What are the treatments for hysteria
Hysteria, also known as hysteria. This is a class of mental disorders caused by mental factors, such as major life events, internal conflicts, emotional excitement, suggestion or self-suggestion, acting on susceptible individuals. Mainly manifested in a variety of physical symptoms, narrowing of the scope of consciousness, selective amnesia or emotional outbursts and other psychiatric symptoms; but can not detect the corresponding organic damage as the basis of its pathology. So what? Treatment of hysteria: Psychotherapy: Suggestion therapy. Suggestion therapy is an effective measure to eliminate hysterical physical disorder, especially for patients with acute onset of illness. It can be divided into two kinds of suggestion and hypnotic suggestion during awakening. Patients urgently require treatment, in the waking state, through the language of suggestion, or with appropriate physiotherapy, acupuncture or massage, can achieve good results. Longer course of the disease, the cause of the case is not very clear, often with the help of drugs or language hypnotherapy, to eliminate the patient's psychological resistance, in order to achieve better results. Hypnotherapy. In addition to the enhancement of suggestibility, to eliminate the physical symptoms of hysteria, can also be used to treat hysterical amnesia, multiple personality, mutism, rigidity, as well as emotionally damaged or repressed patients. Under hypnosis, forgotten traumatic experiences can be revived and repressed emotions can be released, thus achieving the goal of eliminating symptoms. Under hypnosis or awakening, the treatment method of guiding the patient to talk about his inner distress, so that the hurt or repressed complexes can be cathartic, is called cathartic therapy. For the emotional disorder prominent hysteria patients can receive good results. Explanatory psychotherapy. The main purpose is to guide the patient to correctly recognize and treat the mental factors that cause disease, to recognize the nature of the disease, to help the patient to analyze the defects of personality, as well as ways and means to overcome the defects of personality. It is applicable to all types of hysteria except for the onset of hysterical affective disorder. Analytic psychotherapy. Analytical psychotherapy focuses on exploring the patient's unconscious motives, guiding the patient to recognize the impact of unconscious motives on health and eliminating them. It is mainly used in hysterical amnesia, multiple personality and various somatic disorders. Psychoanalytic techniques or comprehension therapy can be adopted. Drugs and physical therapy: drugs for hysterical haziness, psychotic states or spasmodic episodes when it is difficult to receive formal psychiatric treatment. Physical therapy: acupuncture or electro-excitation therapy can be effective in hysterical paralysis, deafness, blindness, loss of voice or limb twitching and other dysfunctions. Treatment of hysteria in children Children's mental health is increasingly being emphasized because children's physical and mental development is still imperfect, and the occurrence of mental disorders in this period may affect their whole life. Therefore, the treatment of mental disorders in childhood has become a major concern of people, and the following is mainly about the treatment of hysteria in children. Causes of childhood dysthymia Children often develop under the influence of mental factors, such as sudden negative life events, internal conflicts or emotional excitement, suggestion or self-suggestion. Imperfect psychological development in childhood is also prone to hysterical episodes. Children's psychology is naive and childish, emotional instability, erratic, susceptible to environmental influences, susceptible to suggestion and so on, once the family upbringing and education is not appropriate, or the parents of their children overly pampered or overly concerned about the protection of the child is easy to make the child into a self-centered, can not stand the frustration and aggravation and other weaknesses; at the same time, dysthymic personality manifested as emotionally rich, expressive color, rich in fantasy. The treatment of hysteria in children is based on the principle of comprehensive treatment, including psychotherapy, environmental therapy, suggestive therapy and drug therapy. 1, psychotherapy: with the child to establish a relationship of trust, through the conversation to eliminate its nervousness, restlessness, and encourage the child to speak out the existence of problems and internal conflicts, *** with the search for the crux of the problem, and then help the child to understand the cause of the disease, explaining that the disease can be cured, so that the establishment of its confidence in the treatment of the disease to overcome the inappropriate character traits and emotional reactions, in order to achieve the purpose of the cure. 2、Group psychotherapy. Select children with similar conditions, age and cultural level to form a group, and take a variety of ways to carry out. Such as systematic explanation, group discussion, collective games, etc., to play the role of mutual encouragement and suggestion to improve the medical effect. Suggestion therapy: the most commonly used verbal suggestion, that is, to tell the child after treatment will achieve good results, and with acupuncture, intramuscular injection of water or 10% calcium gluconate intravenous injection, electrical excitation therapy. Suggestion therapy is suitable for acute attacks and more suggestive children. 4, drug therapy: emotional outbursts or some spasticity attacks on children generally should not use suggestion therapy, can be given to the Valium 5-10mg or Phenazepam 5mg intramuscular injection. If necessary, give a small dose of valium or Librium short-term application. It must be emphasized that children hysteria should not be long-term use of drugs, and children under the age of 10 years old generally do not use drugs, so as not to increase the role of suggestion and consolidation of the disease. 5, for cases that may induce a collective seizure, the first child should be isolated from the first child, reduce the social strong child hysteria, timely relief of their physical discomfort, distraction, stabilize their emotions. Then promptly eliminate other children's nervousness through explanation and guidance. 6, other treatments: for hysterical spasmodic attacks, lethargy, wooden stiffness can be used in Renzhong, Hegu, Baihui, Neiguan, Yongquan and other acupuncture points of acupuncture treatment. For hysterical paralysis, contracture, aphasia, etc. can also be treated with direct current induction electric excitation method. At the same time that children with hysteria receive professional treatment, the family's conditioning and care is also very important. Parents should know more about the child's personality, body and interests, etc., and take the initiative to help the child, minimize some bad hints, and help the child develop a healthy personality. In addition, due to the different causes and manifestations of dysthymia, there are differences in treatment.