Presentation Information
[SY-71-03]Involvement of Yoga Therapy in Patients with Mental Illnesses
*KAHORI ITO (Sinsapporo Mental Clinic(Japan))
Keywords:
Mental illnesses,relapse,yoga therapy assessment
Mental illnesses often relapse, and treatment often takes a long time. Patients have to live with their condition, but so do their doctors. Doctors try to find the cause to stop the relapse. However, the repetition of relapse may make doctors give up elucidating the cause as something intractable, or attribute it to the patient's personality. The speaker was one of such doctors. In 2019, speaker encountered the concept of yoga therapy and realized that our behavior was a mistake. Yoga therapy was arranged and structured by Dr. Kimura Keishin from the ancient Indian yoga scriptures. It is a method of restoring physical and mental health by providing a yoga therapy assessment and teaching three stages of yoga, such as exercise, breathing techniques, and meditation that are tailored to the individual. Unfortunately, it is not possible to do all of these procedure in daily medical practice in Japan, where consultation time is limited, so the future challenge seems to be to train yoga therapists.This time, the speaker will present a case in which yoga therapy assessment was incorporated into medical treatment and helped the patient recover. By adopting this method, doctors would be able to understand the true suffering and hopes of their patients and offer them the support they need without blindly providing guidance on rehabilitation or adjusting medication. A case was a woman in her 20s with depression.