With relation to infarto acute of the myocardium it was observed that depressive situations characterize the period before the illness where the patient presents its auto-esteem diminished, as well as its natural mechanisms of organic defense. 

             The depression today is related comprovadamente to infarto acute of the myocardium and to other cardiac patologias. 

             The responsible emotions or negative tensions for the desencadeamento are several:  the loss of a wanted being, difficulties in the work or the social conviviality, loss of the partner, a job, etc. 

             Medical studies (Dumbar'& Friedman), affirm that the cardiopath feels difficulty to win the tensions of the life due to its type of personality, being individuals that constantly fight for the success and personal accomplishment, feel difficulty to express directly its aggressiveness, tending to restrain its feelings in particular the anxiety, reveal frequently hasty, running against the proper time. 

             Adding it this type of personality, certain specific unconscious conflicts, we have the desencadeantes factors of the cardiovascular illness of nervous origin.  We conclude, calling the attention for a necessary change position of the cardiologistas and general physicians in the direction to guide these patients the search for a psicoterápico accompaniment who will consolidate its proper therapeutical one, preventing or postponing the relapse of such illnesses, alem to allow exactly understanding the meaning psychological of its illness, helping to alliviate to alliviate it it the anxiety, and stimulating in the search of new forms of boarding of its conflicts or in a ampler direction, to search a new direction of life, that certainly if he extends with the experience of the serious experiences why passed.

Psychosomatic Medicine

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