Anxiety neurosis: causes, symptoms and treatment features

If you have panic attacks, if you do not understand what their reason is, you should seriously think about your health right now.

Feel

Irritability, constant feeling of fatigue, sharp reactions to simple events, frequent headache, feeling as if something is squeezing the head, as if wearing a helmet or hoop, palpitations, sweating, impaired appetite, sleep disturbances, problems with stool, short temper, constant feeling of anger or, on the contrary, lethargy, constantly bad mood, tightness of the muscles of the neck, shoulders, back, inability to fully breathe (take a deep breath and exhale) and, finally, a constant feeling of fear, anxiety, causeless anxiety - all this with signs of a disease known by doctors of psychologists and psychiatrists as an alarming neurosis.

Terminology

Throughout the 20th century, concepts such as neurosis, anxiety disorder were used by doctors in the event of any condition of obsessive anxiety and depression and were differentiated from “psychosis”. These two types of mental illnesses were distinguished only by the fact that in the first case, patients maintain a connection with reality and rarely display antisocial behavior.

Violations caused by a disease such as psychosis are much more serious. Here there is the impossibility of a correct perception of the real world, gross violations of social behavior and the inability to control their mental reactions. Symptoms of anxiety neurosis are increased general anxiety, which manifests itself in various physiological symptoms associated with the activity of the autonomic (regulating the work of internal organs, blood vessels, glands) nervous system.

Differences between neurosis and psychosis

According to the symptoms of the disease, they vary quite strongly.

At the end of the twentieth century after the conference on the revision of the International Classification of Diseases in Geneva, such an independent disease as anxiety neurosis ceased to exist separately and was included in the definition of anxiety disorder (generalized anxiety disorder). Now, such a definition as neurotic disorders summarizes various categories of disorders:

• Depressive disorders.
• Phobic disorders.
• Psychasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
• Hypochondria disorder.
• Neurasthenia.
• Hysteria.

All of them are considered reversible and are characterized by a protracted course. A clinic is characterized by significantly reduced physical and mental activity, as well as obsessive states, hysteria and a state of chronic fatigue.

Nevertheless, many doctors continue to distinguish this mental illness as a separate one, since this term is more understandable and does not scare patients so much. Explaining how to treat anxiety neurosis is much easier than delving into the complex terminology of psychiatry.

What causes anxiety neurosis

There are no clear reasons for the appearance of this disease, but there are several plausible theories:

• There is a predisposition to have an anxiety state, a neurosis. In this case, the disease can occur at the slightest stress or from the wrong model of behavior.
• Violations of the hormonal system of the body (excessive emissions of the hormone adrenaline) can cause frequent panic attacks, which can lead to mental illness in the future.
• Uneven distribution of the hormone serotonin in the brain can cause symptoms and subsequently develop a neurosis.
• Sigmund Freud also wrote that if "someone suddenly became irritable and gloomy, and also prone to anxiety attacks, you should first ask about his sex life." And indeed, the symptoms of a person who has not reached a discharge (orgasm) after arousal during sexual intercourse is very similar to that described in neurosis.

Most likely, a disturbing neurosis is caused not by one factor, but by a whole series of psychological problems, biological "mistakes" and social factors that influence its development.

It is worth noting that relatives and friends may not notice anything unusual in the behavior of a person suffering from a phobic neurosis. After all, it will not be surprising that the pulse rises if a person enters into whom there are feelings (positive or brightly negative), that a person sweats if there is heat in the street or indoors. Also, many symptoms can be hidden behind the signs of diseases that a person already suffers. After all, it is unlikely that the patient will have only one diagnosis written on the card - an alarming neurosis.

Home treatment will definitely not help here. In the case of a prolonged course of the disease without medical assistance, pathological conditions can occur, such as a panic attack, the desire for complete isolation (the desire to protect oneself from the outside world, the fear of going outside). Various phobias may appear : fear of public transport, open spaces (agarophobia), an elevator ride, and other forms of claustrophobia. Such people often deliberately avoid places where panic attacks occurred, limiting the circle more and more.

Anxious neurosis. Simple form

A simple form of fear neurosis is that it occurs abruptly after an injury (accident, loss of a loved one, disappointing medical diagnosis and the like). A person with a simple form of the disease eats badly, falls asleep heavily and often wakes up, his hands and knees tremble , he feels low pressure, he often goes to the toilet, breathing is incomplete, his mucous membranes are dry, he cannot get his thoughts together and gets confused in the answers . In this case, an alarming neurosis treatment suggests only symptomatic. Over time, all functions will be restored themselves. To speed up the process, you can use herbal medicine, physiotherapy exercises, massage, sessions with a psychotherapist.

Chronic form of fear neurosis

Chronic anxious neurosis in a complex and neglected form is characterized by more pronounced basic and additional symptoms, such as unconscious conversation, mumbling, loss in space, numbness, numbness

Anxiety Neurosis: Symptoms and Treatment in Children

In young children, neurosis can cause anything. If a child is just beginning to learn the world, if it is naturally closed and irritable, if there are any congenital or acquired (for example, birth injuries) diseases, then such a baby can easily have a neurosis of fright. A sharp, unusual sound (especially in those moments when the child is sleeping or is in a calm state), bright light, someone else’s face that appeared unexpectedly, a new pet - everything can cause a strong fright. Older children will definitely remember the scene of a fight, an aggressive person or an accident.

In seconds of fear, the child is likely to freeze and become numb or start to tremble. If fear remains in the memory, then the child may temporarily stop talking, “forget” that he can walk, eat with a spoon, wipe his nose and much more. Often children begin to stutter, bite their nails, and urinate in bed. So manifested in children an anxious neurosis. The symptoms and treatment of this disease are well known to any child psychologist. In most clinical cases, the prognosis of therapy is favorable. All functions that have been impaired are gradually restored, and the child forgets about fear.

In no case should you intimidate children with scary tales, films or characters. If a child over five years old is frightened, then it is worth watching him more closely. There is a high probability that various phobias (obsessive states) can develop from an anxious neurosis.

Treatment

If, after several visits to a doctor, psychiatrist or psychotherapist, an alarming neurosis is diagnosed, the treatment that the doctor will prescribe will most likely be medication. Alone at home, with herbs, compresses, hot baths or with the help of healers that remove spoilage, such a disease cannot be cured. If the problem brought the patient to the doctor, then it is time to entrust the treatment and diagnosis to specialists. Taking pharmacological drugs prescribed by your doctor and psychotherapy sessions in a few months can make life wonderful. Resolving your internal conflicts, changing your attitude to the world around you and yourself, searching for internal problems and ways to solve them in your mind, along with the help of antidepressants, will help prevent possible complications and find harmony.

Maintenance therapy

After treatment, anxiolytics are usually prescribed. They help to consolidate the results of therapy. Also, as a further prevention of neurotic conditions, the doctor will recommend decoctions of herbs (pharmacy chamomile, peppermint, oregano, linden, valerian root, motherwort and others). It is also possible to use light sleeping pills and sedatives.