Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 22 No. 2, 2010.
Conference paper
DEPRESSIVE DISORDER AND ALOPECIA
Tanja Grahovac
; University Psychiatric Clinic Rijeka, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
Klementina Ružić
; University Psychiatric Clinic Rijeka, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
Dubravka Šepić Grahovac
; Department of neurology, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Croatia
Elizabeta Dadić Hero
; Community Primary Health Centre, Primorsko-goranska county, Croatia; Department of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Psychophysical dermatitis is frequently manifested in patients that suffer from psychiatric illnesses and disorders as well as in patients that suffer from depressive disorders. These diseases occur or worsen after acute stress that may trigger them. Difficulties in expressing feelings or impossibility to verbalise them are connected to somatic diseases. In order to emphasize their importance, we
will present a case of a 58 years old woman who has been suffering from alopecia areata that developed after her husband’s death.
The patient doesn’t function well since then - she is socially isolated, she has lost self confidence and self esteem. As she has realised it was impossible to live like that, she decided to seek psychiatric help.
The patient should be examined through the prism of the interdisciplinary treatment and as an integral structure of the mind and body.
Keywords
alopecia; depression; integrative psychiatry
Hrčak ID:
55807
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2010.
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