Hell Iatr 2018; 84: 15-22.
Salioni A-M, Christopoulos P, Zervas I, Mastorakos G.
Nowadays, we know how important is to understand being healthy. Contrary to this, we have to investigate more and more the hidden faces of longterm illnesses and find the reasons of morbidity. The activation of autoimmunity inclines to be increased in contemporary time, not only in Greece, but also globally, without understanding the causes. The systematic erythematosus lupus (SEL) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are, probably, two of the most characteristic examples of up to date chronic autoimmunity diseases. Women are more frequent affected than men in proportion of 3:1, a fact that create changes not only physical and organic, but also psychological. Additionally, there are a lot of chances either in childhood or in reproductive and old one. The psychological morbidity is taking place in most of these diseases, affecting the patients’ behavior and their position against them. Multiple factors are incriminated for their appearance, as fatigue, stress, anxiety, etc. In addition a lot of causes affect their development both at their remission and at their relapse. The depression dominate and is promptly correlated both with the systematic erythematosus lupus and rheumatoid arthritis.