Is headache a symptom of neurosis?

Most patients with neurosis will experience headaches and dizziness. Some will also suffer from frequent insomnia and nightmares. Their memory will gradually decline, and some may even develop emotional disorders.

1. Neurological symptoms

1. Common symptoms include dizziness, headache, insomnia, nightmares, fatigue, memory loss, emotional disorders, etc. A common symptom of neurosis.

2. Headache and dizziness often occur together, the location is unclear, and they are time-dependent. They get worse after using the brain and get better after rest.

3. Memory loss is not an organic change. What is mainly forgotten are daily trivial matters, but one will not forget one's own diseases and things that are deeply engraved in one's heart.

4. Due to insufficient understanding of the disease and excessive focus on themselves, patients suffer from emotional instability and anxiety. When the disease does not heal for a long time, they become more suspicious, fearful, pessimistic, disappointed, and easily agitated. These are common manifestations of neurotic patients.

2. Physical symptoms

1. Common symptoms include tinnitus, dizziness, palpitations, shortness of breath, indigestion, nausea and vomiting, abdominal distension and constipation, sweating, limb tremors, spermatorrhea, impotence, and irregular menstruation.

2. These symptoms are often accompanied by neurological symptoms. If it is caused by organic lesions, there will also be corresponding manifestations of the primary disease.

3. Several common types of neurosis:

1. Neurasthenia: Neurasthenia refers to the weakening of mental activity due to excessive tension in brain function activities caused by certain long-standing mental factors. Its main clinical characteristics are easy excitability and easy fatigue. It is often accompanied by various physical discomforts and sleep disorders. Many patients have certain susceptible qualities or bad personalities before the onset of the disease.

2. Anxiety neurosis: also known as anxiety neurosis, it is characterized by generalized anxiety disorder (chronic anxiety disorder) and paroxysmal panic state (acute anxiety disorder) as the main clinical manifestations, often accompanied by dizziness, chest tightness, palpitations, dyspnea, dry mouth, frequent urination, urgency, sweating, tremor and motor restlessness. The anxiety is not caused by actual threats, or the degree of tension and panic is very disproportionate to the actual situation.

3. Obsessive-compulsive neurosis: abbreviated as OCD, is characterized by repeated and persistent obsessive thoughts and/or compulsive actions as the main symptoms. These symptoms come from within the patient but are not experienced or voluntarily produced, but are what the patient does not want to think about. Knowing that it is irrational, the patient cannot get rid of it, which makes him feel painful and is incompatible with his personality.

4. Depressive neurosis: also known as neurotic depression, is a neurosis caused by social and psychological factors and characterized by a persistent low mood, often accompanied by anxiety, physical discomfort and sleep disorders. Patients have treatment requirements, but have no obvious motor inhibition or psychotic symptoms, and their lives are not seriously affected. It is a neurotic disorder characterized by a persistent state of depressed mood, often accompanied by anxiety, physical discomfort and sleep disorders. The patient has a treatment requirement, has no obvious motor depression or psychotic symptoms, and his ability to live is not seriously affected.