The Difficulty of Treating Neurological Disorders

Anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, hypochondriacs, neurasthenia and other neurological disorders are a kind of mental suffering, the patient’s social functioning and social adaptability of the damage is more serious, improper treatment will cause other serious emotional disorders and physical damage, how to effectively treat neurological disorders has also become the focus of the common concern of both doctors and patients. The main difficulties in treatment include: Neurosis is deeply rooted in a relatively stable personality. As the Chinese saying goes, “It is easy to change one’s personality, but not one’s character.” It is unlikely that neuroticism will be “cured”, and if it is, it will be superficial and short-lived. Therefore, in order to enable neurotics to get rid of “mental pain” in the long run, it is necessary to find a long-term treatment method based on “self-training” in addition to medication and psychotherapy. Moreover, “not knowing the true face of Mount Lushan, only being here in the mountain”, neurotic patients “only live in their own head”, and their psychological conflict comes from self-negative repression (this is a kind of conscious mental process, which aims to drive out a certain kind of desire and idea from the conscious field and bury it deep in the realm of consciousness), which is a kind of psychological process, and it is a kind of psychological process, which aims to drive out a certain kind of desire and idea from the conscious field and bury it deep in the realm of consciousness. (this is a conscious psychological process aimed at driving certain passions and ideas out of the conscious sphere and burying them deep in the subconscious). Therefore, no matter what psychotherapeutic techniques and theories are used, the key link in the treatment of neurosis is “de-repression”, freeing the “true self” from repression, and re-cognizing oneself and the world. As M.R. Goldfried puts it, “All different forms of therapy have in common the clinical strategy of offering patients an alternative way of looking at themselves, their behavior, and the world around them.” There are many modern psychological approaches to “de-repression,” but they seem to be too complex and cumbersome, requiring time and again under the guidance of a doctor, and not convenient for the patient to practice on his or her own. In addition, “one side of the soil nurtures one side of the people”, neurosis and social and cultural relationship is relatively close, as Professor Xu Yixin said: “sick behavior is a function of culture. At present, domestic psychotherapy is basically the introduction and imitation of Western theories and models, deeply influenced by Western culture and Western social customs. Although the design is more rigorous, the means is advanced, and the empirical evidence is strong, the credibility and feasibility of these results have certain geographical limitations. Therefore, how to utilize psychotherapeutic methods that are culturally relevant to China is another difficulty in the treatment and rehabilitation of neurosis. Reconciling with Yourself: Using the Wisdom of Zen to Treat Neurosis