Hysteria - sick of a weak personality

The phenomenon of dozens of youth volunteers living in the forest with convulsions, screaming from the war years and hundreds of Phu Tho girls suddenly fainted recently, the experts determined to suffer from the same disease : hysteria.

In folklore, people call this expression with an obscure name, with a ridiculous attitude, not very sympathetic: 'Caucasian disease', or to say it is . a lack of men! In the international classification table, it is called dissociated disorder, encountered in 0.3-0.5% of the population, usually women (10 times more than men).

Hysteria disease is known from ancient Greece but it was not until 1859 that Briquet fully described the disease scientifically and systematically. Currently, modern psychiatry places hysteria in a group of psychotic psychosis. The disease often occurs after a psychological trauma in weak personality (the term personality used in medicine is completely different from the concept of social morality). Common manifestations and clinical forms:

Hysteria attack: A seizure, stunned after a psychological trauma. The patient struggles to scream, bang the bed . but the consciousness is still alert and aware of the surrounding, likes to be noticed.

Emotional disturbances: Crying for crying, chaotic emotions, not speaking properly, not eating with the surrounding topic, screaming for unknown reasons, consciousness is less disturbed. In some cases, patients have hallucinations (usually hallucinations - seeing phenomena that are not outside). The patient is very easy to be obsessed with and self-obsessed (incorrect perception of things happening).

Hysteria fainting: Sudden fainting but consciousness is not much affected, eyes may still blink (different from cardiac fainting, tired patients before the attack, history of cardiovascular disease, when bout A complete loss of consciousness occurs.

Hysteria Sleep: Light convulsions and then go to sleep but eyes remain limp. Sleep can last 1-2 days.

Movement disorders: May experience movement disorders such as tremors, convulsions, paralysis function vague unknown area, unclear, sometimes pretending, spread throughout the body.

Sensory Disorders : Loss of feeling or hyperactivity (a small stimulus but the patient feels larger than usual); pain and body sensory diagrams; Internal sensations are also disturbed like abdominal pain, chest pain, heart pain .

Sensory Disorders: Sudden deafness after a psychological injury without any physical injury in the auditory system. Hypnosis recovery almost has very clear results. Sometimes patients suddenly see nothing while their eyes are still open, still vaguely noticed the surrounding objects.

The cause of hysteria disease is usually traumatic, highly fearful, pessimistic anger, having a body disease that the patient understands as dangerous. Favorable factors are weak personality, poor willpower, neurological abnormalities, poisoning, infection, cardiovascular disease .

Regarding the mechanism of hysteria generation, there are many different theories . Modern neuroscientists argue that the disease is caused by increased emotions, expressed in people with weak personality. In these people, the cortex weakens, the system under the cortex exits, so when it is stimulated, it is impossible to control, increasing the cortex inhibition. Finally there is an increase in the shell activity that clinical manifestations are many diverse symptoms, depending on the area of ​​brain stimulation. It is from this characteristic that the disease can appear and diminish by obsession. Feeling into a climax when there is a seizure of a chain reaction in the community (having the same situation), causing a collective illness, can take up to a hundred people at a time.

The disease is treated by psychological, hypnosis, creating good relationships between doctors and patients, the disease will pass away in a short time. In some more difficult cases, immediate use of benzodiazepines, then low-dose antidepressants, such as Elavil, or new drugs such as Prozac, Remeron, Sertralin .

Prevention must be strategic with school mental health care programs. Need to train people to train in different environments including difficult conditions. Disseminate knowledge about this disease. Calling people to live in harmony, have a collective spirit, love and help each other. Excluding stressors, favorable environmental factors give rise to the disease as mentioned above.

When there are sick people, it is necessary to avoid concentration, caring too carefully to make the illness worse, but to respect the patient. In treatment, you can take some anxiety-reducing drugs, medications that reduce body symptoms.