Psychiatr Danub. 2010 Jun;22(2):293-5.
Depressive disorder and alopecia.
Grahovac T, Ruzi? K, Sepi?-Grahovac D, Dadi?-Hero E, Radonja AP.
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.
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