Everybody knows relationship between the emotions and the heart.                   The great variety of expressions that  involves the heart explains the signification of the emotions in its functioning.    

             When we say " my heart it shrank inside of the chest ", we can almost feel the anxiety and the disappointment.     

             In the cases of great happiness, our heart seems " to jump of happiness ", in the fear " it seems to stop " or in the panic we were " with the heart in the mouth ".     

             For these reasons we can  easily notice that the heart is the organ more adapted to attribute the representation of our emotions, because its activity is synonymous of being alive, and one seriates of emotions can be responsible for deep alterations in the heart operation.    

             The most frequent psychosomatic symptoms,  in the clinics and national health clinics of cardiac urgencies are : nervous palpitation, different forms of arrhythmias and feebleness circulatory  (exaustation and weakness), episodic precordial pain, disconfort or pressure in the chest, etc.     

             Although these symptoms represent the patients' great majority  search for a cardiologyst, the diagnosis among the organic disturbances (heart disease) and psychosomatic (functional) of the heart, should not be established before a meticulous clinical investigation of the patient, and a exploration of  the emotional factors that can have contributed in the symptoms disencadiation.    

             Patient who had neurotic  symptoms of long date, develop with the time, serious cardiovascular disease, and some organic diseases of the heart, of small significance and that when added to emotional disturbances, they worsen the clinical symptoms.     

             Concluding,  the interaction among organic factors and your emotion it is quite complex, owing always treat the patient as a whole.    

             The emotional tension is causal factor  of diseases of the heart,  responsible for great part of hospital admition.

Psychosomatic Medicine

Tel: 083-2106-0960

E-mail:corpomentejp@yahoo.com.br

Address:

Psychosomatic Medicine and Cardiovascular diseases             1