Psychosomatics in Children: A Warning Bell for Parents

Surely you’ve encountered situations like these:
— In the evening, parents argue, slam doors, shout at each other— the little child gets overwrought, and in the morning they have a fever.
— The kindergarten teacher often scolds and raises her voice at a restless child— and at night the child starts wetting the bed.
— Before every test, a teenager’s stomach begins to hurt.
— A schoolchild is plagued by headaches a couple of days before giving a report to the class.
— If a child has a conflict at school with a teacher or classmates, an arrhythmia begins.

Stories like this, where a child in a frightening and uncertain situation unconsciously triggers a “self-protection mechanism”—an illness—any psychologist will tell you how many. The reason is psychosomatics: the link between the soul and the body. A psychosomatic disorder is a fairly painful condition in which stress negatively affects the work of the entire organism. The nervous system reacted incorrectly—the body gave an answer, and all the “sores” immediately surfaced. Even the ones that previously were not even suspected.

So even seemingly ordinary emotions can become a delayed-action bomb.