Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy

Nowadays, stress, stress-related complaints and behavioral risk factors such as lack of exercise, unhealthy diet and harmful consumption of alcohol and nicotine represent the greatest risk of premature illness and death. Especially among younger people, more than every other heart attack is directly attributable to those risk factors. The situation is similar for strokes, type 2 diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. As current scientific results show, it is possible to improve one's own ability to cope with stress and to release blocked mental resources.By leading a healthy lifestyle, even people with a greatly increased genetic risk of cardiovascular disease can significantly reduce their risks.While most people are aware of their unhealthy lifestyle, they often do not know how to alter it in the long run. Stress-related complaints are often difficult to recognize for those affected and can sometimes be misinterpreted as a physical illness: Typically, stress-related symptoms manifest themselves as unspecific, often physical complaints such as inner restlessness and nervousness, concentration disorders, sleep disorders, muscular tension in the neck area and limb pain, gastrointestinal complaints, chest tightness, shortness of breath, fatigue and quick exhaustion. Most of the time, no clear organic reasons can be found for these complaints. However, they originate in a disturbed balance of stress processing and a lack of access to one's own emotions.

Suggestion: If you are affected by stress-related complaints or have difficulties in managing yourself more healthily, psychosomatic diagnostics and counselling can help identifying the underlying causes of stress-related complaints and barriers to creating a healthier lifestyle. We work out measures with you that support you in making the necessary behavioral adjustments and strengthen your resistance in the long term.

"Our heart reacts very sensitively to all kinds of stress, whether it is emotional or caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. However, this also means that it is possible to influence the heart in a very beneficial way through emotional well-being and a healthy lifestyle and to bring disease processes to a standstill or even reverse them.”