Mental disorders associated with cancer

Introduction to mental disorders associated with cancer Cancer refers to a group of diseases in which the body's body cells lose their normal regulatory control, proliferate, and have different degrees of differentiation, and often invade adjacent tissues or metastasize to distant parts. As the incidence of cancer increases, current Has become a frequently-occurring disease and common disease in middle-aged and elderly people. The psychological and neurological disorders associated with cancer patients before and after the onset have attracted more and more attention. basic knowledge The proportion of illness: 0.002% Susceptible people: no specific people Mode of infection: non-infectious Complications: anxiety disorder, nausea and vomiting, depression

Causes of mental disorders associated with cancer

Psychological factors (30%):

The cause of cancer associated with mental disorders has not yet been fully elucidated. The causes of mental disorders in various systems outside the central nervous system are unclear. Considering the psychological factors, cancer patients have many bad personality characteristics before they become sick. If it is over-repressed, it is not good to vent, and after suffering from cancer, it will cause mental and psychological disorders on the basis of the original bad character. In addition, non-metastatic factors caused by cancer, such as cancer, secrete special neurotoxins or hormones, can cause damage to the central nervous system, and Local infiltration of cancer metastasis, such as damage to the central nervous system, is also associated with the occurrence of mental disorders.

Negative emotions (20%):

Long-term, negative emotions can impair hypothalamic function, thereby reducing immune function, neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with cancer, functional emotions mainly caused by psychological mechanisms, cognitive disorders, direct infiltration or metastasis of cancer to central nervous system System; circulatory and metabolic disorders caused by concurrent infections in the late stages of cancer; toxic effects of anticancer drugs are also responsible for neuropsychiatric disorders. Bad emotional factors change the functional state of the central nervous system, causing the brain electric field to continuously produce a short circuit, issuing wrong password commands, causing cell mutations and causing cancer.

Virus infection factor (10%):

The pathogenesis of cancer with mental disorders has not yet been fully elucidated. Genetic, chemical, physical and viral infections are all related to the development of cancer. Many studies have shown that psychological factors play an important role in the incidence of cancer. Animal experiments have shown that Long-term exposure to highly stressed environments, the prevalence of mice vaccinated against oncogenic viruses has increased significantly. Investigations of cancer patients often have a life of intense stress before onset, especially loss and isolation and related emotional stress. Factors such as long-term anxiety, repressed anger, despair, sadness and other negative life events are closely related. In addition, cancer patients have certain personality characteristics, such as sensitivity, suspiciousness, impatience, passiveness, dependence and introversion, etc. Cancer is closely related.

Prevention of mental disorders associated with cancer

Prevention: When the cancer is diagnosed, the patient should be psychologically counseled, and targeted guidance should be given, supplemented by comfort, support and counseling to eliminate the nervousness. Eliminating bad emotional factors can keep the central nervous system function normal and help prevent mental disorders.

Symptoms of mental disorders associated with cancer Complications anxiety disorder nausea and vomiting depression

Due to the decreased immunity of cancer patients, the anti-infective ability and the body's compensatory function are reduced, and the surgical trauma, anesthesia, and hypoxia are poorly tolerated, and serious complications are likely to occur after surgery. The occurrence of postoperative complications of cancer not only brings pain to the patients, but also further damages the body's immunity and anti-infective power, making cancer a viable opportunity for recurrence and metastasis.

Cancer patients not only have to endure the pain of radiotherapy and chemotherapy during the treatment of the disease, but also often suffer from the pain caused by a variety of cancer complications, the most common are nausea, vomiting, hair loss, bone pain, fatigue, depression, treatment Fear and so on.

Symptoms of mental disorders associated with cancer Common symptoms Thinking poor panic attacks Illusion Emotional cancer Restlessness Dementia Anxiety Mental disorder Unconscious

1. Psychological adaptive response: Cancer patients often produce a series of complex psychological reactions, which can be roughly divided into five stages.

(1) Shock and denial period: Most cancer patients have a strong psychological reaction after learning the condition. They were shocked at first, and they were at a loss, and they doubted the doctor's diagnosis and denied cancer.

(2) Indignation period: blaming others, anger, resentment, anger at cancer, think that they are treated unfairly, resentful, and even hostile.

(3) Urgently seeking medical treatment: seeking medical treatment everywhere, seeking God's divination, pleading with God, seeking help for "lifelong Langzhong" or "Spiritual Witch Doctor" for life extension, while others are blindly optimistic, think it is early cancer, but they are spared To die.

(4) Depression: Depression, disappointment or despair, frequent crying, depression, lack of language, disgusting, etc., a recent survey of cancer patients with anxiety and depression, respectively, up to 45% , 48%.

(5) Acceptance period: I know that the death is coming, and I will explain the incident to my family and relatives.

2. Depressive emotions: There is a sense of despair, guilt, worthlessness and disgusting concepts, and some have the ambivalence of "Mingle and Darkness".

3. Anxiety emotions: There may be panic attacks or generalized anxiety disorders, restlessness, and unbearable, difficult to control.

4. Schizophrenic performance: In the process of cancer development, some patients show emotional apathy, lack of thinking, lazy life, and can have hearing, visual hallucinations and delusions.

5. State: There may be unconsciousness, poor orientation, understanding, judgment difficulties and sensory disturbances, as well as speech disorder.

6. Dementia Syndrome: Dementia, memory, computational power, comprehension, and abstract thinking and judgment ability may be impaired when brain function is severely infested.

Examination of mental disorders associated with cancer

A laboratory-positive test result that meets the primary disease.

Have a positive basis for primary disease auxiliary examination.

Diagnosis and diagnosis of mental disorders associated with cancer

Diagnostic criteria

1. There are clear clinical signs and symptoms of cancer, confirmed by laboratory, pathology and imaging examination.

2. There is a clear causal relationship between mental symptoms and cancer.

3. There are obvious adaptive and emotional disorders.

4. There are symptoms and signs of corresponding neurological damage.

5. There is no history of mental disorders before the disease, and those with secondary neuropsychiatric disorders after cancer have practical significance for the diagnosis of this disease.

Differential diagnosis

The mental stress caused by cancer should be ruled out, and the recurrence of the original mental illness such as schizophrenia or affective disorder caused by other life events.

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