Hepatitis B

Your liver is inflamed. Not from overwork, not from a single mistake — from a virus that has settled in and will not leave. Hepatitis B can appear acutely and then disappear. But when it becomes chronic, the pathogen stays. It lives in your cells as though it has found a home there. Medicine describes this as viral persistence — the immune system recognises the intruder but cannot fully eliminate it.

The psychosomatic perspective adds a different question: why did your system offer this virus a breeding ground? Not everyone who comes into contact with the hepatitis B virus becomes chronically ill. Many people eliminate the pathogen within a few weeks. The question is not only what entered your body from outside — but what in your inner life created the conditions under which this pathogen could stay.