El cuerpo doloroso: migraña y depresión

Abstract

The identity of all human being is related to its corporality and is through it who persons identifies itself as individual, or collective thing by means of the meaning to have a body, to be a body and to make body with. In depression and pain the individual can feel threatened its identity and experience a depersonalization, whose intensity is proportional to the severity of those. A fundamental characteristic of the painful experience is the depersonalization that tends to globally catch and to disturb the whole individual. The experience to feel pain is difficult to transmit to others. Depression characterizes by psychomotor slowness and alteration in the temporality, para-depression by weariness and loss of the sense of the things and pseudo-depression by a direct or indirect organic cause of the symptoms. Sometimes the pain helps to that the people feel better their own bodies, maintaining the activity of the identity functions (re-personalization), infrequent phenomenon in serious depressions. In all initial evaluation is indispensable to observe the properties of corporality (to be body, to have a body, and to make body with…) and to orient the anamnesis to obtain a suitable diagnosis (Acta Neurol Colomb 2006;22:262-268).