Dr. Claudiu Ionescu, psychiatrist, PhD, university lecturer at the Carol Davila Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest

Online consultations with psychologists and psychiatrists

Topics covered:

What is somatisation?

• Irritable bowel syndrome as a psychosomatic disease
• Do psycho-emotional disorders lead to real changes in the body or they are only in the patient's mind?
• The negative effects of self-medication and informational contagion - searching for health-related answers on the internet.
• Stress, by releasing cortisol and adrenaline, can lead to systemic inflammation in the body.
• Why can stress and anxiety cause physical symptoms in the body?
• How can a doctor tell if a patient's symptoms are of psychosomatic origin?
• How can somatisation be treated? Psycho-pharmacologically or through psychotherapy?
• Can somatisation be completely cured? Somatisation offers the opportunity to listen to our body.
• Personality types prone to somatisation.
• How can we prevent somatisation?
• Somatisations are subtle signals that say that the mind and body are under stress.