This friend must have got each of us. Lot is easy to operate, communicate, fashionable dress, but to listen to her life mercilessly falls asleep her problems, if not to health, so with "karma". Are you willing to share all that she said ten, but sometimes listening open-mouthed ideas that she falls in with enviable regularity. Lifestyle, which in the West is called the new age, has long been typical for girls of the big city. Even our moms went to "fashionable" doctors, and now notorious HLS (healthy lifestyle) has become the norm. However, very increased as the number of "doctors", which the hand of our diseases, and those who, like our friend, suffer a variety of strange and previously unknown diseases. Ask her: "How are you? "and in response you will hear a long list of ailments, the symptoms are too unclear: her fatigue, persistent fatigue, her life is a continuous stress. But she has a clear meaning of life: to find a cure. Unlike described in the classics of hypochondriacs past, studiously medical reference books, she seeks healing of their diseases through various "gurus". It is a New Hypochondriac, the representative of the tribe, the number of which in recent years has increased exponentially.
Their true pharmacy in the midst of herbs and plants as healers, whose services are advertised on the Bulletin Board in the yoga Studio, and family doctors. Ancient Eastern practices, everyone, psycho - and reflexology, visits to the dense healers and experts of Ayurveda "changed life" New Hypochondriacs. They discovered my intolerance to wheat flour, lactose, they ensure that scented candles were "without carcinogenic additives." This is all pure and natural, without additives and oils - cost her quite a lot of money. Whether the result of these amounts and these efforts?
Oh definitely the degree of ill health makes us happy," said one French writer josé Hubert. New Hypochondriacs wholeheartedly agree with this statement (as well as many of us). Today the market of alternative medicine in a developed European country is estimated at 3-4 billion dollars a year. This industry includes a lot of different things, from homeopathic remedies to star doctors (in Britain, for example, is widely known Teresa Hale, the head of the Hale Clinic, doctor Ali (in his list of clients include Prince Charles, Michael Caine and Geri Halliwell), and Dr. Joshi (to his aid appeal Rafe Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sadie frost). The popularity of such physicians is growing, although nobody has yet proved that their miraculous techniques (magnetic therapy, banks? ) bring real help. Our descendants heartily laugh at our attempts to achieve ideal health and well-being 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Quite obviously, this task is kind of impossible.
Focus on your health is not a new phenomenon; in the end, the word "hypochondria" was invented by the ancient Greeks, it meant unpleasant sensations in the stomach and melancholy, which was thought to begin in the field hypochondrium is below the ribcage. But earlier obsession with their health was considered something worthy is that irony (when Peter Sellers, famous hypochondriac, had a heart attack, his friend spike Milligan could not refrain from the insults: "He suffered more than 40 heart attacks before it happened real"). Now to be a hypochondriac is normal.
And it is unlikely to cost you to blame themselves hypochondriacs. In our time every fleeting fear is worthy of consideration. New threats arise every minute: from influenza virus and SARS to scientific reports about the dangers of high heels. We are all chronically suffer from the same illness, anxiety about their health. "Increase in false alarm about the health can be explained by two reasons: the noise and panic for any reason, urged by the Newspapers and TV, and our faith in the so-called miraculous healings," says Arthur Basques, Professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical school.
In General, we become more healthy, and increasingly feel sick. Journalist John Naish collected the most strange disease, generated public consciousness, in an ironic "the Handbook of hypochondriac": it is possible to find such absurd as "the syndrome of narrow trousers" or "syndrome diseased liver from playing Golf. "Since we lived in caves we were constantly on guard, protecting ourselves from everything that threatened our survival, " says Naish. - Living in a civilized society, we should disable the ancient instincts, but the media and pharmaceutical companies come up with new threats to our health, making the state of our fears. They sell us any stories about healthy living, unprecedented disease, and magic potions and no less magical methods of healing. And as a result, the number of hypochondriacs around constantly growing."
This trend can be seen opposite direction: many believe that the influx of new "diseases" in the end will benefit the "imaginary sick." "Massive attack pseudonatural will soon lead to the fact that we will begin to understand that is kind of unfair play, continues Naish. Because all these ridiculous "therapy" convince people that they need some kind of treatment, though often they just pay too much attention to their health".
The phenomenon of "imaginary sick" flourished in the nineties the decade, which coincided with the boom of alternative therapies worldwide. "Zero" has brought new realities, much more severe, and now it has become fashionable (Yes, we admit, however, that for many it comes down to the word "fashionable") to think of others, not themselves. Experts increasingly say that "alternative medicine" is waiting for the imminent crisis. First, in this area there are too many charlatans. "I saw so many "Russian natural healers", which over the years changed their stories, even the names, in order not to lose relevance among newfangled therapies, with a smile says a woman working in this field. And many of my clients end up disappointed in the "eccentric" healers and returned to traditional medicine".
The decline of interest in "alternative practices" is particularly noticeable in the Spa industry, where consumers want to see and feel immediate results. A recent report by the world Association Spa gives actual proof: according to him, customers now prefer classic services - beauty, massage, manicure and pedicure. One of my Spa-dependent friends describes it this way: "Yes I don't want to clean my chakras or analyzed my aura. I don't need my card meridians, and I don't want to "find themselves". All I need is just a massage! ".
That "health centres" has become a very common practice to dig into the patient's heart, annoying to many. I personally have repeatedly been sentenced to a session of psychotherapy, lying on a massage table in one of the well-known clinics in London. "People really love you, Charlotte," the melodiously repeated masseuse, treating my shoulders. I barely waited for the end of the session. At the reception everyone is asked to complete a questionnaire with a long list unceremoniously issues. "You have dry skin? You stress? When was the last time you had sex? It is enough that anyone began to doubt their health, including mental.
Besides this kind of homebrew psychotherapy, which is cultivated newfangled "health centers", hardly able to solve the psychological problems of a person. "Yes, it is very popular right now, " admits noella said Gabriel, Director of procedures center Elemis. - We teach our specialists to be able to listen to; however, they can give professional advice on how to care for themselves, but not how to live. There are boundaries that you cannot pass from a professional point of view".
Noella says Gabriel is convinced that the false methods of treatment comes to an end. "Most customers are not looking for sophisticated techniques, " she says. - People need reliable methods of treatment and results. Already there is no place for pseudonym practices on the basis of Amateur understanding of Eastern philosophy. Customers no longer expect that you will find in Spa the meaning of life".
But if "alternative medicine" losing ground, what will happen to our friend and the rest of New Hypochondriacs? Where should they go? Many experts believe that those who are looking for alternative medicine the way emotions, you will find help in the classical psychotherapy. Professor Places a great deal of research in order to prove that psychotherapy helps to get rid of imaginary diseases. He did 6 sessions of psychotherapy for 102 patients who complain of illness, the symptoms of which are not found official confirmation. Through the year, 57 people there were significant reductions in symptoms of hypochondria.
Kadi of Szymanska, Director of the London centre for combat stress, recommends behavioral (behavioral) psychotherapy: "It helps a person to find ways to cope with your anxiety, to change their behavior". "More and more people from those who went to the Spa for the "inner wholeness", address to the psychotherapist. And it's definitely right! "confirms noella says Gabriel.
So, can be really good old session on the couch with a psychotherapist can be a solution to our girlfriends? Compared to a session of massage with the talks" - of course. In the end, why waste your mental strength to magic crystals? It may be easier to believe in themselves? But listen to this advice herself miss New Hypochondriac is a big question.
Author:
Williams Charles
Source:
Harper's Bazaar
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