Psychosomatic causes of the gastrointestinal tract functional disorders: historical aspects and modern assessment

Abstract

Psychosomatic disorders are becoming increasingly common among neurotic disorders in the practice of doctors of various profiles. The history of studying psychosomatic disorders goes back to the past, and even in ancient times, doctors paid attention to a special group of diseases, the cause of which was related to the mental state of the patient, while complaints were in the nature of somatic diseases. At the present stage, psychosomatic disorders prevail in the practice of internists, as well as obstetricians and gynecologists. Irritable bowel syndrome, as one of the psychosomatic disorders, currently attracts the attention of many researchers. The article presents the results of a study of pregnant women with irritable bowel syndrome and the peculiarities of their emotional response. The aim of the study was to identify the level of anxiety in pregnant women with IBS, depending on the IBS clinical form. The feeling of anxiety was revealed at an equally high level in all subjects in the experimental and control groups. Tension was more pronounced in the patients with diarrhea predominant irritable bowel syndrome, while depressive states were more often detected in the patients with IBS-D and less pronounced in the subjects with abdominal pain.