The definition of the disease concept:
In the German health system (as far as health insurance companies are concerned), psychotherapy as a service presupposes the diagnosis of a mental crisis or illness as well as an indication, i.e. a treatment recommendation resulting from this diagnosis. The diagnosis in turn results from the applying of a certain number of criteria (symptoms). This is where the disease concept is used:
Our health system needs the concept of disease to simplify and standardize communication and thus serve to ensure the quality of medical and psychotherapeutic treatments. By assigning a uniform diagnosis, the fairest possible regulation of the assumption of treatments by the health insurance companies is also to be created (distribution justice). From the perspective of social justice and social law, the concept of illness therefore makes sense. In everyday use, on the other hand, the disease concept often leads to undesirable effects such as simplification, dramatization and stigmatization. It fuels fears and misunderstandings and usually focuses only on a single term (e.g. depression), which, however, cannot claim to sufficiently describe your very individual present life situation.
In my practice for psychotherapy and coaching in Munich and during your treatment, I would therefore like to distance myself from diagnoses and instead support you at the current point of your individual development and life situation.
Symptoms are an expression of our current (and past) life situation and always need to be seen in connection with our living conditions (environment), our personality (psyche) and our body (biology). In addition, our experiences (learning history) play a fundamental role, because they shape our behavior in the long term.
In maintaining and developing your psychological well-being, but also in the long-term improvement of your resilience, the concept of disease does not play a role and should therefore not be important during your treatment.
