In life comes the moment when you need to deal with your feelings, relationships, solve problems related to mental experiences and diseases. The question arises, to which doctor to go - a psychiatrist or psychotherapist? Which experts will help in a difficult period of life?
Psychotherapist - who is he?
Psychotherapist is a doctor who works in small and medium psychiatry with patients who have minor or border problems of the "sincere" character. The psychotherapist is engaged in "spiritual therapy" - heals the word, conversation, disassembles conflict situations with the patient, is looking for the right way out together. An ideal option is considered if the psychotherapist is a specialist in the field of psychology and psychiatry, to accurately determine the depth of the patient's psyche disorder.
Diseases that treat psychotherapist
Patients of the psychotherapist are patients suffering:
- neurosis and psychosis of the middle and light shape;
- harmful habits (tobacocco, alcoholism) and various kinds of dependence (social networks, workolism, increasing, kleptomania);
- depression, insomnia, apathetic state;
- of different kinds of phobias, panic attacks, unfortunate fears and alarms.
Often, people with psychosomatic diseases are treated for a psychotherapist:
- digestive organs (ulcers, colitis, gastritis)
- cardiovascular diseases (hypertension, vegetative-vascular dystonia)
- skin diseases: (psoriasis, dermatitis, allergy)
- breath organs (bronchial asthma, attacks of night choking - sympatheadar crisis)
As a result of the mental state, internal organs and organ systems suffer. Often the patient referring to a specialist does not receive relief, because the disease is psychological.
Psychiatrist - Who is he?
Psychiatrist - a doctor who treats patients with complex mental illness, working in a large Psychiatry. His methods of healing more radical than that of the therapist - a medicine, physiotherapy, certain patients in a hospital. It should well understand mental illness, identify the causes of diseases of the depth of his diagnosis often depends the life of the patient.
Diseases that treats a psychiatrist:
- Age-related disease: senile depression, dementia (dementia).
- Post-traumatic stress-related illness: the military actions, terrorist acts, being in slavery or captivity.
- Neurological disease: severe depression, suicidal thoughts, sexual disorders, neurosis.
- Drug treatment of the disease: drug addiction, alcoholism, smoking.
- Dependencies: gambling, anorexia.
There are diseases, which treats only the psychiatrist - a chronic mental illness:
- schizophrenia
- mental retardation
- mental retardation
- autism
- epilepsy
Often the same disease as the treating psychiatrist and therapist - all depends on the severity and depth of the disease. In some cases, for best results, need to work together with the patient psychiatrist and psychotherapist.
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