Traumatised people think that the world is full of danger and must always be on guard. This faith can have a profound impact on everything people experience. Deep beliefs play a central role and influence the organization of almost all experiences. Some deep beliefs limit what can be experienced.
It is known that each age group has its own register of the severity of disease - a specific distribution of disease according to social and psychological significance and severity.
For children, adolescents and adolescents, the psychologically most difficult diseases are those that change a person's appearance and make him or her unattractive. It is linked to the value system, the setting of priorities available to a young person for whom the highest value is acquired through the satisfaction of basic needs - "the satisfaction of one's own appearance".
Thus, the most severe psychological reactions can cause diseases that are not medically life-threatening. These include all of the teenagers' negative diseases that change their appearance (skin, allergies), mutilations and operations (burns). At no other age is there such a severe psychological reaction to the appearance of boils, pimples, freckles, birthmarks, pallor, etc. in the face.
Adults will find it harder to respond to chronic diseases. It is also linked to a system of values and reflects the adult's desire to meet social needs such as the need for well-being, well-being, independence, independence, etc. It is also a system of values. It is precisely the satisfaction of such needs that can be blocked by the onset of a chronic or debilitating disease.
The second most important group of diseases for an adult are the so-called "shameful" diseases, which usually include sexually transmitted diseases and mental illness. Psychological responses to them are not conditioned by an assessment as a health threat, but by feelings of change in the social status and authority of the sick person when this becomes known to others.
There are groups of people (especially in leadership positions), some of whom are ashamed of the limited career opportunities for heart disease (heart attack).
For the elderly and the elderly, the most important diseases are those that can lead to death. Heart attacks, strokes and malignant tumours are terrible for them, not because they can lead to a loss of working capacity, but because they are associated with death.
It is characteristic that subjective attitudes to the disease are mainly formed by family formation. And there are two opposing family traditions of education for subjective attitudes to disease - "stoic" and "hypochondriac".
In the first, the child is constantly rewarded for his or her behaviour, which is aimed at overcoming illness and disease on his or her own. He is praised if, ignoring the existing pain, he continues to do what he did before his appearance.
In contrast, the "hypochondriac" family tradition aims to form an overrated attitude to health. Parents are encouraged to pay attention to their state of health, carefully assess painful manifestations, and recognize the first signs of disease. In the family, the child gets used to paying attention to the painful symptoms when there is the slightest change in well-being and to looking after others (especially parents, teachers, spouses, etc.).
Family traditions define a peculiar ranking of diseases according to their severity. For example, the most severe ones may not be "objectively" severe, but those from which family members died or were more frequently ill. As a result, the most subjectively significant disease may be hypertension rather than cancer or mental illness.
The typology of disease response used in domestic clinical psychology is based on an assessment of the impact of three factors:
1) the nature of the physical disease itself;
2) the type of personality in which the main component of determines the type of character accentuation;
3) Attitude to the disease in the reference group for the patient.
Similar types of reactions are grouped into blocks.
The first block includes the types of attitude to the disease in which social adjustment is not significantly impaired (harmonic, ergopathic and attracted types).
Harmonious. Sober assessment of the condition without tendency to exaggerate its severity and without the bases to see everything in a gloomy light, but also without underestimating the severity of the disease. The desire to actively contribute to the success of treatment in everything. Do not want others to be burdened with the burden of self-sufficiency. In the event of an unfavourable prognosis in terms of disability, the shift of interests to areas of life that remain accessible to the patient.