Asthenic condition: not fatal, but still ...

You can not get enough sleep in any way? In the mornings you wake up absolutely not rested? All day you feel weakness, weakness? Are you not interested in the opposite sex? Do not you look well? Can not you work? Do you think hard? Quickly go to the therapist! Most likely, he will diagnose you as "asthenia," or "asthenic condition." Asthenia is a decrease in mental activity, in which a person feels constant irritability, mental exhaustion, and many other psychosomatic symptoms. The asthenic state can be caused by both functional and organic causes. The latter include infectious diseases, hormonal problems, viral or oncological diseases, which weaken the body as a whole. In this case, treatment should begin with the underlying disease. Often happens so, that at treatment from it or him the asthenic status passes or takes place without additional treatment. However, there are disorders that are not associated with the disease.

Functional asthenic conditions

They can be caused not by illness, but by other causes:

• Long stay in a state of stress;
• A hangover;
• Developing depression;
• Hard work, frequent overwork;
• Pre- or postinfarction status;
• Childbirth;
• Sleep disorders associated with the peculiarities of work: interchangeable schedule, the change of time zones.

The asthenic condition, which develops for these reasons, is now often referred to as CFS: a syndrome of chronic fatigue. Unfortunately, many people are familiar with this syndrome today. Is this asthenic condition dangerous? Not always. In the beginning, like other diseases, it can be cured. Determine how far the disease went, you can independently, using, for example, developed by P.P. Maikova and M.G. The devil's test, called ShAS: the scale of the asthenic state. It is always with psychologists. Answering 30 questions, the person himself will be able to determine how far his disorders have gone.

Asthenic condition: what to do?

Such a question is often heard by therapists and other doctors. Naturally, in each case the patient will receive an individual, answer-oriented to his state. However, there are general recommendations. First of all, the asthenic state requires compliance with the hygiene of sleep, labor, control of one's own emotions. People suffering from CFS, it is recommended:

1. It is compulsory to undergo a checkup in order to diagnose the existing diseases in time and start treating them.
2. Observe the regime: go to bed on time, eat, be sure to walk in the air (preferably also at the same time). Sometimes, to regulate sleep, the doctor prescribes special drugs that help restore strength and normalize sleep.
3. Regulate mental, mental and physical loads.
4. Completely eliminate self-medication. With asthenia, sedative pills and antidepressants do not help.
5. If possible, take a vacation.
6. Be sure to comply with all that the doctor recommends. Asthenia, although lasts a long time, but it is perfectly cured.