the development of a psychosomatic rhinitis. A person's mood may deteriorate due to malaise. He may unconsciously take offense at a hostile world, considering it the source of the disease, or at himself. Or the feeling of resentment will be replaced by aggression, irritation, anger. In each specific case, their emotional states will dominate.
What situations form a chronic rhinitis
People who lack care, attention, warmth, love and approval are more likely to experience psychosomatic rhinitis. It is classified as internal tears, as a demonstration of resentment and worries. A person who is unable to cope with their emotions and release them will occasionally encounter a chronic form of the common cold.
If situations arise in a person's life that are disgusting to him, a psychosomatic rhinitis may also appear. It's like a kind of reaction in the form of "I don't want to feel, smell a problem or a certain situation." Such a reaction can also be caused by forced communication with unpleasant people, as well as by any deeds and conflicts.
For children, psychosomatic rhinitis is typical when they lack the care and attention from their parents. Additionally, the child can react with an exacerbation of psychosomatics to the microclimate in the family. If parents often quarrel, if the situation at home is tense, the child will be sick, the runny nose will become chronic and not amenable to conventional treatment.
From the point of view of psychosomatics, the nose personifies self-esteem. If a person has low self-esteem, if he is negatively disposed towards himself or believes that his work or creativity is not appreciated at its true worth, he will face a psychosomatic rhinitis.
A runny nose can become a kind of defensive reaction to any changes in life, to critical or crisis situations. When a person is forced to immediately think about a multitude of cases and problems, his psyche cannot cope with such a load. She hints at the need for rest directly through the cold.
