Presentation
Poster session presented at the Eighth AnnualConvention of the American Psychological Society; Toronto, Ontario; August,1996. 17. Cheung FM. Conceptualization of psychiatric illness andhelp-seeking behavior among Chinese. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Entire Body System
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Malaise
The malaise was dubbed 'Americantitis' by philosopher William James who suggested people were paying the price for America being so advanced. [dailymail.co.uk]
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Chinese Herbal Drugs
‘Review of the catalogue of Chinese herbal drugs showed that treatment of symptoms associated with neurasthenia was indicated in 10 patent drugs of Chinese herbs.’ [lexico.com]
Psychiatrical
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Type A Personality
[…] of personality characterized by hypersensitivity, introversion,self-consciousness, perfectionism and hypochondriacaldisposition.” 9 Morita therapy, which involves a period of mandatory rest and isolation and aperiod of progressively harder work, leading [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Neurologic
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Irritability
[…] noun mass noun dated An ill-defined medical condition characterized by lassitude, fatigue, headache, and irritability, associated chiefly with emotional disturbance. [lexico.com]
Fatigue is the essential symptom for both diagnoses;others that overlap include muscle pain, headaches, inability to concentrate,irritability, and sleep disturbance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
'Physicians testified that, without a doubt, modern civilisation was causing a host of ills - everything from irritability to insomnia, lethargy to weight loss, anxiety to lack of ambition, and indigestion to impotence. [dailymail.co.uk]
Freud included a variety of physical symptoms in this category, including fatigue, dyspepsia with flatulence, and indications of intra-cranial pressure and spinal irritation. [6] In common with some other people of the time, he believed this condition [en.wikipedia.org]
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Dizziness
It is listed as shenjing shuairuo, a condition“characterized by physical and mental fatigue, dizziness, headaches,other pains, concentration difficulties, sleep disturbance, and memoryloss.” 1 p48 The Tenth Revision of the World Health Organization's [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] medical profession soon afterwards as Sigmund Freud shed more light on the way the body is connected to the mind DIAGNOSIS AND CURES FOR THE CONDITION From 1869, neurasthenia became a 'popular' diagnosis, expanding to include such symptoms as weakness, dizziness [dailymail.co.uk]
Eventually he separated it from anxiety neurosis, though he believed that a combination of the two conditions existed in many cases. [6] Diagnosis [ edit ] From 1869, neurasthenia became a "popular" diagnosis, expanding to include such symptoms as weakness, dizziness [en.wikipedia.org]
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Sleep Disturbance
Three ofthe following five symptoms are required: “weakness” symptoms,“emotional” symptoms, “excitement” symptoms,tension-induced pain, and sleep disturbance. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The modern CCMD classifies it as a persistent mental disorder diagnosed with three of these five symptoms: "'weakness' symptoms, 'emotional' symptoms, 'excitement' symptoms, tension-induced pain, and sleep disturbances" not caused by other conditions. [en.wikipedia.org]
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Somnolence
[…] lethargy, inertia, listlessness, lack of energy, lifelessness, inactivity, inaction, slowness, languor, languidness, torpor, torpidity, dullness, heaviness, apathy, passivity, weariness, tiredness, lassitude, fatigue, sleepiness, drowsiness, enervation, somnolence [lexico.com]
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Somnambulism
‘In case after case, from somnambulism to neurasthenia to ‘Yuppie flu,’ we see how medical and cultural trends alternately reinforce and erode particular psychosomatic symptoms.’ [lexico.com]
Treatment
‘Whether it is a lung disease or neurasthenia, the symptoms and treatment methods are not uniform.’ [lexico.com]
This treatment, which has its basis inZen Buddhism, is aimed at breaking the cycle of sensitivity and anxiety (see www.morita-therapy.org ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Treatment [ edit ] Beard, with his partner A.D. Rockwell, advocated first electrotherapy and then increasingly experimental treatments for people with neurasthenia, a position that was controversial. [en.wikipedia.org]
However, electrotherapy and more experimental treatments were also advocated, along with a drug called 'Americantitis Elixir'. [dailymail.co.uk]
Etiology
China In the 1983 version of Chinese-English Terminology of TraditionalChinese Medicine, the etiology of neurasthenia is described as a decreasein vital energy ( qi ). [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Epidemiology
They found that those students in whom neurasthenia wasdiagnosed had experienced symptoms of depression, as measured by the Centerfor Epidemiological Studies-DepressionScale. 14 Zheng and colleagues studied data from the Chinese American PsychiatricEpidemiological [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Factsabout Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Atlanta, GA: US Dept of Healthand Human Services; 1994. 8. [ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]