The Positive Effect of Psychotherapy in the Treatment of an Erosive Oral and Dermal Lichen Planus Case

Overview

Journal Clin Case Rep

Date 2025 Jan 10

PMID 39790733

Authors

Zana Fuad Noori

Mohammed Khalid Mahmood

Pinar Yaseen Raof

Handren Ameer Kurda

Balen Hamid Qadir

Didar Anwar Abdulrahman

Mohammed Aso Abdulghafor

Mohammed Taib Fatih

Basoz Khalid Hama Noori

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Abstract

Lichen planus (LP) is an autoimmune disease that may affect the oral cavity and the skin, and it has the potential to change to malignancy. In this paper we report a LP case in a 42-year-old male patient in which anxiety and depression were apparently the only possible risk factors of LP. Due to this apparent comorbidity and the risk of not responding well to conventional medication (topical and systemic corticosteroids) or the risk of relapse in the case of ongoing stress, we decided to integrate psychotherapy (without psychotropic drugs) as an adjunct into the management strategy. Psychotherapy sessions, reassuring the patient and stress alleviation, proved to be a very useful alongside the standard corticosteroid medication.

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