Calmness is the virtue of the strong
It also means that who can tolerate frustrations is strong and he has a good mental health.
It means
that the neurasthenic loses calm easily and does not tolerate stressful
conditions, for example, a boss who breaks the soul, disturbs, pretends,
snares and stresses
The
real fact.
In August, the undersigned webmaster goes into a refueling to put diesel in his poor FIAT Punto, under a scorching sun.
A guy has just parked front at an other pump that dispenses only diesel, while he has to put gasoline in his car.
The column where I am, instead, delivers gasoline and diesel fuels and I have already placed my car in this place with a fast maneuver.
He comes to me and looks at me with a badass appearance, to try to make me move, but the voice and hands shake, while he tells me with threatening tone:
- Do you always do that?
I answer joking:
- Even worse!"
He does not know what to do but I understand that I am in front of a neurotic and to avoid the collision, otherwise I should defend and raise my hands against him, but like a pacifist,
I prefer to avoid the blow! With a smile I put in motion and go a few meters forward. While the amused looking pump-driver makes me gesture that we are facing an exhausted guy, a nevrotic!
The guy parks the car behind me, at the right pump, as I gave him the faculty: I go down and look at him with aplomb.
The guy gets clumsy and sweaty, and unplugs the pump and thinks to put gasoline, but the fuel doesn't go because he is at an automatic pump and has before to put the card or cash.
A few minutes later he realizes the thing and goes to the machine to insert the banknotes and choose the number of the pump, but he cannot because his hands are shaking; he snorts, pants but wants to seem a bully at all costs !
He is a subject with anxiety neurosis that hides its insecurities behind arrogant attitudes.
Neurosis is a group of personality disorders that, although not involving a substantial fracture with reality, are characterized by an altered intra- and inter-personal relationship linked to conflicting problems and the emergence of freely fluctuating anxiety or converted into symptoms.
Neurasthenia is characterized by:
A) a state of anxiety that is subcontinuous with the characteristics of the «neurasthenic
alarm»; B) hypochondria; C) basic "asthenic" personality.
A) Anxiety takes the aspect of "alarm": an apprehension and anxious doubt
about one's physical condition, focused from time to time on various organs and
functions. Characteristics of the cenestopathy (alarm psychology) which are the
main reason for the patient's complaints and headaches, occipital headaches,
rachialgia, dyspeptic disorders, subjective sensations vertigo or uncertain
walking, visual disturbances without any objective data, disorders of the sexual
sphere. In the absence of such locations, neurasthenics constantly complains of
easy fatigue, a general feeling of physical and intellectual asthenia, sleep
disorders.
B) The tendency towards hypochondria typical hypothesis leads to a vicious
circle: alarm- »hypochondria-cenestopathy-» alarm, a continuous self-reinforcing
of the elements of this neurotic circle. This leads to hypochondriacal neurosis,
where the patient's interests are narrowed around the nucleus of anxious
preoccupation with one's own health and, according to psychodynamic
interpretation, neurasthenic neurosis represents a defensive modality of anxiety
resulting from environmental situations provoking frustrations. and humiliations
with resentment and rancor not expressed. "Neurasthenia" represents a defensive
system against one's hostility. Differential diagnosis: a) with the
neurastheniform syndrome of some initial modalities of schizophrenia; b) with
endogenous depression; c) with neurasthenic syndromes that mark the beginning of
organic diseases.
Characteristic of neurasthenics is the attribution of enormous importance both to the doctor and to the drugs, almost with a magical attitude, which is also reflected in an equally easy loss of confidence both in therapies - which regulate, are never completed - and in the doctor, so the history of these subjects is studded with an endless series of consulted health care and therapies practiced «without results». The mood of neurasthenics is oriented towards pessimism. Episodically, more pronounced mood swings can occur and then the picture can change to neurotic depression on a neurasthenic basis (especially after debilitating intercurrent malignancies).
C) The basic personality is characterized by an insecurity and uncertainty of
feelings related to one's physical individuality ("asthenic" personality).