Is a sad and weak look hereditary?

Neurasthenia is a very common disease, which is also known as depression, anxiety disorder, and mental headache. Severe cases can greatly affect the patient's digestive function and brain's ability to think. Such patients are easily emotionally excited and have poor sleep. It is generally not hereditary, but is caused by personal psychological problems.

Neurasthenia is a relatively broad term, and it is currently called this way to include some depression, anxiety disorders, tension headaches, insomnia, indigestion, etc.

It refers to the phenomenon of mental excitability and mental fatigue due to long-term tension and pressure, often accompanied by emotional distress, irritability, sleep disorders, muscle tension pain, etc. These symptoms cannot be attributed to brain, physical diseases and other mental illnesses. Symptoms vary in severity and the fluctuations are related to psychosocial factors. The course of the disease is often prolonged.

Symptoms of neurasthenia

Neurasthenia is a common neurological disease. Patients often feel mental and physical deficiency, fatigue easily, low work efficiency, and often have physical discomfort such as headaches and sleep disorders, but no organic lesions are present. The main symptoms of neurasthenia are: ① Easy fatigue. ②Easily excited. ③Sleep disorders. ④Emotional disorders. ⑤Tension pain and autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

Typical symptoms of neurasthenia

The clinical manifestations of neurasthenia patients are complex, with multiple mental and physical symptoms. Symptoms can be summarized into six categories:

(1) Lack of mental power and mental fatigue. Due to the weakening of the internal inhibition process, when subjected to internal and external stimulation, the nerve cells of neurasthenia patients are easily excited and consume too much energy. If this continues for a long time, the patients will show a series of debilitating symptoms: patients often feel lack of energy, listless, unable to use their brains, or have slow brain power, inability to concentrate, memory loss, and reduced work efficiency.

(2) Sensitivity to internal and external stimuli. In daily work and life, general activities such as reading books, newspapers, and watching TV can often be used as a form of entertainment and relaxation. However, at this time, patients with this disease not only cannot relax their nerves and eliminate fatigue, but are extremely excited and cannot help but have a lot of imagination. Past scenes unfold before their eyes. While their eyes are watching TV, their minds are often also "playing movies." Especially before going to bed, the patient should be able to calm down and fall asleep, but he or she can't help but recall and associate with the past, which makes him or her nervous and unable to fall asleep, and he or she is deeply distressed. In addition, some patients are particularly sensitive to the sounds and lights around them, and they become very concerned about changes in their intensity, causing them distress.

(3) Mood swings, irritability, and lack of patience. Stimuli from the internal and external environment are undoubtedly the determining factors that cause and influence people's emotional activities, but they are not the only factors. Why do different people react differently to the same stimuli? This is because humans are the most advanced animals in nature. They are conscious of their spiritual life and have a strong restraining effect. Of course, this restraining effect varies from person to person and is mainly determined by the internal inhibition of the nerves. Patients with neurasthenia, due to weakened internal inhibition, are easily excited when encountering things (stimuli), and thus lack the patience and necessary waiting of normal people.