The crazy rhythm of life, which today prevails in large densely populated cities, has a negative quality - it has a bad effect on the health of a working society. Wake up in the morning, have time to pack up, feed the household, put yourself in order and headlong to rush to the metro station, just to not be late for work. Serve a bunch of clients in the office or, having worked a shift behind the machine, in an exhausted state, rush home to, again, have time to do all the household chores, prepare children for tomorrow in the garden or school, tidy up, wash and cook dinner. And so every day, five, and sometimes six days a week. After that, Sunday remains, for which you need to have time to prepare a spring application for your daughter in the garden, help your son with a wall newspaper in school, take the carpet to the dry cleaning service and go to the market for new wallpapers. And then again reinstall the software on the computer in order to be able to get information on the features of the repair in the bedroom, which began and does not end in any way ...
Today, any average resident of a big city can be subject to a rather serious physical and psychological strain, which ultimately often ends in an emotional breakdown.
The concept
The concept of emotional breakdown per se implies the manifestation in a person of such a psychological state, which is the result of being in tension for a long time. Often it is exacerbated by serious complications associated with mental disorders and the nervous system. Simply put, this is a surge of emotions, the fruit of a long and collective process of accumulation of negative feelings, stressful manifestations and negative energy. This is like a climax in the story of constantly being in an exciting and emotionally oversaturated state. And it is important to note that such a pathological process is quite dangerous for human health. That is why it is important not to allow such a plan of situations that provoke the accumulation of negative emotions and the manifestation in the future of what psychology calls emotional shock and a nervous breakdown.
Etymology
In order to understand the etiology of this pathological state of health, it is worth paying attention to the primary source of accumulation of negative emotions. And if we consider this mechanism as a whole, it looks like this: a person gives in to any psychological pressure every day or experiences stress, for example, when meeting a specific person at work, or is subjected to regular repression at home - even moral, even physical.
The emergence of a single provocative situation does not entail an accumulative system of emotional overexcitation as such. That is, if you are afraid of dogs, for example, and you are worried from meeting with a gang of mongrels in one of the lanes on the way to your home - this is a separate situation that happens and is eventually forgotten. But if every day you rush to work and meet this barking pack in the morning and in the evening (given that you have a panicky fear of dogs since childhood), here the degree of your emotional state is at risk of reaching a critical point. As a result, you end up with an emotional breakdown.
Causes
There are many prerequisites for such manifestations. And it can even be not one source of irritation. Add to the same dogs, for example, regular skirmishes with the chief of work, who requires the project from you in the impossible short terms. Or family problems that relate to spouse's violent alcoholism, problems with the childโs health, and systematic lack of funds can be attributed here. Life in such conditions not only cannot be pleasant, it destroys the psycho-emotional background of a person and systematically shakes his nerves, which subsequently affects his psyche, and motor skills, and many other factors of his life.
So, experts identify several basic varieties of possible prerequisites for the occurrence of emotional stress, which later seeks its outburst:
- Troubles at work is one of the common phenomena that, due to some specific subtleties or job specifics, can affect a personโs state in different ways and cause a lot of negative emotions, looking for a way out and often appearing in a breakdown.
- Problems in family life - at home, a person can be subjected to no less, if not more criticism, than from bosses at work. And here it is no longer possible to complain to an even higher management. Here you have to either endure to save the family, or break the marriage, if it comes to long-term spousal addiction, violence or assault. But in this case, an interchangeable prerequisite for nervous self-torture may arise - divorce.
- Divorce proceedings - people get divorced not only because of domestic violence. There can actually be a lot of reasons for this. But the point is that a fairly large percentage of people who are at the stage of divorce are ultimately subjected to the accumulation of negative emotions, self-flagellation, feelings and suffering arising from what is happening. In such an apathetic state, people are often on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
- Cheating on a loved one does not apply to the divorce proceedings because loving people in modern life can live together without being bound by the bonds of an official marriage or the threat of divorce. Moreover, it is not necessary to be at the stage of the divorce process in order to be prone to eternal suspicion, outbursts of violent jealousy, aggressive manifestations or, conversely, depressive. It is worth noting that such manifestations often affect more women. The reason for this is the increased emotionality and sensitivity laid down in the basis of the psychology of the female body by nature.
- Financial instability is another broad category of causes that ultimately give rise to mental breakdown. The constant lack of money in the family is one of the most frequent prerequisites for the emergence of family scandals on this basis, mutual reproaches, and complaints. This leads to a violation of the stability of the emotional background, the accumulation of daily negative emotions in the process of hassles of spouses and, as a result, the release of these negative feelings in the form of a breakdown.
- The illness of one of the family members - the most common cause of emotional stress, or rather it will be called overvoltage, is considered a long process of therapy of the child (children) in the fight against a serious illness. Sometimes, even at a certain moment, it becomes very difficult and bitter for the parent to observe the course of his own babyโs disease. The constant struggle for the life of a loved one - the dearest person in life - all the same searching for funds for treatment, searching for and changing the best doctors one after another, sleepless nights spent in tears and pleas for a speedy recovery - all this is looking for an emotional way out and into the result is manifested in a psychoemotional nervous breakdown.
- Pregnancy - this physiologically special condition sometimes serves as a reason for a separate variety of breakdowns. Too amplitude jumps in the mood of a pregnant woman are explained by an unstable hormonal background, closely related to the emotional.
- Harassment and extortion - this category of external factors that serve as the causes of the emergence of an emotionally unstable state and an accumulation of negative energy, are most often subjected to adolescents. Young girls may experience unhealthy manifestations of sexual interest on the part of educators, employers, or even a parent. While young people often have to face bullying and cruelty by their peers in their teens, this is also a common cause of serious psychological complications. This is not surprising, because such an age is considered as vulnerable as possible, and the psyche is still being formed.
This is not the whole list of possible reasons for the manifestation of emotional imbalance, but here are the most common ones. And in order to prevent such a dangerous phenomenon, looking for a way out, in time, it is advisable to pass a test for psychological disorders in a timely manner.
Symptomatology
Like any other human ailment, this pathological condition manifests itself in certain symptoms. An emotional breakdown can be seen in:
- mental symptoms - this can include manifestations of various phobias, generalized fear, stress disorders, panic attacks, obsessive states, as well as depression and even schizophrenia (patients often try to cope with such symptoms through alcohol or drugs);
- physical symptoms - these include weakened volitional activity or its complete absence, when inhibition of individual instincts (sexual, defensive, eating) occurs, often accompanied by jumps in temperature and blood pressure, fatigue, tachycardia;
- behavioral symptoms - here it is necessary to note the failure of a person to perform certain activities, the inability to restrain anger during communication, voice enhancement, the assumption of insults, choleric and hysterical manifestations.
Risk group
As mentioned earlier, there are some categories of people who are exposed to manifestations of emotional breakdown more often than others. This may be associated not only with age or characteristics of the physical condition, but also with professional activities. For example, the same employees of clinical healthcare institutions and hospitals may be prone to burnout. Medical professionals have a similar situation. The reasons may be total emotional exhaustion, empathy for his work and for himself, absolute indifference to the fate and experiences of patients. As with healthcare providers, burnout syndrome occurs in law enforcement officials. This is not surprising: because of their professional activities, these people often become participants or witnesses to special critical situations in which the psyche is tested for strength.
So, at risk are:
- adolescents;
- parents;
- Pregnant
- health workers;
- law enforcement officers;
- firefighters and rescuers (a category of specialists who are in extreme conditions on duty and are responsible for the lives of others).
Ways to pay off a breakdown
In order to prevent the aggravation of the situation, it is worth making sure of its criticality. To determine the approach of a critical point of emotional stress will help a test for psychological disorders. In fact, there are not so many ways to localize a pathological condition. It:
- self-repayment failure;
- appeal to a specialist psychologist.
In turn, the doctor either prescribes therapeutic procedures, or suggests combating the disease through pharmacological drugs.
Taking action at home
If you feel that you are already on the verge, you need to give vent to your feelings and throw out negative emotions. How to do it? First of all, you need to eliminate the source of irritation. If this is work - take a day off, but rather a vacation. If these are family troubles - go on a trip (for lack of financial opportunity, change the situation, live a few days with a friend in another city). If this is financial insolvency - find something interesting, the ways of extra income today are reflected in the banal freelance. Start making money without leaving your home. In any case, whatever it is, eliminate the source of your frustration. You will see how the accumulated negative is slowly disappearing.
Medical assistance
If you do not find a way out of the situation yourself and feel that your nerves are at the limit, seek emergency medical help from a specialist. In critical cases, one does not have to think about embarrassment. The psychologist will listen to you, give his recommendations, appoint a list of therapeutic exercises in the form of gymnastics and breathing exercises to calm the nervous system. If necessary, he will prescribe you special medications.
Effects
Why is it important to timely localize such pathological manifestations? Because a nervous breakdown can lead to the following unpleasant consequences:
- mental - persistent emotional disorder that develops into severe forms, as well as the threat of schizophrenia;
- physical - digestive problems, manifestations of gastritis, provoking diabetes mellitus;
- behavioral - causing harm to others, suicidal impulses.
Prevention
How to prevent emotional breakdown? Experts give the following recommendations:
- Give vent to negativity and boiling feelings - go to the gym, pool or sign up for the wrestling section. Physical exercises are considered an excellent prevention of not only bodily diseases, but also mental ones.
- Perform replacement of the annoying factor - if the husband brings you to the state of suicidal impulses, find another man. If you are harassed by the bosses at work - this is an occasion to change jobs.
- Find yourself a hobby - a new hobby can occupy your thoughts and fill in all the gaps in the free schedule, you simply will not have time to think about the bad.
- Eliminate dangerous elements - we are talking about the use of alcohol, drugs, psychotropic substances, which are not only not able to drown out and reduce the level of feelings, but also ultimately exacerbate the problem.