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Nervous exhaustion

Causes and symptoms of nervous exhaustion


What is nervous exhaustion?

Nervous exhaustion is a special psycho-emotional condition arising from stress, high emotional or intellectual stress at work, school or home. Nervous exhaustion can be both a harbinger and a symptom of depression, manifest disorders of intelligence and other clinical symptoms, which can be a great many: people suffer cognitive ability, memory and physical condition. Nervous exhaustion significantly affects the quality of human life: it cannot work, communicate with people, to relax and enjoy life.


Causes of nervous exhaustion

Causes of nervous exhaustion often becomes fatigue. When a person consumes more energy than it is able to accumulate, the body is depleted. This concerns the nervous system. Increased emotional and mental stress, lack of sleep and rest, bad habits, restlessness, anxiety and stress are very much tiring on the human brain. If you do not have a break people emotionally "burn out" and comes nervous exhaustion. Normal person should alternate active mental activity and emotional discharge, the state of excitation should be replaced by braking, rest. If not, the probability of development of depression and nervous exhaustion.

The symptoms of nervous exhaustion

Nervous exhaustion may be hiding variety of symptoms. For example, patients often pay attention to the pain in the heart area. They observed fluctuations in blood pressure, cardiac arrhythmia, numbness and coldness in the extremities, headaches, digestive disorders, insomnia, nightmares, nausea, vomiting. Nervous exhaustion often accompanied by sexual dysfunction: a man loses his libido. For nervous exhaustion characterized by disorders of coordination, spatial orientation, speech and memory. Mastering even the simplest of information causes difficulties develop chronic forgetfulness. Sometimes the symptoms are so pronounced that the patient may needinpatient treatment. In some cases, burnout can manifest symptoms of dystonia: palpitations, irregular pressure, a slight lowering of body temperature (35 degrees). Common symptoms of exhaustion and depression are insomnia, weakness, fatigue, irritability. The flash of anger in humans can be caused by the most innocuous things: other people, sounds, smells, habits and words of friends and relatives, own behavior. Some people may seek refuge from the emotional and mental exhaustion in alcohol, Smoking and drugs. But this only exacerbates the disease, causing a deep dependence and depression.


Treatment of nervous exhaustion

Nervous exhaustion not to be underestimated: this condition is very common and can bring a person great harm. Therefore, the treatment of nervous exhaustion is not always easy and in some cases might even require hospital treatment. Drug therapy is the intake of various drugs, including vasodilators, drugs that restore brain cells, nootropics, vitamins and antidepressants. But they have side effects. To avoid negative effects, the dosage and the drug needs only to find the doctor. Successful treatment of nervous exhaustion is possible only if the normalization mode of the day. People should maintain a healthy lifestyle, work, relax and eat at the same time, taking the time to walks on fresh air and proper nutrition.

Sleep should be trying to normalize without the use of medication. This is facilitated by relaxation, meditation. You have to sleep only in case of extreme fatigue, getting rid of the habit to read, watch TV or work in bed. Should not forcibly try to get to sleep, for hours tossing and turning in bed. Better to get up and read a book or drink herbal tea. Rest of man needs to be as diverse as possible. Special attention should exercise. Easy exercises, swimming, walking or Cycling is a great way to combat nervous exhaustion, often because the reason for it be the lack of necessary physical activity and sedentary lifestyle (physical inactivity).