Скачать или смотреть My doctor doesn't know what's wrong with me (Medically Unexplained Symptoms)

It may surprise you to know that about 25% of issues that people go to see their doctor about are known as "medically unexplained symptoms"

They just don't make obvious sense and can include things like back pain, fatigue, feeling faint, chest pain, palpitations and stomach problems and many more. They often have psychological roots and associations.

There are some experiences associated with having a lot of medically unexplained symptoms, many stretching back to childhood, such as:

Being ill as a kid (chronic)
Ill parents during childhood
Tough childhood - adversity or abuse
Having certain personality traits

We can't always do much about these issues but we can modify the maintaining factors of medically unexplained symptoms such as:

Physiological factors: this is when some of our key bodily functions and pathways go awry - things like autonomic dysregulation, hormonal and immune dysfunction and metabolic abnormalities
Social: loss of role and medical uncertainty.
Cognitive: symptom focusing and intolerance of uncertainty
Behavioural: avoidance behaviour, ‘all or nothing’ behaviours and poor sleep hygiene.

The rest of the video dials into how we can make sense and manage these types of physical symptoms with a psychological cause.

Thanks for watching. Till next time, stay healthy