Neurosis (Emotional breakdowns)

Mental symptoms

• Emotional distress (often for no apparent reason).
• Indecision.
  
• Problems in communication.
  
• Inadequate self-esteem: underestimation or overestimation.
  
• Frequent experience of feelings of anxiety, fear, "anxious expectation of something", phobias, panic attacks, panic disorder are possible.
  
• Uncertainty or inconsistency of the system of values, life desires and preferences, ideas about oneself, about others and about life. Often there is cynicism.
  
• Instability of mood, its frequent and sharp variability.
  
• Irritability (see more details: neurasthenia).
  
• High sensitivity to stress - people react to a minor stressful event with despair or aggression.
  
• Tearfulness.
  
• Resentment, vulnerability.
  
• Anxiety.
  
• Fixation on a traumatic situation.
  
• When trying to work, they quickly get tired - memory, attention, and mental abilities decrease.
  
• Sensitivity to loud sounds, bright lights, temperature changes.
  
• Sleep disorders: it is often difficult for a person to fall asleep due to overexcitation; sleep superficial, anxious, not bringing relief; sleepiness is often observed in the morning.

• Headaches, heartaches, abdominal pains.
• Often a feeling of fatigue, increased fatigue, a general decrease in efficiency (see more: neurasthenia).
  
• Panic attacks, dizziness and darkening of the eyes from pressure drops.
  
• Vestibular disorders: difficulty keeping balance, dizziness.
  
• Appetite disturbance (overeating; malnutrition; feeling of hunger, but quick satiety when eating).
  
• Sleep disorders (insomnia): poor falling asleep, early awakening, waking up at night, lack of feeling of rest after sleep, nightmares.
  
• Psychological experience of physical pain (psychalgia), excessive concern for one's health up to hypochondria.
  
• Autonomic disorders: sweating, palpitations, fluctuations in blood pressure, disruption of the stomach, cough, frequent urination, loose stools.
  
• Sometimes - a decrease in libido and potency.
  
• Speech defects (stuttering).