Affection is born from contact and various scientific investigations prove how incubator babies recover very soon when, in addition to medical attention, mothers touch, caress and speak to their children (Barrera, 2008).
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In its relationship with emotions, the skin of the face reddens when we are ashamed, turns pale in a situation of fear and shines when we are happy or in love. With regard to the physical health of the person, the skin shows a yellow color when we have liver disease and if we are depressed it shows a grayish tone.
Stimuli known as stressors (Schwarzer and Koo Chon, 1998) put people's minds and bodies into operation and generate different reactions in each human being. We are like a battery and we function through physical, chemical and electrical stimuli. This condition activates a series of systems (nervous, endocrine and immune) and results in a series of changes in the body, both internal and external..
The skin captures, processes and transmits a large number of stimuli that affect us.
The skin is an organ of approximately two and a half square meters in length and weighs about five kilograms (Flint, 2009), with a large number of nerve endings, which allow it to capture: pressure, roughness, pain, heat, cold, roughness, smoothness. In an adult person and reacts with great intensity to external stimuli (an accident, an assault, unpleasant news, a natural disaster) and internal stimuli (when we feel; joy, pleasure, love, hate, surprise, fear, anger and all emotions) or even when we get sick.
What is known today by the name of psychodermatology, brings together a series of specialists where: psychiatrists, psychologists and dermatologists, work in a joint and coordinated way on the balance and well-being of the skin of their patients.
Although the subject is very complex and many aspects of psychodermatology are still unknown. Associations have been found with respect to various skin conditions and their relationship to the personality, emotions, and physical and mental health of those who suffer from them. The connection between the skin and the brain justifies its existence (Santibáñez, 2010).
Urticaria consists of the presence of red and inflamed areas and sometimes with pus (Cepvi, 2009), it produces intense itching and is a psychological reaction to the fantasy of being attacked. People who present these symptoms are generally: passive, fearful, insecure, very sensitive and tend to feel hurt in social relationships.
Those with atopic dermatitis or rash are related to the presence of various disorders: generalized anxiety, obsessive compulsive, post-traumatic stress or panic attacks, or the presence of different types of phobias. Behind this condition are people with a strict control towards their aggressive impulses, which are directed towards their own skin and are constantly releasing adrenaline.
Hair loss or alopecia areata is associated with a loss (Santibáñez, 2010) or grief (separation, divorce, loss of any part of the body, loss of job, retirement, menopause, unemployment) and in its psychological part they generally present features of deep sadness that can lead to a state of major depression.
Psychogenic itching or itching, associated with emotional disturbances or improper handling of aggressive tendencies, with anxiety, obsessive cleaning acts or fear of getting sick, is caused by stress, in its presence of strong doses but also by constant and chronic attenuated doses . The psychological factors involved in stress episodes are related to a complex psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune-cutaneous system mechanism. The nervous system is associated with most dermatological conditions, particularly those with an inflammatory or immunological course (Polleti & Muñon, 2007).
Most of us tend to believe that the shadow is invisible and that it lurks in the corners of our minds. However, those who work regularly with the human body and have learned its language are able to discern the dark silhouette of the shadow in it. The shadow is sculpted in our muscles, in our tissues, in our blood and in our bones. In our body, in short, all our personal biography is recorded (Jung, 1992).
Treatments include psychotherapy, low-frequency pulsed electromagnetic field, anxiolytics, antidepressants, creams, ointments or medications under the supervision of each of the corresponding specialists. Do not forget, the skin reflects our cellular memory and our entire physical and emotional life.
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