Neurosis is a disorder of the state of the nervous system and is accompanied by a number of health-damaging phenomena, including phobias, obsessive thoughts, unfounded fears, panic attacks, psychoemotional stress.
One of the manifestations of neurosis is the tendency to perform such conditional rituals as excessively frequent hand washing and handling in order to prevent infection, fear of eating in public to avoid unforeseen situations, a desire to isolate even from close friends.
The behavioral factor becomes the basis for starting to take at least pills for neurosis: this will help relieve tension and psycho-emotional hypertonicity, normalize sleep and change the line of thinking.
Correctly selected drugs help to improve psychoemotional hypertonicity
The disease destroys the integrity of a person's personality - he is deprived of the opportunity to calmly stay in society, and pathology, as it progresses, becomes the root cause of physical disorders.
Drug treatment of neurosis in this case directly stops the panic attack, which prevents the development of pathologies of organs and systems.
A person suffering from neurosis is disturbed by symptoms classified into the following groups:
- Cardiovascular system disorders... Pains are noted in the projection of the heart; pulse is speeded up; there is an increase in blood pressure; the release of blood is carried out at an unequal interval of time; a person experiences a feeling of lack of air, he has a need to take an additional breath.
- Neurological disorders... A patient with neurosis is worried about paresthesias - an imaginary feeling of goose bumps on the body; numbness of the limbs occurs; dizziness is observed; headaches that often resemble migraines; insomnia.
- Gastroenterological disorders... Neurosis always affects the state of the digestive tract - not only the functional activity of its organs changes, but also, in some individual cases, the state of the structure. There is dryness of the mucous membranes of the oral cavity, dyspeptic disorders, expressed in bouts of nausea (it almost always ends with vomiting), diarrhea, pain syndrome.
The degree of manifestation of bodily disorders in different patients varies.
If the patient (or his relatives) asked for qualified medical care at the time when the disease was already in a neglected state, a specialist prescribes drugs for neurosis , which, according to the principle of their effect and the spectrum of the providing therapeutic effect, are conditionally divided into four categories:
- antidepressants,
- tranquilizers,
- antipsychotics and nootropics.
When do antidepressants help?
The antidepressants offered by the modern pharmaceutical industry are the most effective drugs for neurosis.
They have an impact on the psychoemotional state of a person, due to which anxiety, excitement, fear, panic attack are stopped.
They also contribute to the effective elimination of pathological focus on rituals.
Due to the fact that this group of drugs relieves stress and anxiety, manifestations of a vegetative nature are reduced or completely eliminated.
Fluoxetine is an antidepressant that is prescribed for neuroses
To consolidate the positive result that antidepressants provide for neurosis, psychotherapy sessions will help - a regular visit to a specialist allows the patient to soon change his line of thinking ... A feature of the effect of these drugs is the almost complete suppression of fear, so a person is not deprived of the opportunity to independently go out into the street, engage in work.
Only a psychotherapist or psychiatrist can select specific antidepressants, plan a therapeutic approach and monitor its implementation.
Unauthorized drug treatment is impossible for two reasons: it poses a threat to human health and life , this group of medications is not in the public domain - they are dispensed strictly according to the doctor's prescription.
Some of the most sought-after antidepressants include:
- Citalopramil its derivatives;
- Humoril
- Bethol
- Fluoxetine
- Ludiomil
- Amitriptyline
- Fevarin
Each drug for neurosis is taken with a minimum dose.
The doctor monitors the dynamics of the mental state, as well as the degree of tolerance to a particular drug.
If there is no deterioration in well-being, the specialist can correct the initially prescribed dose by slightly increasing it.
The therapeutic effect is achieved no earlier than after 1.5-2 weeks.
At the beginning of the treatment, the patient may experience an exacerbation of psychiatric pathology - an intense, persistent fear develops.
Some psychiatrists, when treating patients with neurosis, prescribe a combination of antidepressants with other psychotropic substances to stop such symptoms of neurosis, and prescribe tranquilizer pills to treat it.
A positive result is achieved from the first day of using the prescribed combination of drugs.
When do tranquilizers help?
In terms of pharmacological action, tranquilizers perform five important functions.:
- provide a hypnotic effect,
- relax muscle tension,
- calm down,
- eliminate anxiety,
- prevent the development of seizures.
The psychotherapist prescribes these drugs for neurosis and depression in cases where the condition is complicated by fear and growing anxiety.
Medicines effectively relieve psycho-emotional stress, help to normalize sleep.
The active substances of tranquilizers inhibit the centers of the brain, which predetermine the emotional sphere: the hypothalamus, the reticular formation of the brain stem, thalamic nuclei.
Only a doctor can prescribe which pills to drink with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
These drugs include:
- Phenazepam
- Diazepam
- Hydroxyzine
- Mebutamat
Depending on the degree of the disorder, prescribe injections for neuroses ... In most cases it is sibazon... The drug has a pronounced sedative property, it is administered only with a doctor's prescription, and the patient is under the supervision of a psychiatrist. It should be noted that it is forbidden to combine this drug with alcohol consumption.
Phenazepam helps in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders
In the form of injections, a specialist also prescribes amizil.
The drug has both positive aspects and a high probability of developing side effects: they are expressed in the development of disorders from the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
Most often it is insomnia, euphoric state, increased heart rate.
When do antipsychotics help?
Antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of neurosis significantly affect the body, since they have a pronounced antipsychotic effect.
Medicines in this group are more likely to help relieve fear than relieve tension.
Therefore, neuroleptic drugs are widely used for neuroses and depression, in which there is a depression of the psychoemotional state.
The pharmacological properties of the drugs of this group resemble those drugs that were used in psychiatric practice in previous centuries - they were based on bromine and caffeine.
The modern pharmaceutical market offers drugs that have a more pronounced therapeutic effect without developing side effects.
When is it necessary to treat with nootropics?
Any drug in this group is the best remedy for neurosis only when pathology is at the initial stage of its development.
Psychotropic drugs have a strong positive effect on the functional ability of the brain, making it more resistant to the harmful effects of irritating factors.
They increase the level of the patient's intellectual activity, the indicators of his mental abilities improve, the problems of impaired concentration of attention are gradually eliminated, the ability to remember is normalized.
The following drugs are distinguished for the treatment of neuroses in adults:
- Actovegin
- Cerebrolysin
- Piracetam
- Phezam
- Pantogan
Due to its mild antidepressant effect, nootropics are successfully used to correct the condition of patients with psychomotor retardation, apathy ; allow to saturate the brain tissue with oxygen, preventing the development of the so-called oxygen starvation - hypoxia.
The source of providing a surge of energy for patients with neurosis is the fatty acids present in the composition of the drugs in question.
An important feature of the active ingredients of this pharmacological group is the ability to remove toxic substances from the blood and brain tissues..
Actovegin helps to correct the state of psychomotor retardation
Despite the obvious advantages of nootropic therapy, there is a certain list of contraindications.
Therefore, when planning a therapeutic approach and understanding how to treat neurosis, drugs in this category are not prescribed for the following conditions:
- Pregnancy and lactation period
- Presence of liver failure
- The presence of oncological neoplasms
- History of epilepsy
- Chronic renal failure
- History of hemorrhagic stroke
Also, drugs in this category are not prescribed to people suffering from epilepsy, and at the time of an exacerbation of a mental disorder.
It is successfully used to correct the following conditions:
- Neurosis on the background of drug addiction.
- Neurosis with a simultaneous course of impaired urination function of neurogenic genesis (neurogenic bladder).
- Apathy, decreased mental alertness.
- Lack of ability to remember and concentrate.
Despite the insignificant range of possible side effects produced by nootropics, the patient's condition must be monitored within the hospital.
Properties of other drugs and features of their purpose
In the process of eliminating neuroses, the patient is also prescribed vitamin therapy: the prescription of B vitamins has a general strengthening effect on the state of the nervous system.
There are also certain rules for the administration of drugs. : the age of the patient, his weight, sex, stage of the disease, the severity of the neuropsychiatric disorder, the likelihood of developing an adverse reaction are taken into account.
Based on this, the administration of chlorpromazine is prescribed to the patient immediately before bedtime: the drug has antihypertensive properties, promotes the onset of sleep, the elimination of panic attacks.
Melleril is a quality sedative, however, one of its side effects is a decrease in libido, impaired erectile function in men.
The drug is not prescribed for patients planning a pregnancy.
It has been established that symptoms such as depressed mood develop only as a response of the body to an overdose.
Aminazine injections are usually given at bedtime.
Each medication has a number of contraindications for its use, therefore, the attending physician should be warned about the presence of such at the stage of conducting a survey and collecting information about the state of health.
Each of the drugs has both positive properties and a certain range of side effects., which can manifest itself in certain patients with neuroses.
Drug therapy for this pathological condition of the nervous system provides a positive result.
However, it is important to seek qualified help early: in certain clinical cases, this predetermines the speed of recovery.
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