Introduction to neurological disorders and mental health care

   Neurosis as a medical term is widely used in China, including the author’s own clinical neurology work in favor of the application, as one of the neurological (functional) disorders, and psychosis schizophrenia is different, belong to two major categories of diseases.  Neurosis refers to the brain due to long-term emotional tension and mental stress, resulting in the weakening of mental activity, its main features are easy mental excitement and brain fatigue, poor sleep, memory loss, headaches and a variety of physical discomfort and other symptoms, the course of the disease is prolonged, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, the condition fluctuates partly often related to psychosocial factors. Most cases develop between the ages of 16-40, with no significant difference in the onset between the sexes, and those who are engaged in mental work are prone to develop the disease. The disease can be prolonged for several years or even decades if not treated properly. Symptoms may reappear or worsen if new psychological factors or insufficient rest are encountered. However, with active and timely treatment by a psychiatric neurologist, who can guide the patient to eliminate the causes and treat the disease correctly, the disease can be remitted or cured, and the prognosis is generally good. Relatively speaking, patients with this disease have generally introverted personality is more sensitive, the pursuit of perfection, some friends jokingly often have the temperament of an artist. The main clinical manifestations of neurasthenia: 1, easily excited, easily irritated, easily fatigued. 2, such as serious reading and studying for a long time, then feel swollen, dizzy; inattention memory loss. 3, headache, the site is not fixed. 4, sleep disorders, mostly difficulty falling asleep, early awakening, or wake up is not easy to fall back to sleep, more nightmares night terrors. 5, plant nervous disorders, can be tachycardia, sweating, anorexia, constipation, diarrhea, menstrual disorders, premature ejaculation. 6, premature ejaculation. 6.Tendency to suspect somatic diseases. Of course, because the specificity of the diagnostic criteria of neurasthenia is not very strong, it is easy to cross with other disease units. For example, there was a period of time when neurasthenia patients were classified internationally as mild depression. In my clinical opinion, the humanistic content of neurasthenia diagnosis is much better than the “cold” depression diagnosis.  The main treatment for neurasthenia is psychotherapy. 2. Psychotherapy is based on explaining and supporting “positive energy” treatment, eliminating the patient’s suspicion, allowing the patient to understand the process of neurasthenia and the relationship with psychological events. 3. The effect is good, generally do not use expensive drugs, so as not to affect the mood. 4, can be properly combined with acupuncture, massage and other physical therapy. 5, in order to improve the effectiveness of the treatment should be a reasonable arrangement of work and rest system, adhere to exercise, appropriate participation in sports and cultural activities. The last years of friends may remember that during the 1950s-60s, there were groups of people sitting together in group psychotherapy and mutual guidance treatment, and now our square group dance effect is good, attracting foreigners who travel to stop and look at the fascination.  In short, the prognosis of neurasthenia is still good, in today’s social transformation of the public, especially the white-collar intellectual grassroots, we still need to pay attention to mental health eh.