What is psychosomatic disease?

Psychosomatic diseases, also known as lifestyle diseases, are a kind of diseases in which psychological and social factors play an important role, such as coronary heart disease, hypertension, gastric ulcer, tumor and asthma. The top three diseases with the highest mortality in China can be classified as psychosomatic diseases, namely malignant tumor, cerebrovascular disease and heart disease. Modern people's fast pace of life, great pressure, overeating, unreasonable food structure, smoking, drinking too much, less exercise and air pollution are combined to cause the incidence of chronic diseases to increase year by year, and the onset age tends to be younger.

To prevent psychosomatic diseases, we should not only start early, but also give attention to both psychological and physical aspects. For people with obvious psychological weaknesses, such as irritability, depression, loneliness and anxiety tendency, we should improve their personality through psychological guidance as soon as possible, and use psychological behavior techniques to correct obvious behavioral problems, such as smoking, alcoholism, overeating and too little exercise. For some people with genetic predisposition to psychosomatic diseases, more attention should be paid to strengthening psychological defense. Because psychosomatic diseases have a great influence on individuals, we should prevent them from both psychological and physical aspects.