The Neurosis

The Neurosis

Neurosis Mental Disorder

Neurosis is a mental disorder characterized by incomplete insight into the nature of difficulties or conflicts.

The Nine (9) General Characteristics of Neurosis

1. 1.  Presence of Anxiety – there is a feeling of dread, fearful anticipation and apprehensiveness in most routine circumstances.
2. 2.   Inability to function at capacity.  The neurotic fails to realize his potentials and frequency fails miserably in his achievements efforts.
3. 3. Rigid or repetitive behavior – incapable of learning new means of adjusting the life’s problems.
4. 4.  Egocentricity – self-preoccupied and fails to distinguish that there are other people in his environment.  He tends to exortanly selfish.
5. 5.  Hypersensitivity – inability to tolerate criticism
6. 6.   Immaturity – failure to develop mature emotions and motivational pattern.
7. 7.  Somatic Complaints – physical ailment which is psychogenically oriented and has therefore no organic or psychogenic basic.
8. 8.  Unhappiness – feelings of loneliness of being hurt, of missing the good things in life.
9. 9.  Unconscious motivation – awareness of reality is colored by unconsciousness, fears and hostilities.

Types of Neurotic Reactions

A)      Anxiety Neurosis – this manifests itself principally in feelings for which there seems to be no specific basis on reality.

B)      Hysterical Neurosis – this is a kind of adjustment through conversion of illness.

C)      Dissociative Neurosis – the patient’s flight is into the awareness rather than into sickness

1        Amnesia – forgetting

2        Fugue – leaves his original environment and takes a new one.

3        Multiple Personality – two or more personality

4        Somnambulism – sleepwalking or any activity that takes place while asleep.

D)      Phobic Reaction – irrational fear or dread of person, objects, acts or situation.

1. 1        Agoraphobia – fear of open places
2. 2        Claustrophobia – fear of closed places
3. 3        Acrophobia – fear of heights
4. 4        Germophobia – fear of germs
5. 5        Hematophobia – fear of blood
6. 6        Zoophobia – fear of animals
7. 7        Xenophobia – fear of strangers
8. 8        Pathophobia – fear of disease
9. 9        Tapophobia – fear of being buried alive
10. 10    Cheimophobia – fear of cold
11. 11    Electrophobia – fear of electricity
12. 12    Astrophobia – fear of lightning / thunder

E)      Obsessive / Compulsive

1. 1     Obsession – irrational thought which persistently forces into consciousness.
2. 2     Compulsion – irrational act, which a person is compelled to carry out

F)       Depressive / Neurotic Depression nor Reactive Depression – is precipitated by saddening stress situation or bereavement


G)      Hypochindrial Reaction – pre-occupation with bodily processes.