Recently, Lao Wu felt dizzy and dizzy when he woke up in the morning. After going to work, the brain swelling pain is more severe, and after doing a little work, I feel very tired and have no energy. Although I have great enthusiasm and confidence in my work, I have no spirit when I work, and my mind is very uncomfortable, so how can I do a good job? Yesterday was like this, today is still like this, this is not like an accident, is it sick?
The headache continues day by day, and I feel an unspeakable irritability in my heart, and I will get excited and easily angry about a small thing. At night, I can't sleep, and my mind is always thinking about things.
Lao Wu tried his best not to think about it, but he couldn't control himself, so he was overwhelmed with pain. Not only that, but the diet has also decreased, looking in the mirror seems to be much thinner than before, and there is no god in both eyes. What the hell is wrong with this? How did it go on like this? Or go to the hospital and see!
After arriving at the hospital, the doctor asked about the condition, checked from head to foot, checked for a long time, the doctor said: "The physical examination did not find any signs, you are neurasthenia." ”
So what kind of disease is neurasthenia?
Neurasthenia is a functional disease that can be cured
The term neurasthenia was first proposed by the American physician Berd in 1869, who believed that it was a group of symptoms due to excessive stress at work and life, weakened mental work ability and excessive sensitivity to external stimuli, so it was named neurasthenia.
Neurosis is the old name, now unified as neurosis (Neurosis), is a group of mental disorders, including anxiety, depression, phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, somatic form disorders, etc., often accompanied by sleep disorders, patients are deeply distressed, hindering psychological function and social activities, but there is no organic pathological basis that can be confirmed. Most of the course of the disease is prolonged or episodic.
Neurosis is a medical term, but patients are often difficult to accept and are more willing to accept the diagnosis of neurosis. For the sake of ease of understanding, we will explore it further in the form of neurosis below.
Neurasthenia (neuroses) is a functional disorder. What is a functional disease? In medicine, diseases can be roughly divided into two categories: organic and functional.
The so-called "organic" disease refers to a disease that causes structural changes in some organs or tissues of the body due to various harmful factors (such as bacterial, viral or other microbial infections, poisoning, trauma, psychosocial factors, etc.) or changes in the body (such as metabolic disorders, etc.), resulting in corresponding physiological dysfunction.
The so-called "functional" disease refers to a type of disease that causes temporary dysfunction of some physiological functions of the human body due to certain harmful factors (common such as psychosocial factors) without organizational changes. Clinical symptoms of such diseases can be ever-changing, but there are no objective signs that explain the organic damage of their symptoms.
Therefore, the patient has undergone many examinations in the hospital (such as EEG, cerebral blood flow, CT, magnetic resonance, etc.), but none of them have been found, so it is a functional disease.
Neurasthenia is one of the most common functional disorders. Excessive tension in higher neural activity is responsible for the occurrence of the disease. If the cause can be removed in time and properly exercised, this disease can be completely cured.
The "weakened" nerves, like the weakened body, can also be strengthened through proper exercise. The reason why the disease of neurasthenia lingers on some patients for a long time is often due to the lack of timely and reasonable self-regulation, and patients can only better defeat this disease if they have a deep understanding of their symptoms, causes and pathogenesis, so as to learn and master the methods of self-regulation and prevention.
Etiology of neurasthenia
The cause of neurasthenia is still not fully understood, some experts believe that due to excessive nervousness of nerve function and lead to the occurrence of the disease, which involves the social environment, family environment, psychological factors, personality and other aspects.
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Social factors
With the acceleration of the pace of modern life, fierce competition, unemployment, layoffs, mental psychological trauma (such as family disputes, marital misfortune, loss of love, neighborhood tension), work pressure, will make people's spirit too nervous, nerve cell energy loss, psychological load is too heavy, and then neurasthenia, autonomic dysfunction.
Mental work time is too long, the study burden is too heavy, such as major exams are often frustrated, often cause excessive nerve burden, which is also the cause of students' neurasthenia. Mental stimulation and excessive stress can cause disorders of endocrine and autonomic nervous system function.
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Personality factors
Introverted and emotionally unstable, mostly manifested as sentimentality, anxiety, conservatism, poor communication with others, short temper, narrow-mindedness. Self-centered people are most susceptible to autonomic dysfunction.
The main mechanistic change in the disease is the process of intracortical inhibition. When the internal inhibition process is weakened, the excitability of nerve cells is relatively increased, increasing the large consumption of nerve cell energy. Due to the weakening of the inhibition process, the recovery ability of nerve cells is reduced, resulting in a decrease in the energy of nerve cells and an increase in exhaustion, which is manifested as easy to excite and easy to fail.
Autonomic dysfunction occurs due to weakened cerebral cortex function, which affects the regulation of the subcortical autonomic center. Such as palpitations during panic attacks (sympathetic excitement), sweating (parasympathetic excitement) and so on.
Chinese medicine believes that insomnia caused by neurasthenia can be caused by weakness, excessive thinking, panic and anger, work disorders or post-illness weakness.
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Genetic predisposition
In patients with neurosis, genetic factors cannot be ignored, such as sleep disorders with a high tendency to family aggregation.