This document defines neurosis as a non-psychotic mental illness that causes feelings of distress and anxiety while maintaining a grip on reality. It lists common causes like emotional and hysterical stress, and drug interactions. Signs and symptoms include disturbances in emotional, occupational, and social life. Neurosis is characterized by emotional immaturity and reactions to internal conflicts. Common types include anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, and hypochondriasis. Treatment involves medications, counseling, psychotherapy like cognitive behavioral therapy.

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3. Objective
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CAUSES
SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
TYPES OF NEUROSIS
TREATMENT

4. DEFINATION
› A TERM GENERALLY USED TO DESCRIBE A
NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL ILLNESS WHICH
TRIGGERS FEELINGS OF DISTRESS AND
ANXIETY CHARACTERISTICS.
› HAS FIRM GRIP WITH REALITY
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5. CAUSES
› EMOTIONAL STRESS
› HYSTERICAL STRESS
› DRUG INTERACTION

6. SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
› DISTURBANCES IN
EMOTIONAL,
OCCUPATIONAL
AND SOCIAL LIFE

7. CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
› The neurosis is a purely functional mental
disorder without organic reason,
› a group of “borderline” functional neuro-
psychical disorders that manifest
themselves in specific clinical phenomena in
the absence of psychical phenomena.
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8. CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
› The basis of neuroses is an internal conflict
caused by an insoluble contradiction in the
attitude of a person to the reality.
› Sources
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Social
relationships
Wrong
Upbringing
Human relationships and
conflicts

9. CHARACTERISTICS OF NEUROSIS
› More important features of the neuroses are
› the mental and physical disorganization,
› inadequate response and inability to properly react
to different situations,
› emotional liability,
› constant internal tension and anxiety, agitation,
discomfort, feeling of inadequacy, aggression,
sleep disorders, sexual disorders. 9

10. TYPES OF NEUROSIS

11. ANXIETY
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12. DEPRESSION
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13. OBSSESIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
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14. DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER
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15. SOMATOFROM DISORDER
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16. HYPOCHONDRIACS
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17. › The neurotics are characterized by emotional
infantilism or lack of affective maturity – reacting
unconsciously in specific situations. The factors for
the neurosis can be as follows:
› biological-hereditary burden, prolonged somatic
diseases;
› socio-psychic climate;
› psychological – psychological traumas, personality
traits, emotional shock, Stress.
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18. › socio-economic – social pressure, socio-economic difficulties,
material disadvantages, etc.
› Neuroses include neurasthenia, fearful neurosis, hysteria,
neuroses of compulsive conditions /phobic disorders/. The
differentiation is conditional, because neurosis in pure form
rarely occurs.
› The treatment is mainly psychological in the form of moral
and general social support, through psychotherapy, general
reinforcing procedures, and medicines.
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19. TREATMENT
› MEDICATIONS
› COUNSELLLING
› PSYCHOTHERAPY
› COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY

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21. Conclusion
› A NON-PSYCHOTIC MENTAL ILLNESS WHICH
TRIGGERS FEELINGS OF DISTRESS AND
ANXIETY CHARACTERISTICS.
› DOESN’T LOSE TOUCH WITH REALITY
› STRESSFUL LIFE EVENTS IS MARKET
PRECIPITATING FACTOR.
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22. REFRENCES
› ICD 10 – CLASSIFICATION OF MENTAL AND
BEHAVIOURAL DISORDERS
› FISH’S CLINICAL PSYCHOPATHOLGY
› ESSENTIALS OF PSYCHIATRY BY M.S BHATIA
› DAVIDSON’S PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF
MEDICNE (21ST EDITION)
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24. THANK YOU
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