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Neurotic disorders are a very wide group of mental disorders with very diverse symptoms. Such neuroses are also called neuroses. Neuroses cause not only unpleasant mental sensations, but also purely physical ones, leading even to certain dysfunctions of organs and the formation of pathological responses on the part of the body.
Vegetative neuroses: what are they?
Vegetative neuroses combine the mental with the physical. Mental symptoms cause various types of pain or discomfort, while physical symptoms increase the fear and neurotic anxiety even more.
Vegetative neurosis it is diagnosed when symptoms do not improve within a few months or at most half a year.
Neurosis and its effect on the heart
One of the vegetative neuroses is cardiac neurosis. This is a type of anxiety neurosis, which causes, through feeling uncomfortable emotions, the formation of symptoms from the heart system. It is caused by excessive stress and a kind of “overload” of the ASN, i.e. the Autonomic Nervous System. Cardiac neurosis can also be caused by a traumatic experience, a difficult life or material situation.
Patients experience heart pain, palpitations, rapid pulse, sweating and other chest pains. At the same time, they are convinced of the presence of an undiagnosed somatic disease.
Women are more often affected than men. However, the symptoms in both sexes are very similar. There is no particular age at which neurosis of this type could develop faster and more often. It can affect people of all ages.
Heartaches and somatic symptoms: insights into the disease
In the case of neurosis of the heart or other neuroses from the vegetative group, the patient is aware of the lack of basis for the formation of somatic symptoms. However, heart pain, palpitations and other symptoms of cardiac neurosis are such a strong experience that this judgment can be disturbed. Heartaches always increase unreasonable fear in a person, which in the case of neurosis has an even greater range and turns into the so-called. neurotic vicious circle.
The vicious circle of neuroticism consists in the fact that the patient, feeling strong fear, intensifies and induces somatic pain. Feeling somatic pain also increases the level of his anxiety. Increased anxiety is working on the body again… These symptoms come full circle and they keep getting worse.
Treatment of neurosis of the heart and vegetative neuroses
The most important in the treatment of neurosis is psychotherapy. Properly carried out, it helps to remove the source of suffering and pain, including the physical one. It is emotions, unjustified fear, neurotic fear that lead to purely physical symptoms. An experienced therapist will supplement the patient’s knowledge about his own illness, allow him to realize his internal problems that lead to anxiety and, most importantly, teach the patient how to fight fear and help stabilize his mood.
Pharmacotherapy is also helpful. In the treatment of neurosis, antidepressants are used, which give quite good results in treatment.