What are the symptoms of neurasthenia?

The phenomenon of neurasthenia will have a great impact on our health, work and life. Patients will experience a heavy head, a swollen head, a feeling of tightness in the head, and long-term insomnia, difficulty falling asleep, and are always irritable and anxious.

Tension pain

It is often caused by tension, with tension headache being the most common. Patients feel a heaviness, swelling, tightness or stiffness in the head; some complain of back pain or muscle pain in the limbs.

Sleep disorders

The most common symptoms are difficulty falling asleep and tossing and turning, which lead to irritability and even more difficulty falling asleep. The second is to complain of having many dreams, waking up easily, or feeling that the sleep is very shallow, as if there was no sleep all night. Some patients feel tired but still sleepy after waking up; or they feel sleepy during the day, but when they go to bed, their brains are excited and they have difficulty falling asleep, which manifests as a disorder of sleep rhythm. Some patients, although they have fallen into a sound sleep and snore loudly, will firmly deny that they have slept after waking up and lack a real sense of sleep. The worry and distress caused by insomnia in this type of patients often exceeds the pain caused by the sleep disorder itself, reflecting the patient's anxious mood about sleep.

Other psychophysiological disorders

The more common ones include: dizziness, blurred vision, tinnitus, palpitations, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, chest tightness, abdominal distension, indigestion, frequent urination, sweating, impotence, premature ejaculation or menstrual disorders. Although these symptoms lack specificity and are also common in anxiety disorders, depression, or somatization disorders, they can become the main complaint of patients seeking treatment for this disease, thus masking the basic symptoms of neurasthenia.