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Objective

CAUSES
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
TYPES OF NEUROSIS
TREATMENT

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 DEFINATION
› A TERM GENERALLY USED TO DESCRIBE A
NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL ILLNESS WHICH
TRIGGERS FEELINGS OF DISTRESS AND
ANXIETY CHARACTERISTICS.
› HAS FIRM GRIP WITH REALITY

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 CAUSES
› EMOTIONAL STRESS
› HYSTERICAL STRESS
› DRUG INTERACTION
 SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
› DISTURBANCES IN
EMOTIONAL,
OCCUPATIONAL
AND SOCIAL LIFE
 CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
› The neurosis is a purely functional mental
disorder without organic reason,

› a group of “borderline” functional neuro-

psychical disorders that manifest
themselves in specific clinical phenomena in
the absence of psychical phenomena.
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 CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
› The basis of neuroses is an internal conflict
caused by an insoluble contradiction in the
attitude of a person to the reality.
› Sources Human relationships and
conflicts

Social Wrong
relationships Upbringing

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 CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS

› More important features of the neuroses are

› the mental and physical disorganization,
› inadequate response and inability to properly react
to different situations,
› emotional liability,
› constant internal tension and anxiety, agitation,
discomfort, feeling of inadequacy, aggression,
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TYPES OF NEUROSIS
ANXIETY

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DEPRESSION

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OBSSESIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER

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DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER

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SOMATOFROM DISORDER

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HYPOCHONDRIACS

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› The neurotics are characterized by emotional
infantilism or lack of affective maturity – reacting
unconsciously in specific situations. The factors for
the neurosis can be as follows:
› biological-hereditary burden, prolonged somatic
diseases;
› socio-psychic climate;
› psychological – psychological traumas, personality
traits, emotional shock, Stress.
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› socio-economic – social pressure, socio-economic difficulties,
material disadvantages, etc.
› Neuroses include neurasthenia, fearful neurosis, hysteria,
neuroses of compulsive conditions /phobic disorders/. The
differentiation is conditional, because neurosis in pure form
rarely occurs.
› The treatment is mainly psychological in the form of moral
and general social support, through psychotherapy, general
reinforcing procedures, and medicines.

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TREATMENT

› MEDICATIONS
› COUNSELLLING
› PSYCHOTHERAPY
› COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY
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Conclusion

› A NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL ILLNESS WHICH

TRIGGERS FEELINGS OF DISTRESS AND
ANXIETY CHARACTERISTICS.
› DOESN’T LOSE TOUCH WITH REALITY
› STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IS MARKET
PRECIPITATING FACTOR.

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 REFRENCES

› ICD 10 – CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL AND

BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS
› FISH’S CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHOLGY
› ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHIATRY BY M.S BHATIA
› DAVIDSON’S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF
MEDICNE (21ST EDITION)

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