Hysterical neurosis, if it is he who is discovered, cannot be ignored.
The situation requires treatment and serious correction.
Concepts and definitions
Hysterical neurosis is called severe deformation of the psyche person
Such disorders are usually recorded in persons prone to excessive emotionality.
Impressionable and suggestible people more prone to such pathology. Hysterical neurosis is often found in children with mentally unstable parents.
Doctors say: this pathology is more often diagnosed in women. People who conflict a lot, get into stressful situations, fall into the risk category.
Everything is important - and the general state of health, and psychological atmosphere, as well as the social situation around.
Under hysterical personality disorder implies such a pathology in which a person finds an inexhaustible need for receiving attention.
A person with such a diagnosis is characterized by instability of self-esteem, overestimation of the significance of his gender, feigned behavior, etc.
Hysterical psychosis - This is a psychogenic disorder of consciousness.
At this time, a person is in the heat of passion: his consciousness is narrowed or immersed in fantastic experiences that are not related to reality.
During the period of psychosis, partial or complete amnesia is observed, which is also a marker of altered consciousness.
Hysterical syndrome - These are violations of reversible nature, they occur in some traumatic situations. A distinctive feature of this phenomenon can be considered theatricality, demonstrativeness.
In order to pay attention to hysteroid, he does anything: he lies or distorts the events that are valuable for the environment, speaks out with self-reproaches, exaggerates, etc.)
Causes in men, women and children
Both adults and children with such a diagnosis characterizes demonstrative behavior.
Psychologists believe that the core of such psychological disorders can be considered the problems of childhood.
The feeling of loneliness in the family, not enough attention of the parents, lack of understanding of the basic things - care and love, motherly caress, makes hysteria the only way to attract attention.
In men and women, hysterical neurosis due to:
- loneliness, lack of communication, lack of self-sufficiency;
- the inability to enter into communications, to attract attention in a more constructive way;
- both short-term and long-term stress;
- a situation that reminded some painful story.
Experts say that the cause of hysterical neurosis can be egocentric education of children.
You can talk about it, if parents perceive their child as overvalued, idealizeattributed to non-existent traits.
Everything is subject to the satisfaction of the child: he is in the family. Such children are rarely denied requests. He does not have adequate reactions to the refusal, including to the refusal of strangers. The simplest solution for such a child is demonstrative behavior, manipulation.
Symptoms and diagnosis
Symptoms of this phenomenon quite ambiguous.
Sick more often just simulates this or that ailment.
At the same time, it may seem to an outsider that his head is really splitting or his legs are being taken away.
But if you conduct a study on the devices, it turns out: no changes in organs occur.
Symptoms of neurosis can be represented by:
- hysterical seizures;
- sensitivity dysfunction;
- spasms in the throat - it is really difficult for a hysterical person to swallow;
- speech dysfunctions;
- motor disruptions;
- mental disruption;
- hysterical, nervous laugh.
Hysterical neurosis almost always develops in stages. First, hysterical seizures occur, and the first sign of such a phenomenon may be a nervous laugh.
Abrupt onset and abrupt end peculiar to him. This can be added and physiological symptoms: tachycardia, nerve lump in throat, lack of air, paralysis or convulsions.
As hysteria progresses, problems in the activity of the sense organs can be fixed: blindness (partial), impairment of hearing.
Cannot be ruled out spasms of the esophagus, throat pain, numbness of the legs, pain in the sternum.
Diagnostics holds neurologist. At first, laboratory tests and instrumental studies are not required.
The doctor fixes the pathology by increasing tendon reflexes, spasms in the throat, nervous circuit, trembling of the fingers.
Special psychiatric examination is necessary if a specialist suspects not a hysterical neurosis, but another mental illness.
The patient can offer pass general tests blood and urine, make a cardiogram, ultrasound of the internal organs. CT and MRI - as needed. In addition to the psychiatrist, the patient must be consulted by a cardiologist and a neurologist.
What first aid to provide?
Hysterical fit is associated with demonstrative emotional states. The hysteroid cries, can shout loudly, laughs, he can arch and wring his hands.
Hysterical seizures are not characterized by true paralysis, but by the impossibility of currently moving limbs, making any voluntary movements. It is rather difficult for an outsider to determine: hysteria is or imitation of a seizure.
First Aid Scheme:
- Remove all viewers, as much as possible. At home, ask everyone to go to another room, on the street you just need to ask people to disperse, not to provoke an aggravation of the situation.
- Stop the tantrum as soon as possible - it needs to be done by some sudden action. Surely you have seen in the movies, as one person beats another, in a fit, on the cheek. So really you can do. If you are afraid of physical aggression, take a plate in your hands and break it. It is possible to pour cold water over the isteroid. In short, your action should be sharp, unexpected, impressive.
- After the first action is completed, the patient needs sit in a chair and invite him to lie down. Call a doctor if you are worried about a person in a seizure.
- Before the doctor arrives don't leave a man alone. Offer him water, blankets, in order to hide, but rather strictly: do not show your fear or excitement.
What NOT to do: do not persuade a person to calm down, no need to feel sorry for him and become like him. Isteroidov it only provoke. Be indifferent to manifestations of hysteria, do not show that you became anxious.
Do not hold his hand, do not try to show strength. It's important for him to see that provocation worked.
You yourself do not have to act neurotic. Calmness, composure, consistency - this is what will help you in this case.
Treatment
Therapy is almost always associated with patient resistance - active or passive.
He simply refuses to admit to himself in the existing pathology, he can defiantly shout that he is not big, that everyone is opposed to him.
Such patients are often write complaints to doctorsby accusing them of lack of competence.
The doctor will prescribe a patient certain drugs that should reduce the attacks, reduce their frequency. Along with this, a psychotherapist will work with the hysteroid.
It is very important that a person does not just swallow pills, but understands that something is wrong with him, you need to fight this.
Tell the doctor and about the need to change the lifestyle of the patient: mode, nutrition, other opportunities for the release of energy. The doctor will offer the patient to master certain techniques that will help cope with emotions.
As a medical treatment usually used:
- Herbal Medicines - preformed tablets based on motherwort, valerian, and even hawthorn, peony. These pharmacology products are safe, but not too effective. They are drunk to prevent seizures.
- Tranquilizers. They are usually prescribed for convulsive seizures, hysterical paralysis, and other serious violations. Some tranquilizers provoke addiction, adversely affect the reaction rate.
- Antidepressants, antipsychotics. They are prescribed in the case of severe disorders: for example, anorexia, suicidal attempts, hallucinations, delusions, etc.
The course of therapy is always selected individually. It is important for a psychotherapist to begin treatment as early as possible before the somatic of the disease has been formed.
Effects
If time does not react to the disease, the patient may need hospital treatment.
The condition will progress, the attacks will increase, their manifestation will be more pronounced, bright, and somatics will begin to suffer.
So sick gradually leaves society: he has problems at work, at school, he conflicts with family and friends. Help accepts reluctantly, doctors and psychotherapists do not believe. The road to recovery is long, therefore it is impossible to delay the reaction.
Prevention
So that the disease does not progress and does not worsen, you need to periodically repeat treatment by a psychotherapist.
This will avoid relapses, warn them.
Lifestyle the patient must be adjusted. He must give up bad habitsdestructive eating behavior. The patient is offered to visit more often in the fresh air, to lead an active life, perhaps to go in for sports.
Prophylactic hysteroid prescribed courses of drugs: it is herbal remedies.
Herbal remedies do not have a pronounced therapeutic effect, but with regular use they are soothed.
Hysterical neurosis - this is not a situation that should be called reversible. Doctors say: you should not panic, neither the patient himself, nor his relatives. If you went to a doctor in time and really changed your lifestyle, the chances of forgetting about the ailment are great.
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