What are the symptoms of neurosis?

In modern life, people face high-pressure working conditions for a long time, which can easily cause great damage to their mental outlook, and in the long run can lead to mental illness. For example, neurasthenia, neurosis, etc. Among them, neurosis is one of the rarer manifestations of the disease. Let’s take a look at the symptoms of neurosis.

Neurosis is also called neurosis or psychoneurosis. It is a general term for a group of mental disorders, including neurasthenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, phobia, somatoform disorder, etc. Patients feel deep pain and their psychological or social functions are impaired, but there is no verifiable organic pathological basis. The course of the disease is mostly persistent or paroxysmal.

The symptoms of neurosis are complex and varied. Some include headaches, insomnia, and memory loss; others include palpitations, chest tightness, and feelings of fear. Its characteristic is that the emergence and changes of symptoms are related to mental factors. For example, some patients with gastrointestinal neurosis suffer from diarrhea whenever they are emotionally stressed.

1. Clinical symptoms:

(1) Mental fatigue associated with mental excitability is manifested by increased associative recall, decreased mental workload, physical weakness, fatigue, etc.

(2) Emotional symptoms include worry, irritability, tension, etc.

(3) Sleep disorders mainly manifest as insomnia.

(4) Head discomfort, tension headache, feeling of heaviness or tightness in the head, etc.

(5) Visceral dysfunction: bloating, intestinal rumbling, constipation or diarrhea; palpitations, chest tightness, shortness of breath, limb weakness, fatigue, feeling of impending death; low-grade fever; positive skin scratch sign; irregular menstruation in women, spermatorrhea and impotence in men, etc.

The main clinical symptoms are precordial pain, palpitations, shortness of breath or hyperventilation, and a sense of impending death. In addition, there are also symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, sweating, and insomnia.