Runny nose is a fairly common symptom of a painful condition. However, far from always a runny nose is only a physiological reaction. From the point of view of psychosomatics, a huge number of people are subject to chronic runny nose that occurs for various reasons. What factors influence its development?
Psychosomatic runny nose is a condition that many people encounter but are not even aware of the true causes of this ailment. Such a runny nose is sometimes perceived as an allergic reaction. In some cases, it can be disguised as a cold, however, usually no additional symptoms are observed.
A runny nose caused by psychosomatic causes can begin abruptly and pass abruptly. Exacerbations in the morning or at night, as well as at moments of increased nervous tension, are typical for it. Often, a psychosomatic runny nose is observed in children. At any age, the condition can not be adjusted when using medications. Or medicines help for a very short period of time. What factors cause the development of a psychosomatic cold?
Main emotions
Among the basic emotional states that are provocateurs for the common cold in adults and children include the following feelings:
- fear;
- resentment;
- sadness or sadness;
- feeling of inferiority;
- jealousy;
- anger and anger;
- feeling of hopelessness;
- feeling of worthlessness or undervaluation.
In childhood, feelings of uselessness, insecurity, and rejection are added to these feelings.
Personal traits affecting the development of a psychosomatic cold
Psychosomatics is typical for sensitive people with a mobile nervous system. Runny nose in the context of psychosomatic causes usually develops in individuals with increased suggestibility, with suspiciousness. People driven and having a hypochondriacal personality are more likely to experience chronic runny nose, aggravated with and without it.
Why does suggestibility and suspiciousness play such a significant role? How is a psychosomatic runny nose formed on their basis? There are very logical answers to these questions.
First, a person from childhood is used to hearing that hypothermia can provoke a cold. To many in childhood, parents said that you can’t walk in cold weather or in the rain without a hood / hat. Otherwise, you can make a runny nose exactly the same way as being in a wet shoe 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 where a person has poor immunity or there are already any disorders 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 inspired person is more likely to believe in such attitudes. They will become fueled by a sense of fear of the disease. The more in childhood a person receives attitudes toward the disease, the more likely it is that, becoming an adult, he will encounter a whole bunch of psychosomatic diseases.
Secondly, suspicious people and hypochondriacs are inclined even to equate banal sneezing to 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 runny nose is a symptom of some serious or incurable disease. Such information is again fueled by a keen sense of fear, due to which psychosomatics escalates. Hypochondriacs and suspicious people are accustomed to react too sensitively even to minimal symptoms, which in their minds are imprinted in a very hypertrophied form.
In both the first and second cases, not only fear will fuel the development of a psychosomatic cold. A person may spoil the mood due to malaise. He can unconsciously take offense at a hostile world, considering it a source of illness, or at himself. Or the feeling of resentment will be replaced by aggression, irritation, anger. In each case, their emotional states will dominate.