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Neurasthenia: Synonyms and Causes and Treatment
Neurasthenia covers a wide spectrum of symptoms, including painful sensations or numbness in parts of the body, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and fainting.
Neurasthenia, the third disorder of the 1870s, was a more prestigious and attractive form of female nervousness than hysteria, although it shared so many of hysteria's symptoms that even specialists could not always distinguish between the two. Like hysteria, neurasthenia encompassed a wide range of symptoms from blushing, vertigo, headaches, and neuralgia to insomnia, depression, and uterine irritability. Dr. George Savage's description of the neurasthenic, for example, incorporated some of the sexual stereotypes of the hysteric:
Synonyms
- Primary Neurasthenia
- Cardiac Neurosis
- Chronic Asthenia
- Da Costa's Syndrome
- Effort Syndrome
- Functional Cardiovascular Disease
- Soldier's Heart
- Sub acute Asthenia
Disorder Subdivisions
- Angiopathic Neurasthenia
- Angioparalytic Neurasthenia
- Pulsating Neurasthenia
- Gastric Neurasthenia
- Neurasthenia Gravis
- Neurasthenia Precox
- Neurocirculatory Asthenia
Cause of Neurasthenia
The cause of Neurasthenia remain unknown however like most disorders, certain predisposing factors may play an important part, chief of which may be mentioned heredity factors, occupation (high stress occupations), age (tends to occurs between 20 and 55 years of age), and sex (predominantly see in males).
Treatment of Neurasthenia
No physical treatment has been established. If other mental or physical disorders are present, these may require treatment.
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