It plays an important role in the socialization process from infancy to adulthood, by clearly expressing emotions such as anger, fear, shame and anger, responding to emotional stimuli, providing self-image and self-confidence. Ingram states that the skin is an extension of the mind, therefore it is one of the necessary parts in the evaluation of temperament and personality. The balance of this interaction changes or deteriorates in various dermatological and psychiatric diseases. Dermatology Specialist Dr. Bilge Ateş gave information about the subject.
STRESS CAN TRIGGER SKIN DISEASE
It has also attracted the attention of many researchers that people can react differently to skin diseases in relation to their personalities. The stress susceptibility model has been developed to explain why some people develop skin disease under stress while others do not. Accordingly, in individuals with dermatological disease, the biologically weak/prone organ is the skin, and therefore, skin lesions occur instead of diseases in other systems with psychological problems.
Some researchers, starting from the psychoanalytic discourse developed by S.Freud, explained skin diseases as some psychological conflicts causing somatic symptoms through conversion mechanisms. Inability to receive adequate care in early childhood, which is a critical stage of development, the rejecting mother figure and insufficient tactile stimulus may cause problems in self-perception, body image deterioration and character formation (feeling insecure, restlessness) in adulthood.
SKIN DISEASES CAN IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE
On the other hand, although skin diseases do not threaten life, they impair the quality of life and most of the patients experience psychological and sociological destruction. Many patients who are isolated in social environments develop mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders, social phobia, alcohol and substance addiction, sexual dysfunctions, and dissociative disorders.