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.
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