Dear Friends...
I read a while ago by a writer who was crossing my timeline. He talked about itching on the soles of his feet. The itching was so unbearable that she had to be hospitalized, hospitalized. All examinations have been carried out, but it is not clear what made the soles of his feet itchy. It turned out that after further investigation, the authors were stressed. Not ordinary stress, but stress that you have felt for years when you hear or see news from someone who has hurt him a lot in the past.
Yes, the effect is very good. Mom, I have to go to a mental hospital in the area. Only then did he realize that the unbearable itching was not due to allergies, but because a heart still ached when he remembered, met, or even heard from someone who had hurt him a lot in the past. So big is the effect of heartache until now.
I remember a similar case in one of my clients while practicing at the puskesmas first. So a mother walks into a psychology consultation room, with a very unsightly facial expression. I can already guess, patients who come here accompanied by nurses must be on a referral from the doctor who examined them, not by themselves. That's why the face doesn't like him.
I started digging into my personal data and making preliminary reports. Then I continued, "What are you complaining about? Is there anything I can help you with?"
The mother immediately replied quickly, "I don't know, miss! I came here because of itching. How strange, the doctor told me to come here. I'm not crazy! I'm sane! It's good!" He says. Stupid! 😂
I smile. I used to be liked by patient doctors. Long story short, I tried to comfort my mother and teach that not everyone who comes to the Psychology Clinic is crazy. The proof, all pregnant women are obliged to come to this clinic on their first visit to the puskesmas. Prospective brides and grooms are required to come here before submitting their documents to the KUA. Finally, the mother's face starts to soften and doesn't use high intonation anymore. Hehe.
After further investigation, it turned out that the mother's itching disease had been felt for years. Some doctors say allergies, but it is not clear what the allergy is. When you say that you are allergic to seafood, it turns out that there are times when the disease recurs, even though you don't eat seafood at all. Already taken to a skin specialist, but from the results of the examination, the doctor also confirmed that his skin was fine. Just plain red from constant scratching. Yet according to the mother, this itching was unbearable. As if there was a path under his skin, or whatever, he was also having a hard time explaining in detail.
He thought that he was being tapped or something related to black magic. But I have tried ruqyah several times and there is no response whatsoever, there is no change if it recurs. Already to traditional medicine, it doesn't matter whatsoever. Must be a desperate mother. She always let it itch all this time. However, in the last few days, the itching really disturbed his daily life. He came to the puskesmas only to ask a doctor for a prescription for itching medication. Eh, instead he was referred to the Department of Psychology. That's the story.
I nodded. Then I asked, "When did this itching first strike, Mom? Has anything unpleasant happened before?"
The mother is silent. Like remembering something. "Maybe it's been 5 years, sis. I don't remember what I ate at that time .."
"Didn't eat what, Mom. But is there anything big that makes you tremble?"
"What is the relationship with my itching disease, how come the question so far?"
At first, my mother always avoided her, didn't want to answer. But finally the mother admitted that 5 years ago that was the first time she learned about her husband's infidelity. The husband whom she loved and trusted for a dozen years, apparently had secretly remarried. It turns out that the mother has always kept this heartache for years, so that the household remains intact and the children still have a good father figure for their child. But either way, his heart still hurt a lot. There are still many who refuse.
Since then, whenever there is news about the wife of her husband's second wife, the mother unconsciously experiences intense itching on her hands. He can scratch until it bleeds, but the itching doesn't go away. Then it subsided on its own as she started to shift her thoughts to other things. But soon it happened again when she and her husband fought. This has continued for the last five years. The stress caused by problems with the husband and wife of both husbands is what always triggers this intense itching.
He told me blankly, but I knew there was a lot of anger he was holding up there. He has never been able to tell anyone all this time to keep his family together. Others have to make sure that their family is okay. When he talked, I studied his hands. When the start came, he kept scratching like it never stopped. But after the matter was addressed, his hand stopped scratching! And he doesn't seem to have noticed this. When I asked again, after being a little relieved to be able to tell a story like this, is it still itching? And the answer is no! He didn't even notice that the itching wasn't as bad as before.
That is, how stress can greatly affect our bodies. And this stress can strike the weakest point in our body, because usually it will be different for each person. Some may feel itchy indistinctly, some feel dizzy, some feel nauseous, and so on. There are those whose blood pressure immediately goes high, some whose heart immediately reacts. For myself, when a lot of stress comes, it will usually attack my stomach. Gastric acid immediately spikes up and causes severe nausea. So ulcers are not only due to eating late, but sometimes the main cause is because of this stress.
When I was in college, there were very stressful times. It even makes me puke just looking at the laptop I took out of my bag. Yes, even though I have done it as straight as possible, I just saw the display of my laptop vomiting immediately! Ha ha ha. Another story, there was a friend of mine who was afraid of the lecturer, when in college my friend immediately had a stomachache! By default, he wants to go to the toilet.
Hopefully this little story can open our understanding, that sometimes there are physical illnesses that have no known medical cause, actually originating from the mind, spirit, and the level of stress you feel. Let us be more vigilant, not only of our physical health but also of our own mental state.
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