2023-06-22 11:56:36
If many patients criticize modern Western medicine for its lack of consideration of the feelings of the sick, alternative or complementary disciplines make it possible to open up this space of emotions in order to seek, deep within us, keys that can be prove precious on the road to recovery…
When the doctor validates the emotions
A French doctor would spend an average of one and a half minutes (10% of the duration of the consultation) letting his patient explain the reason for his consultation1. Yet a study conducted in 20202 by Jennifer Cheavens, professor of psychology at the University of Ohio, showed that validate a patient’s feelings with an “I share your concerns” or a nod allows you to better comfort him and open him to more positive ideas.
“ It’s important to help people struggling with depression, anxiety or fear to reconnect with curiosity, love, flexibility and optimism. “and, when they feel understood, these patients are”willing to receive feedback on what might lead them to change “. Thus, sentences of the type “it’s not so bad “, often uttered automatically to reassure, would be counterproductive because perceived as a denial of the emotions felt. To remember, whether you are a doctor or with your loved ones!
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The help of essential oils
The doctor of pharmacy Françoise Couic-Marinier, specialist in aromatherapy, recommends marjoram oil with shells (Origanum majorana), euphoric, in case of sadness and mood swings, petitgrain bigarade (Citrus aurantium) to face the anger and soothe the nervous system, as well as the comforting and sedative Roman chamomile (Chamaemelum nobile) in case of anxiety. Officinal lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) will help soothe nervousness and related ailments (psoriasis, eczema, difficult digestion, etc.) and, when you don’t feel up to it, mandarin petitgrain (Citrus reticulata).
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Long live the dog mood!
While humans can be clumsy in dealing with the emotions of their fellow human beings, animals are sometimes much better at it. Some therapists offer to treat physical or mental disorders through animal therapy. The contact with animals, more instinctiveallows bring our emotions to the surface to better understand and accept them.
L’equine therapy, for example, makes it possible to work on psychological issues related to relationships with others or lack of self-confidence. By pushing the patient to be clear in his requests to the animal, the patient becomes aware that his emotions (shyness, anger, etc.) are felt by the animal, hinder his communication with him, and he learns to manage them.
The dog therapy, appealing to the dogs, proceeds somewhat in the same way. In the United States, dozens of experiments have shown that bringing dogs into contact with prisoners in prisons reduces the violence that reigns there and the risk of recidivism. By learning to train dogs, caring for them or taking them for walks, inmates improve their mental health, emotional control and empathy.
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The “Spirit of Diseases”
Claire Marie, a clinical psychologist who has worked for twenty years in a hospital environment in areas such as addictions, psychiatry and chronic pain, suggests rethink our relationship to illness using testimonials from patients and colleagues with whom she explores the emotional and spiritual aspect of the disease. For this professional who has adopted a shamanic point of view here, for several centuries, “rational” Western science cures “without listening to the needs of the soul” and today meets its limits by refusing to “take the invisible seriously”. “Has a fundamental part of ourselves fallen asleep?” she asks. “How to question the disease to give it its own voice, take the time to know it differently before defining its nature?”, this is what she invites us to discover in theSpirit of Diseases (ed. Guy Trédaniel).
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Music soothes the soul
Because summer remains a good time for free time, why not give yourself a dose of music therapy? Promoting the secretion of dopamine (the hormone of immediate pleasure), oxytocin (the hormone of love and trust) and endorphins (the neurotransmitters of pleasure) and decreasing our levels of cortisol (the hormone stress), listening to music around thirty minutes a day allows lower our blood pressuredecrease the depressive states or relieve symptoms of menopause such as mood disorders.
In patients withAlzheimershe allows to decrease restlessness and boosts memory and memories. By improving our blood pressure and our heart and breathing rates, but also by helping us to better regulate our emotions, music relieves the body while soothing the mind. Something to make you want to live in music.
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Treat the root cause
The emotions felt during childhood have a lasting impact on health in adulthood. Researchers3 have identified five emotions that, felt during adolescence, are linked to better health in adulthood: optimism, happiness, self-esteem, sense of belonging and feeling loved. Another study4 shows thatdifficulties in the family environment during childhood are associated with higher mortality in adulthood. Thus, not waiting to act when an adolescent finds himself in a situation of ill-being seems crucial to give him every chance of having optimal health in adulthood.
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