Because of their own physiological characteristics and the pressure of the special social environment, psychological disorders and mental illnesses appear more often than men. According to a survey by foreign psychologists, the ratio of male to female patients receiving psychiatric treatment is about 1:2, with women being higher than men. The same result is also found in the survey of domestic psychologists.
The Shandong Psychiatric Epidemiology Survey Group identified 1161 patients with various psychiatric disorders in the province’s sample group, of whom 462 were men and 699 were women. The prevalence of logical mental disorders was 7.73%; the total prevalence of females was 11.7%. It is evident that the prevalence of psychological disorders is significantly higher in women than in men. From a psychological point of view, any psychological and behavioral inability to achieve good adaptation with the surrounding environment is a sign of psychological disorders. The common psychological disorders in women are mainly the following:
1. Hysteria
Hysteria, also known as hysteria, is mostly caused by strong mental stimulation and psychological damage leading to brain dysregulation, presenting psychopathy. Women with hysteria exhibit blurred consciousness, bouts of crying and laughing, and babbling. When the reaction is strong, they grab their hair, tear clothes, rap and curse, roll around, hit the wall, and have no fear. Patients also appear to varying degrees as motor disorders and sensory disorders. For example, sudden twitching of limbs or straightening of the whole body, blindness, deafness, and aphasia. The majority of patients with this disease are women of prime age, with the majority of rural women.
The World Health Organization mental health experts point out that all people have their own specific personalities. The different personalities are not only related to the person’s life, school and work, but often have a close relationship with having a mental illness.
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2. Neurasthenia
Neurasthenia is a disorder of the higher nervous system of the brain caused by chronic overstress, negative emotions such as heavy thought load, and extreme fatigue. The abnormal psychological manifestations of neurasthenia are: frequent headaches, dizziness, irritability, both excitement and fatigue, difficulty sleeping at night, mental depression, difficulty concentrating, memory loss, and emotional agitation.
3. Depression
Anyone can get caught up in this disease because of various factors. The complications of depression are usually the result of several physiological and environmental factors interacting with each other. In addition to psychological and environmental stressors, people with depression also fall into depressed moods because of deficiencies in the brain neurotransmitter serotonin. In the past, the burden and stress caused by psychological disorders on society or individuals was often overlooked. But now, mental illness, including depression, has seriously affected the global society. If people remain unwilling to face and confront the devastation that depression can cause, it will be easier for the disorder to take hold and erode helpless sufferers, pushing them into the abyss.
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The disorder is a neuropathic response to chronic depression and worry, characterized by the following:
1. Physical and physiological adverse reactions, such as lack of appetite, insomnia, easy fatigue, and in some cases a slightly hunched posture; 2. Negative cognitive and motivational reactions, such as low self-esteem, denial of self or self-distorted, always thinking that life is hopeless and lacking in aggressiveness; 3. negative reactions in emotions, such as depression, emotional indifference, crying, and much sadness; 4. delusions, suicidal ideation, and always feeling that their existence is worthless.
4. Anxiety disorders
Anxiety disorders develop when stimulated by stronger psychological factors such as frustration in family life or at work, illness and death of a loved one, and interpersonal conflicts. The patient’s abnormal psychological manifestations are: heavy mood, lack of security, always feel that others are endangering themselves, often anticipate the worst things will happen, appear inexplicable sense of catastrophe, and often distracted, fidgety. At the same time, accompanied by plant nerve dysfunction and somatic symptoms. The first of these is a numbness in the fingers, a chill in the limbs, a feeling of pressure in the chest, a loss of appetite, and a burning sensation in the stomach.
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5. Menopause syndrome
Menopause in women, also known as menopause, refers to the period before and after the last menstrual period. The first fluctuation is the “rising tide” of sex hormones, which takes people from childhood into adolescence; the second fluctuation is the “ebbing tide” of sex hormones, which takes people from adulthood into menopause.
The “ebb” of sex hormones occurs between the ages of 45-55 for women and roughly 55-60 for men. The men’s pathological response to menopause is generally less pronounced during this period. In women, menopause begins with a gradual decline and atrophy of the ovaries, a decrease in hormone secretion, and a decline in gonadal function until ovulation stops and menstruation is discontinued. The first of these is the first time that a woman has been given a chance to be a part of the family.
The symptoms of menopausal syndrome in women are, psychologically, nervousness, irritability, emotional instability, suspicion, and irritability; physiologically, feeling hot and cold, dizziness and headache, insomnia and tinnitus, panic and hand trembling, tingling of the limbs, and fatigue.
Research in medical psychology has shown that psychiatric factors are important in the development of menopausal syndrome. In addition, patients with menopausal syndrome often have character defects before the disease. According to the statistics of 41 patients in Beijing Medical College, 44% of them were characterized by narrow-mindedness, sensitivity and restraint, silence and sulking. The most important thing is to avoid or reduce the uncomfortable symptoms of menopause and to pay attention to your own psychological adjustment section.