Functional gastralgia

Psychiatric and psychological examinations of 100 patients (80 females and 20 males) with functional gastralgia (ICD-10 diagnosis F45.31) have been conducted. in all the cases, the disease developed in chronic stress in persons with higher anxiety inclined to mild anxious and depressive reactions. Four stages of the disease development were described: reactive (neurotic) depression, psychosomatic reactions, psychosomatic cycles (mono- and polysystemic) And psychopathization. Development of psychosomatic personality was expressed as hypochondriac type.