The Borderland with Neurasthenia (‘Functional Syndromes')

Abstract

At the end of the 19th century, neurasthenia and hysteria were considered distinct diseases. Specifically, neurasthenia was regarded as a disease of the body, whereas hysteria was regarded as a disease of the psyche. However, immediately before World War I, due to their common characteristics, both hysteria and neurasthenia were thought to be 'functional diseases'. Moreover, it was suggested that heredity and the presence in both of the predisposing condition called 'nervous weakness' were other shared factors. Nervous weakness was considered essential for the definition of neurasthenia, but it was also considered a precondition for the development of hysteria. Because of this, it is still difficult to demarcate a line between neurasthenia and hysteria; therefore, the two diseases should be considered as sharing a common borderland with each other.

Psychosocial factors of the neurotic disorders treatment and prevention in metropolis

“…Имея преимущественно соматоцентрическую внутреннюю картину болез-В помощь практикующему врачу ни, эти пациенты в первую очередь обращаются к неврологам, которые рассматривают головную боль напряжения в качестве самостоятельного диагноза, наиболее частого вида первичных головных болей. Игнорирование психогенного компонента состояния больных часто приводит к увеличению длительности нетрудоспособности и присоединению ипохондрического компонента [34].…”

Behavioral cognitive therapy for the treatment of neurasthenia disorders

“…Symptoms could be widespread or focused within a particular bodily system and 36 Kristyaningrum (Cognitive behavioural therapy …) some physicians viewed the symptoms as associated with dysfunction of a particular organ (Overholser & Beale, 2019). Paciaroni & Bogousslavsky (2014) added that attached to there were a set of "psychic" symptoms which were perceived as further manifestations of this nervous weakness, such as inability to concentrate, particularly on mental labor, headache, insomnia, depression, excitability, irritability, and introspective and excessive emotion. PPDGJ (1993) explained that neurasthenia is one type of neurotic disorder which is included in other neurotic disorders.…”