Psychodermatology and Its Therapeutic Effects

The superficial surface of the body called as skin has its main function as tactile reception, on stimulation of the emotional background there might be a presence of certain type of psychosomatic reactions that tend to cause dermatological changes, this in turn brings about the vast nature of psychodermatology.

Background: Several report study and research have revealed that psychological stress has a huge role in the progression or worsening of a wide range of skin conditions.

Aim: To determine if psychological stress has any role to play in onset or progression of skin related diseases or disorders

Methodology: We conducted a systemic search of the related topics on pubmed, google scholar, Medline and some manual searches were done for the relevant studies and accordingly the articles were selected and reviewed.

Results: As per many researches and studies that were conducted, some prevalent skin disorders caused due to psychological stresses are: dermatitis artefacta, skin hypochondriasis, acne, eczema, psoriasis.

Conclusion: Psychological stress has been linked to the worsening of certain skin conditions. However, due to the difficulties of identifying and quantify Psychologicccal stress, along with issues about the etiologic importance of neuroimmunological findings in skin illnesses, this condition become more worsened.