How to face the disease?

  Different people have different ways of how to treat their disease. Some people know they have high blood pressure, but they are afraid to measure it and feel bad about it, so they simply don’t measure it. This is called avoiding the disease. Others, who do not have any major diseases, but constantly concerned about changes in their bodies, a mole here, there seems to be a little pain …… and even go around to the doctor.  The former, though, is not good for monitoring diseases and sometimes misses important things. But we all understand that when it comes to bad things that you can’t control, avoid them. The psychological terminology is called “escape”.  For the latter, the general public is not so well understood. Other people are still avoiding the disease, how can there be people who are not looking for a disease?  If you “look up” the history of the patient’s illness, before the physical discomfort (such as insomnia) is obvious, there is often a significant period of time when there is a clear discomfort in life, and it is difficult to get rid of the trouble. The emergence of physical discomfort, especially the worries turn to physical discomfort as the center, which serves to “escape” the role of mental life worries. This is the origin of “no disease looking for disease”.  In fact, this state is also a disease, is often referred to as “neurosis”, and the above briefly described the process of forming this state, pathological psychology is called “psychological conflict deformation”. The harm of this “deformation” is that repeatedly dwelling on the surface symptoms neither solves the physical discomfort, nor helps to solve the psychological adaptation problems in life as the source. This is the path of the “devil” and is more destructive than the first direct escape. It is often destructive to interpersonal relationships because it is not commonly understood.  The condition can be manifested not only by physical symptoms, but also by psychiatric symptoms (e.g., obsessive-compulsive symptoms). What the patient repeatedly tells is the suffering caused by the symptoms and the feeling of being deep in them, without reflecting on the process that led him or her into the difficulty, and having reflected, without actually acting to change it. If you fall into distress and “work” around it, you will only get deeper and deeper into it. Therefore, this is the path pointed by the devil.  When you encounter illness, you have to face it; when you encounter frustration in life, you have to learn to cope with it.