“This study shows that various psychological factors, particularly stress, anxiety and a tendency to push oneself to keep going when ill and then collapse in response, interact with the physical illness in causing IBS,” Moss-Morris told Reuters Health.
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A Clinical review from researchers at King’s College Hospital, London.
Antidepressants and psychological treatments such as hypnotherapy have the potential to help patients with severe irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
The Medical management of patients with irritable bowel syndrome is often unsatisfactory.
IBS is very common, but conventional ‘physical’ treatments often do not work very well, and patients can feel that their symptoms are being ignored, downplayed or misunderstood.
Patients with IBS are more likely to suffer from depression and have ‘abnormal’ behavior patterns including anxiety and somatisation (conversion of an emotional, mental, or psychosocial problem to a physical complaint). This has led to the idea that IBS has a psychological as well as a biological basis and a growing body of evidence supports the use of antidepressants for IBS, write the authors.
Clinical Studies of IBS and Stress
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