Psychologists consider neurosis to be the state in which most people live today, especially those living in big cities. After all, it is no secret to anyone that every person is subject to stress to one degree or another. With the constant influence of negative emotions, they gradually accumulate and begin to produce a depressing effect on the functioning of the nervous system.
It is believed that a person should be able to control his thoughts. However, in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the exact opposite is true. Patients stop their movement to new levels of knowledge. They dwell on disturbing thoughts that come to mind, beginning to believe them as facts, forgetting that all this is only a figment of the imagination and has nothing to do with real life.
Description of the disease
How to deal with neurosis? Get rid of the "disease of doubt"(this is what the famous psychiatrist Jean Etienne Dominique Esquirol called this disease in the 19th century) is impossible without knowing the causes of its occurrence.
How to understand that a person suffers from neurosis, because the excitement before the upcoming public performance, the expectation of a responsible meeting or the iron not turned off make almost everyone nervous? But it's one thing if a similar situation does not scroll in the head often, but only as it arises. Another thing is if such moments lead to the fact that obsessive thoughts do not leave a person every day, and it becomes more and more difficult to get rid of them. Such a phenomenon speaks of an incipient neurosis, which over time turns into depression.
What provokes the development of the "disease of doubt"? There are quite a few such situations. For example, hard work in the absence of proper rest. A neurosis can be provoked by a change in climate or place of residence, family proceedings and financial difficulties, as well as dissatisfaction with one's work activity and position in society. This list goes on and on. After all, each person has his own goals and priorities, without reaching which, he begins to experience stress. In addition, the same events are perceived by people in different ways. Someone will take everything to heart, and someone will not attach any importance to the situation that has arisen. At the same time, psychologists note that neurasthenia more often affects the person who, from birth, has a tendency to emotional and physical overload.
"The disease of doubt" sometimes occurs in those people who by naturehave good endurance and strong nerves. The disease overtakes them in cases where stress factors act daily.
In medicine, it is generally accepted that obsessive-compulsive disorder is provoked by two main groups of causes. These are biological as well as psychological factors. The first of them, according to the official, but not yet fully clarified point of view, lie in the failures occurring in the exchange of two hormones, namely serotonin, which is responsible for the level of anxiety in a person, and norepinephrine, which provides an adequate flow of thought.
Genetic mutations can be the cause of obsessive-compulsive disorder. This happens in 50% of cases. Sometimes various illnesses provoke the appearance of disturbing painful thoughts. Among them:
- streptococcal infections;
- traumatic brain injury;
- chronic pathologies;
- an immunological response to a strong pathogen.
Psychological causes in the form of stress or chronic fatigue are rather the reason for the development of neurosis. The prerequisites for the disease are in any case due to biological factors.
Neurosis symptoms
How does the disease manifest itself? Neurosis can be diagnosed by increased anxiety and fear, restlessness and irritability, decreased performance and tearfulness, absent-mindedness and forgetfulness, as well as deterioration in cognitive functions. The patient is constantly in a bad mood, he cannot rest, relax and calm down.
A person suffering from neurosis very often worries, perceivingany changes and news only as negative. It is characterized by a sharp increase in the level of sensitivity and mood lability. If a person begins to develop a neurosis, then literally everything begins to irritate him. He is dissatisfied with bright lights and loud sounds, strong smells and temperature changes. He also reacts negatively to many other factors. In addition to the above examples of psycho-emotional manifestations in neurosis, the physical condition also begins to deteriorate. A person often has headaches and dizziness, appetite and sleep are disturbed. A rarer manifestation of the disease is pain in the chest, abdomen, joints and muscles. Moreover, all of them are observed in the absence of pathologies of systems and organs.
That is why it is so important to start treating the "disease of doubt" in time. How to cope with neurosis and regain a calm life and he alth?
Medicated treatment
How to cope with anxiety neurosis with the help of pharmacological drugs? Anxiety can be eliminated by taking medicines of a certain group, the appointment of which should only be handled by a doctor. This will allow you to choose the most effective remedy that has minimal side effects on the body.
How to cope with neurosis and panic attacks? This patient can help:
- Sedatives. From this group of drugs, as a rule, "Persen" or "Novo-Passit", "Sedasen" or motherwort tincture are selected. Sedatives help relieveirritability and irascibility, as well as prolonged anxiety. The greatest effect can be obtained with the systematic use of the prescribed medication.
- Adaptogens. Among the means of this group, patients with neurosis are most often prescribed tinctures of rose hips, ginseng or eleutherococcus. Such drugs improve the body's resistance and adaptation to external factors. At the same time, taking them allows you to strengthen the nervous system, while at the same time toning the whole body.
- Antidepressants. The most famous drugs included in this group are Amitriptyline and Melipramine. With their help, depressive states, neuroses, anxiety and depression are treated.
- Tranquilizers. Gidazepam, Adaptol and Phenazepam are recognized as the most effective among the funds belonging to this group. These drugs are used for panic attacks, phobias, fears, pronounced feelings of anxiety.
Psychotherapy
Sometimes, even despite the course of drug therapy, the patient again turns to the doctor with such a request: "Help me cope with neurosis." The return of the problem is due to the fact that medicines in most cases can only give a temporary effect. Indeed, in order to get rid of neurosis, a person will need to radically change his attitude towards his anxieties and fears. This is where psychotherapy can help. It is this medical direction that will allow the patient to understand the essence of his problem, in order to then change his attitude towards it. Only then does it become clear howcope with neurosis on your own and stop being afraid.
What is psychotherapy? This is one of the methods of treatment of pathological conditions of the psyche, including neurosis. When using this method of treatment, psychological counseling of the patient is carried out. During the conversation, the specialist aims to solve personal, emotional and other similar problems of a person, which are one of the causes of neuroses. With this method, the patient needs to see their primary care physician regularly, usually weekly.
To eliminate neuroses, one of the varieties of psychotherapy is most often used - cognitive-behavioral. This method allows a person to discover the behavioral and mental attitudes that are the causes of neurosis, and then change them.
Another effective way to treat the "disease of doubt" is complex therapy. It involves the simultaneous use of a medicinal and psychotherapeutic approach.
General recommendations
How to cope with neurosis, if a person for one reason or another cannot turn to a specialist for help? In this case, he will need to solve the problem on his own. If the disease is not treated, then it will negatively affect the state of the body as a whole.
It is especially effective to eliminate the disease in its early stages of development. And for this, a person does not need the help of neuropathologists and psychotherapists at all. It is enough to set a goal and not stop believing in yourself.
Howcope with neurosis on your own? To do this, you must follow simple rules, namely:
- avoid conflicts if possible;
- learn to control your emotions;
- get rid of the emerging negativity with the help of special psychological techniques;
- keep proper nutrition;
- observe the regime of work and rest;
- harden and play sports;
- learn to enjoy simple things, relax and unwind;
- find a hobby;
- do not abuse tobacco and alcohol.
Problem Solving
How to deal with obsessive-compulsive disorder? A person suffering from this ailment must understand that eliminating the disease in five minutes will not work. At the initial stage of treatment, the manifestation of relapses should not be the reason for refusing to use one or another method of eliminating the “disease of doubt”. It will take some time. It will allow you to develop new neurotic skills. In the course of treatment, a person must teach himself to extract experience from any situation first of all, and only then show emotions.
How to deal with neurosis at home? To do this, it is recommended to carry out treatment with the help of auto-training, because subconsciously every person knows better than anyone else how to help themselves recover.
Activity Therapy
How to deal with panic disorder? A person prone to the manifestation of the “disease of doubt” begins to experience stress more and more often. He constantly worries and exaggeratessituation. In this state, adrenaline and norepinephrine begin to flow into his blood. The body responds to such an effect by dilating the pupils, constricting blood vessels, increasing the concentration of glucose in the blood, as well as a rapid heartbeat. That is why classes in sports and gyms will help get rid of neurosis. When boxing a bag, squeezing an expander, etc., the body tenses up and expends all its strength.
What can you advise women who turn to a specialist with the following request: "Help to cope with neurosis"? If training in the gym cannot be carried out due to lack of time or for any other reason, then in this case it is recommended to clean the floors in the house, jump, run, ride a bike or simply fold the pillow and beat it. Swimming in the pool will also be of great help in eliminating neurosis.
Change
How to deal with neurosis on your own? This question often worries women. After all, the “disease of doubt” most often appears due to the daily routine. The same actions are performed by a person all the time. This continues day after day and year after year. As a result, we start to do a lot of things automatically, which finally bothers us.
In this case, psychologists recommend making changes for yourself. For example, re-paste the wallpaper in the house or rearrange it. The most effective method is a vacation, for which a new direction is chosen for a person, as well as trips out of town,where you can be alone with nature. Such techniques will restore peace of mind and get rid of neurosis.
Yoga
How to cope with neurosis and depression on your own? To do this, you can learn yoga exercises. They will work in the same way as a simple switch to an interesting activity that does not allow a person to be left alone with his suffering.
How to cope with neurosis with the help of yoga? To do this, the patient will need to relate to this technique much deeper than just the mechanical implementation of the proposed set of exercises. Otherwise, the energy advance of yoga will end very quickly, and the symptoms of neurosis will return again. To restore he alth, you will have to switch to a new activity.
Yes, yoga can be an effective remedy for getting rid of the "disease of doubt". However, this technique should not be viewed as a magic pill or a special form of distraction. Yoga is a kind of therapeutic technique that contains methods for diagnosing a condition and its correction. It is not knowledge of religious rituals and Vedic texts that will help get rid of neurosis, depression and mental problems. Man must know himself. And then gradually, step by step, he will begin to acquire integrity - physical and mental. But it should be borne in mind that a positive result will come only if regular classes are held.
V. Levy's method
How to deal with obsessive-compulsive disorder on your own? own method forelimination of the problem was proposed by the famous Soviet psychotherapist Vladimir Levi. According to the recommendations of this specialist, anxiety neurosis can be defeated by getting rid of negative emotions. At the same time, in order to quickly relax, you need to strain harder. In such a situation, you should go to a sports club or gym. Here, a person should strain literally every muscle, showing how he knows how to get angry in full. Also for this you can jump and stomp, shout and clench your hands into fists. The most important thing is to do all this to the best of your ability. Thus, all nervousness will be squeezed out through muscle tension. After that, you can feel an improvement in mood.
It should be borne in mind that this method does not always work with protracted neuroses. However, in case of a sudden temper, it works flawlessly.
Making the right decision
How to cope with neurosis and depression? To do this, you need to find a way out of, as it may seem to the patient, an impasse. A person who has been overcome by neurosis is able to reflect on the solution of the problem that has arisen, while creating dozens of possible answers. Moreover, the more of them, the more irritation appears in the patient, the more he is lost and afraid to make the wrong choice.
In this case, psychologists recommend a simple method. A person should take a blank piece of paper and, sitting comfortably, divide it into three columns. The first of them is intended to describe the consequences that can occur if the problem is ignored. The second column should reflectsituations that were similar to the current one, and the course of getting rid of them. The third one is intended as an option to fix the current problem.
Amosov method
Anxiety neurosis is usually accompanied by insomnia. The method of relaxation and falling asleep proposed by Amosov will help to cope with the situation. This specialist recommends that before going to bed, be sure to take off tight clothes and lie down as comfortably as possible. In a comfortable position, a person suffering from insomnia is recommended to relax individually all muscle groups. Start with the face.
After that, calm your breath and relax your neck. And so continue further for all muscle groups. Gradually, breathing will become slower, deeper, and sound sleep will come to a person within half an hour.
