Varicose veins - a disease, mainly "adult", which signals a violation of blood circulation. Pathology is very rare in children. But recently, pediatricians have begun to state the ailment in babies, while medicine cannot yet give a clear explanation of the phenomenon. In this article we will talk about psychosomatic varicose veins in both adults and toddlers.
General information
The disease, which is popularly called varicose veins, in medicine is called varicose veins. It is associated with an increase in the lumen of some blood vessels, as a result of which not only their shape changes, but also the blood flow changes, and the functions of the valves suffer. The elasticity of the blood vessels of the lower extremities is impaired. The blood flow rate gradually slows down, which causes blood clots to form. In advanced cases, when the skin begins to suffer from a lack of blood, trophic ulcers begin to develop.
The disease is widespread among women and to a lesser extent in men. The first symptoms of pathology are protruding, swollen veins, leg cramps at night, evening leg swelling, heaviness and even pain in the lower extremities, the appearance of brown spots on the legs below the knees. Among the reasons, evidence-based medicine names impaired blood flow, obesity, a small amount of stress on the legs or excessive stress on them (for example, when standing up). Contribute to the development of varicose veins and chronic constipation, as well as pregnancy and genetic disposition.
Psychosomatic causes
Varicose veins are affected. And in order to understand what psychosomatics is, you need to clearly understand what the metaphysical function of the veins is. Psychosomatic medicine views all blood vessels as channels through which a person can perceive the joy of life. If the blood circulates easily, freely, there are no problems with the veins, then he knows how to rejoice, if problems arise, the reason should be sought in this.
Pay attention to the statistics: among all patients with varicose veins, up to 65% are women. It turns out that they quickly plunge into problems and experience more strongly, which leads to the fact that the joy becomes less and less. But varicose veins mainly concern the lower extremities, and their psychosomatic meaning lies in the desire to move forward. In this way, varicose veins, from the point of view of psychosomatics, is stagnation, unwillingness or inability to move forward with joy, to experience pleasure from life and events.
Psychoanalysts have compiled psychological portraits of patients with varicose veins and found out that problems with leg veins are experienced by people who are chronically unhappy with everything that happens. They do not know how to rejoice in little things, feel irritation and even anger at those who move through life, in their opinion, more successfully.
It is noteworthy that up to 90% of women with varicose veins express dissatisfaction with their husbands, who cannot provide them with financial stability.
Among men with varicose veins, very conscientious representatives of the stronger sex predominate, who constantly torture themselves morally for not providing the proper economic well-being for their relatives, worrying about it. Often, according to psychoanalysts, the starting mechanism in the development of pathology is a feeling of regret that it was not possible to take place in life. At the same time, women, as a rule, experience a heavy burden of responsibility, they feel literally "crushed" by everyday life and problems (on this basis, simultaneously with varicose veins, problems with the thyroid gland and gynecological diseases often develop).
Everyone, even children with varicose veins, which have recently been increasingly encountered in the practice of doctors, is characterized by dissatisfaction with something in their own lives. The child may be dissatisfied with the educational measures of the parents, the school, relations with peers. Adults often begin to suffer such total dissatisfaction if they are forced to go to work that they do not like, if family relationships are painful and difficult.
This can be compared to a large, heavy bag that a person carries on their shoulders. The more a person feels the burden of responsibility, which does not bring a single drop of joy, the more likely he will develop varicose veins.
Some researchers believe that carefully suppressed anger may be a predisposing cause. A person is dissatisfied, but cannot admit it, throw out everything, anger accumulates and one day begins to "bulge out" through the skin, through the veins.
Researchers' opinion
The writer and teacher Louise Hay, who compiled tables of diseases for psychosomatic reasons, argued that varicose veins are the result of a long time that a person spent in a situation he hated, in a state of overload or overwhelmed by responsibilities. Canadian psychologist Liz Burbo, observing thousands of her patients, came to the conclusion that everyone suffering from varicose veins tends to perceive their life as a heavy burden. They regularly use such verbal phrases in their speech as “I carry my cross”, “my burden is heavy”, “my grave sins”, etc.
In principle, these people are very responsible and obligatory, they always put the concept of "must" ahead of the concept of "want", this is what destroys them, because they themselves forbid themselves to be free, free, to go forward easily, without pathologies of the legs. The psychotherapist Valery Sinelnikov, who analyzed the causes of varicose veins with patients at receptions, is inclined to believe that people with such an ailment simply chose the wrong direction in life, literally reached a dead end - at work, in the family, etc.
They are afraid of the future, and therefore subconsciously choose some kind of stagnation - stagnation, which, in their opinion, is good. He gives them the opportunity to slow down the onset of that very "terrible" future. Having received a corresponding disease, they may not go forward with a clear conscience, because they have a good reason - a disease of the legs and blood vessels.
Treatment
Regardless of whether varicose veins have developed on one leg or on both, the psychology of the disease is such that traditional treatment alone cannot be dispensed with. Doctors can prescribe venotonics, prescribe physiotherapy, wear compression underwear, even carry out surgical intervention, but this will not eliminate the psychosomatic problem. That is why there are so many cases around when varicose veins return after treatment.
Only an integrated approach will help to defeat the disease and achieve a stable long-term remission. In addition to ointments and pills, psychotherapeutic methods of correction will be useful for a person even for a surgical operation. The task is to learn to see the joy around, to enjoy even an insignificant little thing - a cup of hot tea on a cold winter evening, a beautiful dawn, the five that the child brought from school. A positive approach needs to be introduced into relationships with loved ones.
