Tiredness, insomnia, emotional irritability, frequent headaches, poor concentration …… talking about you?

Many people say that life is stressful and fast-paced, these symptoms are becoming more and more obvious, they are sick? But the body does not appear to be a specific lesion.

In fact, you may be suffering from a nervous breakdown!

What factors can lead to suffering from a nervous breakdown? How to self-test? And how to treat neurasthenia?

What is a neurasthenia?

Neurasthenia is in 1831 by Kraus and Most will be included in the medical dictionary a dysfunctional disease, is the body of certain physiological functions occurring temporary dysfunction, in terms of its nature there is no organic lesions.

In 1869, the American psychiatrist Beard considered it to be a series of symptoms caused by excessive tension in work and life, leading to fatigue of the brain or body and over-sensitivity to external stimuli, and considered it to be a “disease of civilisation” caused by rapid industrialisation.

There are many clinical symptoms of this type of disease, and there are often no objective signs of organic damage sufficient to explain the symptoms, and even through medical imaging techniques or laboratory tests no objective basis can be found, so it is said to be a functional disease.

What behaviours indicate that you have a nervous breakdown?

Neurasthenia is a class of diseases caused by vegetative nerve dysfunction, in which the mind is easily excited and the brain is easily fatigued, often accompanied by emotional irritability, sleep disorders, lack of energy and a variety of physical symptoms.

Often manifested as the following symptoms:

Weakness Symptoms

The main manifestation is a sense of fatigue, feeling overwhelmed, inefficient, unresponsive and unable to give your full attention to doing things.

excitatory symptom

The symptoms include a decrease in arousal as well as a persistence of arousal, such as the tendency to get particularly excited when watching some films or variety shows and not being able to get off for a long time.

Sometimes, due to overactive thinking, it is difficult to fall asleep because of involuntary recollections of some episodes or things that one has experienced recurring in the brain. Poor directional thinking about things that need to be dealt with urgently, inability to do one’s best, sensitivity to sound and light.

Emotional symptoms

Patients are particularly prone to mood changes such as worry, agitation, susceptibility to sadness, nervousness and anxiety, frequent complaining, and are prone to blaming others for the cause of their illness or even suspecting that they have an incurable disease.

tension pain

Often, head, neck, back and limbs feel sore and uncomfortable after some trivial matters or light labour.

Sleep disorders

Difficulty in falling asleep, shallow sleep, easy to wake up, dreamy, and lack of a true sense of sleep are common.

Other common symptoms

Head discomfort such as dizziness and headache, cardiac symptoms such as palpitations, chest tightness and shortness of breath, and symptoms of vegetative nerve dysfunction such as excessive sweating, frequent urination, hypogonadism, and irregular menstruation or dysmenorrhoea in women.

If there are three of the above symptoms and with the rest after the reduction, work and study after the tension is aggravated, the course of the delay fluctuations more than 3 months, then you should consider yourself a neurasthenia.

What factors can lead to a nervous breakdown?

There are many different causes of a nervous breakdown:

Lack of sleep

Irregular daily life, excessive brain activity, high concentration may cause sleep deprivation, the body will be easy to be in a state of tension and fatigue, which may lead to neurasthenia in the long run.

dystrophy

If there is partiality, picky eating and excessive dieting, there will often be insufficient absorption of vitamins and proteins and other nutrients leading to malnutrition, thus suffering from neurasthenia.

Due to personalities

The occurrence of neurosis is very closely related to the personality of the individual.

Undesirable personality traits such as sensitivity, impatience, low self-esteem, paranoia, lack of self-confidence, isolation, anxiety and depressive state of the people in the encounter with a number of things, will lead to mental overactivity, it is easy to develop neurasthenia.

Other factors

The disease may also be triggered by the presence of chronic diseases that have not been cured for a long time, or by the occurrence of chronic poisoning, a certain degree of craniocerebral injury, as well as endocrine disorders.

In addition, the occurrence of the disease has a certain relationship with genetic predisposition. People with neurasthenia in the family are more likely to suffer from neurasthenia than normal people.

How do you treat a nervous breakdown?

1、Mental detachment

Mental conditioning is an important measure in the treatment of neurasthenia.

Psychologists often use personalised programmes to help each patient to eliminate psychological concerns, lifting the burden of thought, through directional exercises and strengthen the patient’s self-knowledge, to maintain the patient’s emotional stability, to regulate the patient’s good state of mind, and to improve the ability to adapt to real life, overcome difficulties and setbacks.

2、Cultivate adaptive ability

Encourage patients to participate in social activities, develop their ability to adapt to the society and coordinate public relations, and maintain harmony with the social status quo and the environment in all aspects.

3、Adhere to exercise

Appropriately participate in labour exercises and insist on jogging, walking, tai chi and other sports to enhance physical fitness while relaxing the mood and promoting the transformation of the condition in a positive direction.

4、Keep your mood happy

Often keep a happy mood, can relax the facial muscles, so that the tense mind relaxes and makes a joyful sound. It is conducive to accelerating blood circulation and promoting metabolism.

5、Dietary regimen

Diet should pay attention to the quality, reasonable deployment, regular diet, chewing and swallowing, light is appropriate, moderate supplementation of meat and egg products, avoid partiality, avoid drinking strong tea, coffee, tobacco and alcohol before going to bed.