What Are Psychosomatic Diseases

Is your health problem becoming worse due to a mental or emotional factor? Well, some physical diseases or pains are believed to be caused due to daily stresses and various mental issues that a person may be suffering from. While issues such as lower back pain and high blood pressure have been proven to get worse due to stress, it is difficult to classify diseases as being purely caused by pyschosomatic reasons, a mix of psychosomatic reasons and physical reasons, or only physical reasons. One thing is clear, in many cases, taking care to reduce the psychosomatic factors behind the health issue has brought patients relief, in some cases even curing the problem.

List of Psychosomatic Health Problems and Emotional Factors

Here is a list of some common psychosomatic diseases, and the underlying mental and emotional factors that are known to cause them or make them worse, all arranged in alphabetical order.

• ANEMIA: Not recognizing your value, and feeling weak about your self-worth.
• ARTHIRITIS: Inability to express yourself, and feeling inadequate, like you have been imprisoned.
• CANCER: Having severe hate and/or resentment for another person, but not showing them or expressing it openly. Keeping the hate bottled up, and turning is inwards, almost throughout one's life. 
• COLDS: Indecisiveness. Not making a decision when you need to do so. Feeling sorry for yourself for various reasons, and wishing to delay activity. 
• COLITIS AND ELIMINATION PROBLEMS: Over attachment to something or someone. Holding in communication and not telling someone what they should be told. Not releasing situations.
• DIABETES: Having a selfish attitude. Not wanting to give (money, time, affection etc.), Holding back when it comes to being generous.
• DIGESTIVE DISORDERS: Constant worrying, even about small things. Not letting yourself relax and do other things. This also causes ulcers. 
• EYE DISORDERS: Inability or refusal to see things or people as they really are. 
• HEAD ACHES: Feeling threatened or pressured by the environment in which you are in, usually happens in office. 
• HEART ATTACK: If you are feeling pressured by responsibilities and want to escape from the situation. 
• HEART PROBLEMS: Lack of love. 
• HEARING DISORDERS: Inability or refusal to listen or accept what you hear, or what people are telling you.
• KIDNEY DISORDERS: Condemning yourself. Not forgiving yourself for something you may have said or done. Not understanding self value, and not accepting love. 
• LOWER BACK PROBLEMS: Mental power struggles
• LUNG DISORDERS: Restricted feeling, attitude of feeling loss of freedom 
• MIDDLE BACK PROBLEMS: Apprehensive, fearful, unable to support self. 
• NECK AND SHOULDER TENSION: Carrying other people’s problems and thinking of them constantly. Feeling you have the whole world on your shoulders and lots of problems to solve.
• NERVOUS DISORDERS: Being too demanding of yourself and restrictive. Letting emotions build up and not letting them out.
• PROSTATE DISORDERS: This happens to men who are not appreciating their masculine expression. Sometimes when one feels guilt and/or fear to express an aggressive quality. Also, a feeling of being unproductive. 
• REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS IN WOMEN: Not appreciating the feminine expression. Feeling guilt and/or fear to express the receptive quality. Also, a feeling of unproductivity.
• SINUS PROBLEMS: Restriction in expression. A feeling of being trapped. Being overly sensitive to what others say or do.
• STROKES: Problems with members of the family of origin (parent’s family) 
• THROAT DISORDERS: These usually have to do with using the will. The need to make a decision and delaying in doing so, or not carrying out with the decision.
• ULCERS: Feeling out of control, and not being able to control someone. Wanting to control others and their situations. 

One can get relief from these psychosomatic health problems by trying to solve and work around the underlying emotional/mental cause. For example, if you are suffering from an ulcer, try to find out whom you are trying to control, and stop doing that. Both you and that person will benefit.

After that, you can try some chakra meditation to further heal a friend or yourself. Here is a chart with more information about psychosomatic health problems, the underlying emotional causes behind it and the part of the body affected:

Chart on Psychosomatic Illnesses and Related Emotions

Take a look at this chart of psychosomatic health problems, and check if you continuously talk to yourself in the way mentioned beside each health issue. If you do, it is time to help yourself and change. You could find someone to talk to: maybe a family member, counselor, friend, spiritual person or psychologist. You can also read spiritual articles, to help you solve your mental and emotional problems yourself.