Parents often do not pay enough attention to changes in their child's behavior. That is why you should know the most common symptoms of childhood neuroses, because the sooner you can find the problem, the faster and easier it will be to fix it.
According to statistics, about 90% of school graduates suffer from some form of neurosis. Neurosis is a reversible disease that is easiest to eradicate in its early stages. Therefore, the sooner parents pay attention to the existing problem, the easier it will be for them to overcome it.
Each type of neurosis has its own symptoms.
1. Neurasthenia (asthenic neurosis) is the most common disease. It manifests itself in excessive irritability, weakness, fatigue and drowsiness. The most striking symptom is a violation of the sleep-wake cycle: at night the child cannot fall asleep, and during the day he feels tired and wants to go to bed as soon as possible.
2. Hysteria is manifested in the child's desire to attract attention to himself by any means. With hysteria, a child can cry, laugh, scream for no reason. In addition, physiological disturbances can be observed: fainting, attacks of suffocation. There is a "flight into illness" - the child likes what is happening to him, that they began to pay so much attention to him.
3. Anxiety neurosis includes the most common childhood fears, but differing in too long duration of emotional impact (from 2-3 months) and the difficulty of eradicating fear.
4. Obsessive-compulsive disorder. Obsessions are obsessive thoughts and ideas, phobias; compulsions - obsessive movements, rituals (for example, excessively frequent and thorough hand washing).
5. In hypochondriacal neurosis, symptoms are exaggerated or invented and ascribed to the most terrible diseases.
You should contact a specialist if you find at least a few of the symptoms. It must be remembered: the sooner the parents are active in helping the child, the easier it will be for him to overcome his illness.
