Bronchitis is a fairly common disease that affects both children and adults. An incompletely cured disease can become chronic or transform into bronchial asthma. Often, the causes of a protracted state, permanent remissions lie in psychosomatic grounds.
It is possible to distinguish psychosomatic bronchitis from an acute form of organic pathology by a number of signs. First, the psychosomatic state can disappear and appear on its own under the influence of various - usually stressful - situations. Secondly, bronchitis of this form looks like a dry cough with spasms, while there is no release of phlegm. Thirdly, any drug attempts to treat psychosomatic cough do not bring any results. Children may also experience pain and a feeling of squeezing in the chest, unreasonable jumps in temperature, a strong dry cough leading to suffocation at night.
Bronchitis, like any other psychosomatic illness, appears under the influence of certain situations in life, under the influence of stress. The formation of a chronic state is influenced by emotions, thoughts, experiences of a person, including those originating in childhood. What specific common reasons can you identify?
Emotions as the basis of psychosomatic bronchitis
A person who does not know how to live and let go of feelings accumulates them within himself. When it comes to negative emotions, this hoarding tendency becomes pathological. In the case of a psychosomatic cough, feelings and emotions literally block the access of oxygen, interfere with breathing. At the same time, there are so many of them that they try to find a way out of the body and consciousness through bronchitis.
The following emotional states are especially common causes of psychosomatic bronchitis:
- anger, anger, aggression;
- resentment;
- various fears, fears, doubts, experiences;
- feeling of hopelessness;
- self-accusation;
- lack of self-confidence and latent panic;
- not previously stated claims also provoke psychosomatic bronchitis.
Problems from the outside world
Psychosomatic bronchitis presupposes a situation when a person, for whatever reason, cannot enjoy life, is unable to “breathe deeply”. Constant stress, any everyday problems, conflicts at work negatively affect a person's condition and can provoke the development of a cough.
If a person is inclined to perceive life in extremely gloomy tones, if any crisis situations for him are not a way to gain some experience, but only difficult moments that must be somehow experienced, then there is a high probability of facing the development of chronic cough.
In childhood, psychosomatic bronchitis can develop on the basis of problems in school, due to difficulties in relations with parents. The child seems to be forced to breathe something bad that his body rejects. A cough in this variant becomes a kind of psychological defense against negative effects. So, for example, if the parents are very strict with the child, often shout at him or severely punish him, gradually the child will begin to develop a state of suffocation during the moments of communication with mom and dad. There is a great risk that psychosomatic bronchitis will quickly turn into the stage of bronchial asthma.
Fear of invasion and loss
Another reason for a psychosomatic cough is the immediate fear that a person will be deprived of what belongs to him, that which is very dear to him and that he is not ready to lose. This can relate to material things, for example, an apartment or high salary, a position at work, or it can extend to relationships with people. For example, if a person is worried that he may lose a childhood friend for any reason, it is highly likely that he will develop paroxysmal psychosomatic bronchitis. A cough of this form is also characteristic in the form of a reaction to the death of a friend, relative, or loved one.
Any territorial conflicts in the family or at work can also become the basis for an exacerbation of the condition.
Family problems
The family microclimate greatly affects the well-being of any person. Many psychosomatic diseases are formed under the influence of family relationships, bronchitis is no exception.
If the situation in the family is constantly very nervous, tense, conflictual, this leads to the psychological impossibility of breathing calmly. In addition, conflicts and quarrels literally block the access of oxygen, while forcing them to breathe abruptly and often. If there is no positive exchange of emotions and energies between people in the family, if there are people in the environment who are used to only taking but not giving anything back, such an environment can provoke the onset of attacks of psychosomatic coughing in both adult family members and children.
Additional reasons for the development of psychosomatic cough
- Too impetuous "run" through life, when there is not enough air. This may be due to the fact that a person is trying to take on excessive responsibility, trying to catch everything and everywhere.
- Inability to relax, constant psycho-emotional stress can result in bouts of bronchitis.
- Excessive pressure from the outside, when a person is forced to agree to something that he does not want to do at all or that he absolutely does not need in life.
- Closed, constrained and cut off from the world people who try to protect themselves from social contacts, often suffer from psychosomatic bronchitis.
- Threat to personal safety.
- Internal disharmonious state.
- Increased suspiciousness, suspicion lead to psychosomatic bronchitis. If a person constantly thinks that he is being laughed at, that he is being discussed, underestimated, then such thoughts gradually begin to cause attacks of suffocation and severe coughing.
