Why do I feel weak when I wake up early?

It is very common in daily life to feel tired when you wake up in the morning. This is not only a reflection of a certain disease, but also has a certain impact on people's normal life and work. Therefore, it is particularly important to understand the cause and find scientific and effective treatment methods. Feeling weak when waking up early may be caused by neurasthenia. If you experience any of the symptoms mentioned in the article, you need to seek medical treatment immediately.

1. Feeling weak when getting up early may be a sign of neurasthenia

1. General fatigue, lack of brain 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, general fatigue, listlessness, inability to use the brain, or 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, watching TV, etc. can often be used as a kind of entertainment and relaxation activities. However, at this time, patients with this disease not only cannot relax their nerves and eliminate fatigue, but are particularly excited and can't help but have a lot of imagination; especially before going to bed, they should fall asleep quietly, but they can't help but recall and associate with the past, and their nerves are excited and unable to fall asleep; in addition, some patients are particularly sensitive to the surrounding sounds and lights, and they care about the changes in their strength, which causes distress.

3. Mood swings, irritability, and lack of patience: Neurasthenia patients, due to weakened internal inhibition, are easily excited when encountering things (stimuli), and thus lack the patience and necessary waiting of normal people.

4. Tension pain: Patients with neurasthenia often feel a heavy head, a swollen head, a sense of tightness in the head, or a stiff neck. Some also experience muscle pain in the waist, back, and limbs. The degree of this pain has no obvious relationship with fatigue, and it cannot be relieved even by rest. This is closely related to the patient's emotional tension.

5. Insomnia and nightmares: Neurasthenia patients have decreased internal inhibition in the cerebral cortex, which makes their nerves easily excited. It is difficult for them to cause widespread inhibition diffusion during sleep, making it difficult for them to fall asleep or to fall asleep deeply enough. They are easily awakened or their sleep time is too short, or they have difficulty falling asleep again after waking up. If this continues for a long time, it will inevitably lead to stubborn insomnia.

6. Psychophysiological disorders: For some patients with neurasthenia, their main complaints may not be the five mentioned above, but a group of symptoms of psychological disorders, such as dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, frequent urination, sweating, impotence, premature ejaculation, irregular menstruation, etc., which can easily mask the basic symptoms of the disease.

2. Two major factors causing neurasthenia

Mental stress factors: Many studies have shown that patients with neurasthenia suffer more life events than others, mainly problems in interpersonal relationships, economy, family, work, etc. Among them, phobic neurasthenia is more common. Phobia refers to the patient's unusual fear and tension towards certain objective things or situations, and is often accompanied by obvious symptoms of autonomic neurasthenia. The patient knows that this fear reaction is excessive or irrational, but it still recurs in the same situation and is difficult to control, so that he tries his best to avoid the feared objective objects or situations, affecting his normal activities.

Quality factors: Most researchers believe that the personality traits or individual susceptibility of patients with neurasthenia may be more important for the etiology of neurasthenia, and the genetic influence of parents is mainly manifested as susceptible personality. It is generally believed that the patient's personality characteristics primarily determine the severity of neurasthenia. For example, Pavlov believed that people with weak nervous types or strong but unbalanced nervous types are prone to neurasthenia; experts believe that people with unstable emotions and introverted personalities are prone to neurasthenia. Secondly, different personality traits determine the tendency to develop a specific subtype of neurasthenia.

Experts remind: In clinical diagnosis, the symptoms of neurasthenia are more obvious than other mental illnesses. If you experience symptoms such as general fatigue, mental fatigue, muscle aches, insomnia, palpitations, chest tightness, and shortness of breath, you should take it seriously and go to a psychiatric hospital in time to ensure early detection and treatment.