Can't you sleep enough? In the morning do you wake up completely rested? Do you feel weak, overwhelmed all day? Are you not interested in the opposite sex? Do you look bad? Can't work?
Is it hard for you to think? Go to the therapist soon! Most likely, he will diagnose you with asthenia, or an asthenic condition. Asthenia is a decrease in mental activity in which a person feels constant irritability, mental exhaustion, and many other psychosomatic symptoms. The asthenic state can be caused by both functional and organic causes. The latter include infectious diseases, hormonal problems, viral or oncological diseases that weaken the body as a whole. In this case, treatment should begin with the underlying disease. It often happens that when cured of it, the asthenic condition goes away without additional treatment. However, there are disorders that are not related to the disease.
Functional asthenic conditions
They can be caused not by a disease, but by other causes:
- prolonged exposure to stress;
- a hangover;
- developing depression;
- hard work, frequent overwork;
- pre- or post-infarction condition;
- childbirth;
- sleep disorders associated with the features of the work: shift schedule, change of time zones.
The asthenic condition that develops for these reasons is often called CFS: chronic fatigue syndrome. Unfortunately, many are familiar with this syndrome today. Is such an asthenic condition dangerous? Not always. At the very beginning, like other diseases, it can be cured. You can determine how far the disease has gone by yourself, using, for example, developed by P.P. Maykova and M.G. Damn test, called SHAS: scale of asthenic state. Psychologists always have it. By answering 30 questions, a person will be able to determine how far his disorder has gone.
Asthenic condition: what to do?
This question is often heard by therapists and other doctors. Naturally, in each case, the patient will receive an individual, focused on his condition, response. However, there are general recommendations. First of all, an asthenic state requires observance of hygiene of sleep, labor, and control of one’s own emotions. CFS sufferers are advised to:
- Be sure to undergo an examination in order to diagnose existing diseases in time and begin to treat them.
- Follow the regime: go to bed on time, eat, be sure to walk in the air (preferably also at the same time). Sometimes, to regulate sleep, the doctor prescribes special medications that help restore strength and normalize sleep.
- Regulate mental, mental and physical stress.
- Completely exclude self-medication. In asthenia, sedative tablets and antidepressants do not help.
- If possible, take a vacation.
- Be sure to comply with everything that is recommended by the attending physician. Asthenia, although it lasts a long time, is perfectly cured.