Neurosis is a neuropsychic disorder that manifests itself in various psycho-emotional, behavioral and somatic symptoms. It occurs quite often and refers to reversible diseases of the nervous system.
Neurosis makes it difficult to adapt to living conditions and distorts the perception of events. Efficiency decreases, the desire to enjoy life disappears, but a critical attitude to one’s condition remains. As a rule, women are more prone to neurosis, they are more emotional and sensitive. The course of neurosis is long, it does not lead to disability of the patient, but often disrupts the full existence of the patient and his relatives.
Types and symptoms of neurosis
There are three main types of neurosis - neurasthenia, neurosis of obsessive states and hysterical neurosis.
Neurasthenia is the first in prevalence; it is a neurosis of exhaustion or mental weakness. Characteristic manifestations are a combination of increased fatigue with irritability. Patients are prone to tearfulness, emotional instability, rapid mood swings, depression, hypochondria. Often, shortness of breath, pericardial pain, instability of blood pressure, sweating, dizziness, tinnitus, headaches, and libido are disturbing. There is weakness, anxiety, anxiety, impaired attention, memory and learning, tormented by a feeling of dissatisfaction with life. There are problems with sleep - difficulty falling asleep, frequent waking up, lack of vigor in the morning.
Syndrome of obsession. Obsessive can be counting, thoughts, movements (tics, blinking, blinking), doubts, the desire to double-check everything several times. Manifestations increase with emotional stress. Anxiety, inner tension, anxiety, expectation of uncertain and unmotivated troubles join obsessions. Sometimes hypochondriacal syndrome appears, that is, inadequate attention to one’s health, attributing illnesses to oneself. Often emotional disorders are manifested by depressive syndrome, when a sad mood, impaired appetite, problems with sleep and potency come to the fore.
Hysterical neurosis. Vegetative manifestations of hysteria are manifested in the form of cramping, persistent nausea, vomiting, fainting. Movement disorders are characteristic - trembling, tremor in the limbs, blepharospasm. Sensory disorders are expressed by impaired sensitivity in various parts of the body, pain, hysterical deafness and blindness can develop. Patients strive to attract the attention of relatives and doctors to their condition, they have extremely unstable emotions, their mood changes dramatically, they easily switch from sobbing to wild laughter.
All neuroses are characterized by a whole complex of somatic manifestations of psychogenic genesis, as a result of this, patients are often unsuccessfully treated by cardiologists, gastroenterologists, surgeons and other doctors. Very often, neuroses are hidden behind the diagnoses of neurocirculatory dystonia, vegetovascular dystonia, migraine, vestibulopathy.