Can bad psychological factors cause prostatitis?

Chronic prostatitis is a common disease in young and middle-aged men, and its clinical symptoms can cause patients to be irritable, suffer abnormally, and even feel that life is worse than death. It has been found that the fluctuation of clinical symptoms in many patients with chronic prostatitis is associated with abnormal psychosomatic factors, such as excessive fatigue, anxiety, sadness, and fear. Some of the uncomfortable symptoms experienced by healthy men may also be related to adverse factors. The adverse psychological factors mentioned above can cause involuntary contraction of the male pelvic muscles, thus affecting the bladder and urethra, frequent urination, urinary urgency, urinary pain, pain and discomfort in the lower abdomen and perineum, etc.; they can also stimulate the body’s autonomic nervous system, resulting in changes in the secretion of prostatic fluid. Therefore, these men can have symptoms related to prostatitis, but a comprehensive examination is often no obvious abnormality exists. After appropriate adjustments or changes in adverse psychological factors, these symptoms can quickly disappear or significantly reduce the transient abnormality, there is no great clinical significance; but the existence of a long period of adverse emotions can make the patient’s clinical discomfort symptoms persist, so some scholars refer to it as “nervous prostatitis”, which is also an important factor in the triggering of prostatitis. Therefore, adverse psychological factors such as nervousness and anxiety can also cause symptoms of prostatitis and prostatitis. Although it is difficult to quantitatively analyze and compare such factors, various means and measures to eliminate adverse psychological factors are certainly beneficial in preventing the occurrence of prostatitis and effectively treating prostatitis. The key to the treatment of such men lies in the fact that rest and adequate sleep, regulation of the psychological state, elimination of tension, appropriate application of some drugs that regulate the function of the autonomic nervous system, as well as other symptomatic supportive therapies can help patients to eliminate or alleviate their symptoms this morning.