Why do neuroses occur in children and treatment?

1 Types of ailment and disease on the basis of fear

According to the general classification, 13 types of neuroses appearing in the child are distinguished. One of them is a neurosis based on fear. This state is most common in younger schoolchildren. This type of neurotic pathology manifests itself in prolonged, sometimes even half-hour attacks of fear, more often it appears before going to sleep.

Symptoms of this disorder are varied: from minor anxiety to real hallucinations. The child's fears are due to his age category. For example, pre-schoolers have a fear of being alone, dark, non-existent or real animals that were previously taken away in cartoons. For pupils of lower grades, signs of this kind of neurosis are fear of a certain teacher, before school, before discipline and exactingness. Treatment of such a disorder is carried out by a psychologist or psychotherapist.

2 Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Specialists define such a state as the presence of certain ritual movements in the child's behavior. If they are not fulfilled by the child, this entails an increase in anxiety and internal tension. In childhood, there are 2 types of such conditions: obsessive actions and fear. Among the children of preschool age, such obsessive movements as blinking are more often noted, the child often wrinkles his nose or forehead, pritoptyvaet, claps. With the help of such actions, the level of psychological and emotional discomfort decreases.

As for phobias, claustrophobia, fear of sharp objects, is more often noted. After a while, the fear of death, disease, a ledge in front of people joins them. Such a neurosis, its symptoms provoke a constant tension in children. Treatment of this disorder is not always carried out only with the help of a psychologist. Sometimes you have to resort to certain medications.

3 Depressive type of illness

Another type of disorder is neurosis of a depressive type. This problem is noted mainly in adolescence. It manifests itself by such signs:

• a constant bad mood;
• sadness on the face;
• peculiar inhibition in the movements and gestures;
• inhibition of activity;
• avoiding communication.

In advanced cases, there are symptoms such as sleep disorders, lack of appetite, constipation. This gives the child certain difficulties in communicating with peers and teachers. Treatment of this condition is carried out after the diagnosis and counseling of a psychotherapist and a neurologist.

4 Asthenic species and rudimentary motor attacks

Neurasthenia appears as a response to increased congestion by additional tasks due to physical and emotional overstrain. A characteristic feature of this type of neurosis is that it occurs only in school years.

Another type of this pathology is rudimentary motor attacks. This phenomenon is often found in preschool children. If the child is not given the desired, he begins to be offended or punished. Because of this, the baby manifests his discontent with the fact that he begins to fall to the floor, spreads his arms and legs, loudly cries or cries, beats the floor with his fists.

Treatment in this case is symptomatic, depending on the degree of neglect. Sometimes, therapy with sedative herbal remedies may be required to help support the child's labile nervous system. With age, such seizures often go away.

5 Stammering and hypochondria

Stuttering on nerves often occurs in children between the ages of 2 and 5 years at a time when speech is taking place, and later it develops and becomes more complicated. Very often there are cases when children begin to stutter in response to a strong shock, for example, when separated from their parents, unexpected for the baby. A predisposing factor may be excessive pressure on a child who does not talk too well, and can cause strong emotional overloads to provoke stuttering.

The hypochondria is characterized by a painful concern for one's health, multiple and unreasonable thoughts about non-existent diseases. Most often this condition is observed in adolescence. Symptoms of it are ticks, various actions that are performed in order to remove emotional stress from oneself. In younger children, this condition is marked by enuresis and stuttering, a violation of sleep.

6 Sleep disorder, appetite and manifestation of enuresis

This condition is reflected in excessive anxiety, violations in the deep phases of sleep, nightmares, sleepwalking. Failures in appetite on neurotic soil have their own reasons. Excessive care for the child, my mother tries to force him to feed him. Sometimes the cause of anorexic neurosis becomes fear during eating. The result is the unwillingness of the child to eat, marked regurgitation, vomiting, increased intelligibility in food.

This neurotic type, like enuresis, occurs between the ages of 7 and 10 years. There is an involuntary urination at night, with no physiological reasons for this, and the amount of secreted fluid is insignificant. Such a state can be met quite rarely, its causes and nature are not fully understood. It is only known that this neurotic disorder is based on habit.

Another type of neurotic disorder is thumb sucking. This action of pathological genesis, the basis of it is a habit. This condition is often observed in the child, regardless of age. It is accompanied by rocking before falling asleep, a type of this type is sucking hair, the tip of a blanket or pillow. Treatment is carried out in individual cases and only after consulting a specialist.

7 Opinion of

physicians In most cases, a neurotic disorder can cause a psychological trauma, such as fright, intense resentment, a result of emotional pressure.

But to identify a specific cause or event that caused this state is probably very rare, so it is not possible to establish a direct link between the event and the pathological condition.

According to the opinion of doctors, the majority of cases of neurotic condition in children arise as a result of not a specific case that would cause trauma, but as a result of long reflection and inability to accept or understand the circumstances that have developed at the moment, this inability to adapt to the changed conditions of the environment.

According to the doctors, neurotic disorder in a child is not a physiological problem, but a lack of education. Little children perceive everything too sharply, so negative situations can adversely affect them. The consequences of a negative situation may not appear immediately, but after a certain period of time. Such factors as the child's age range, his gender, hereditary predisposition, peculiarities of upbringing, chronic diseases, increased psychological and emotional overload, and sleep disturbances have a great influence on the propensity for neuroses and the treatment provided.