People can have maladaptive, socially unacceptable, or personally distressing habits {neurosis}| {psychoneurosis}.
symptoms
Neurosis symptoms include avoidance of others, self-indulgence, turning against others, self-deprivation, and turning against self. Neurosis symptoms are similar to normal-people feelings and thoughts but stronger.
onset
People can learn neurotic behaviors in early childhood.
persistence
Neurosis resists modification through learning. It persists because it protects against overt or hidden anxiety.
gender
Women outnumber men neurotics two to one.
types
Neuroses include functional disorders, such as limb paralysis or erectile impotence. They include alcohol dependence, anxieties, compulsions, drug dependence, hysteria, obsessive-compulsive disorders, personality disorders, phobias, sexual deviations, and disorders specific to childhood and adolescence.
neurotic personality types
Neurotic personality types include abnormal, cyclothymic, hysterical, obsessional, paranoid, schizoid, sociopathic, and vulnerable. Abnormal personalities have overreactions to anxiety. Cyclothymic personalities alternate in energy level. Hysterical personalities use repression and dissociation, especially in classic conversion hysteria. Obsessional personalities have rigid mental structures, possibly defenses against strong instinctual drives. Paranoid personalities use projection in behavior and thinking. Schizoid personalities use different personalities to hide anxieties. Anxiety and frustration can cause sociopathic personalities, likely to harm others. Vulnerable personalities cannot cope with everyday stresses, feel inadequate, seek attention, and are histrionic.
The most common neurosis {anxiety reaction}| {anxiety state} involves acute fear, triggered by stimulus or conflict. People can have recurring or persistent fears or panic and have active autonomic nervous systems, with sweating, tremors, faintness, choking, breathlessness, and stomach queasiness.
Neurosis {character disorder} can involve behavior or personality alterations.
Neurosis {hysteria} {conversion reaction}| {conversion hysteria} can be defense against stress.
symptoms
Hysteria can involve speech abnormalities, multiple personalities, histrionic behaviors, attention-seeking behaviors, manipulative behaviors, flirtatious behaviors, little self-criticism, susceptibility to suggestion, paralyzed limbs, convulsions, sensation loss, blindness, ataxic gait, throat constriction, fugue, dissociation, twilight states, amnesias, and shallow and labile emotions.
brain
Two-thirds of hysteria patients have brain injury or neurological disease.
Neurosis {depression, psychology}| {depressive neurosis} {depressive reaction} {unipolar affective disorder} can involve hopelessness, helplessness, despair, suicidal ideas, feelings of no control, edginess, irritability, and guilt. People tire easily, have low concentration, have poor appetite, lose weight, have constipation, have low sex drive, have light non-REM sleep, have low interest in things, and have earlier, longer, and more intense first REM sleep.
drugs
Drugs that deplete brain-messenger monoamines can induce depression. Drugs that raise monoamine level relieve depression.
factors
Artificial light and sleep deprivation reduce depression.
cause
Death, divorce, and other losses often cause depression [Wolpert, 2001].
Neurosis {hypochondria}| {hypochondriacal reaction} can involve unreasonable worries about health.
Neurosis {neurasthenic reaction} {neurasthenia}| can involve nervousness, fatigue, weakness, and headache. Conflicts about masturbation, or inability to resolve doubt or uncertainty, can cause it.
Neurosis {thought disorder}| can involve delusion, dissociation, obsession, and phobia.
Neurosis {obsessive-compulsive reaction}| {obsessive-compulsive neurosis} can involve absurd-idea recurrence.
symptoms
It can have odd behavior impulses, like kleptomania, pyromania, and poriomania. It can have compulsion. It can have obsession. People can be overly conventional, conscientious, reliable, scrupulous, or punctual. They can think about harm, contamination, sex, and sin. They can think repetitively about abstract problems. They can continually manipulate words and numbers. They can have fears of harming someone. They can fear dirt contamination. They can continually wash hands or check water taps. They often recognize their fears are silly.
incidence
Obsessive-compulsive reaction is rare.
Mental states {compulsion}| can have uncontrollable desires to do odd behaviors.
Mental states {obsession}| can have fixed thoughts.
Compulsions {kleptomania}| can involve stealing.
Compulsions {poriomania} can have continual movement.
Compulsions {pyromania}| can have fire setting.
Specific emotional stimuli can cause habitual behaviors {repetition compulsion}.
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