What are the treatments for hysteria?

Hysteria, also known as hysteria. This is a mental disorder caused by mental factors, such as major life events, inner conflicts, emotional excitement, suggestion or self-suggestion, which acts on susceptible individuals. Mainly manifested as various physical symptoms, narrowing the scope of consciousness, selective forgetting or emotional outbursts and other mental symptoms; However, there is no corresponding organic damage as its pathological basis. So what? Treatment of hysteria: psychotherapy: suggestion therapy. Hint therapy is an effective measure to eliminate hysterical physical disorder, especially for patients with acute attack. There are two kinds of arousal suggestion and hypnotic suggestion. Patients urgently require the healer to achieve good results through verbal hints or appropriate physical therapy, acupuncture or massage when awake. Cases with a long course of disease and unknown etiology often need the help of drugs or language hypnosis therapy to eliminate the psychological resistance of patients in order to achieve better results. Hypnotherapy can not only enhance suggestibility and eliminate physical symptoms of hysteria, but also be used to treat patients with hysteria, such as amnesia, multiple personality, silence, stupor, emotional injury or depression. Under hypnosis, the forgotten traumatic experience can be reproduced, and the repressed emotions can be released, thus achieving the purpose of eliminating symptoms. In the hypnotic or awakening state, the treatment method of guiding patients to pour out their inner anguish and let the injured or depressed complex vent outward is called catharsis therapy. It can achieve good results for hysteria patients with prominent emotional disorders. Explanatory psychotherapy. The main purpose is to guide patients to correctly understand and treat the mental factors that cause diseases, understand the nature of diseases, help patients analyze personality defects, and the ways and methods to overcome personality defects. It is suitable for all types of hysteria except hysteria, temperament and mental illness. Analytical psychotherapy. Analytical psychotherapy focuses on exploring patients' unconscious motivation, guiding patients to understand the impact of unconscious motivation on health and eliminate it. Mainly used for hysterical amnesia, multiple personalities and various physical disorders. Psychoanalytic techniques or understanding therapy can be used. Drug and physical therapy: It is difficult to receive formal psychotherapy when using drugs to treat hysterical hazy state, psychotic state or epileptic seizure. Physical therapy: acupuncture or electrical stimulation therapy has a good effect on hysterical paralysis, deafness, blindness, aphonia or limb convulsions. The treatment of children's hysteria has attracted more and more attention, because children's physical and mental development is not perfect, and mental disorders may affect their lives during this period. Therefore, the treatment of childhood mental disorders has become the most concerned issue. The following mainly introduces the treatment of hysteria in children. The causes of children's hysteria are often influenced by mental factors, such as sudden negative life events, internal conflicts or emotional excitement, hints or self-hints. Imperfect psychological development in childhood can also easily lead to hysteria. Children's psychology is childish, emotionally unstable, capricious, easily influenced by the environment, easily hinted and so on. Once the family upbringing and education are improper, or parents are too spoiled or too concerned about protecting their children, it is easy for children to develop self-centered weaknesses and can't stand setbacks and grievances. At the same time, hysteria is characterized by rich emotions, strong performance colors and strong fantasy. The treatment of children hysteria is based on the principle of comprehensive treatment, including psychotherapy, environmental treatment, suggestion treatment and drug treatment. 1. Psychotherapy: establish a trust relationship with children, eliminate children's nervousness and anxiety through conversation, encourage children to talk about existing problems and inner contradictions, * * * find the crux of the problem, and then help children understand the cause of the disease and explain that the disease can be cured, so as to establish children's confidence in treating the disease and overcome inappropriate personality characteristics and emotional reactions, thus achieving the purpose of cure. 2. Group psychotherapy. Select children with similar illness, age and education level to form a group and carry it out in various ways. Such as systematic explanation, group discussion, group games, etc. , play the role of mutual encouragement and suggestion, and improve the medical effect. 3, suggestion therapy: the most commonly used verbal suggestion, that is, telling the child that it will achieve good results after treatment, with acupuncture, intramuscular injection of water for injection or intravenous injection of 10% calcium gluconate, electrical excitation therapy, etc. Suggestive therapy is suitable for children with acute attack and strong suggestibility. 4. Drug therapy: Hint therapy is generally not suitable for children with emotional outbursts or partial spasms, and diazepam 5~ 10mg or perphenazine 5mg can be given by intramuscular injection. If necessary, give low-dose diazepam or nimodipine for short-term application. It should be emphasized that children with hysteria should not use drugs for a long time, and children under 10 generally do not use drugs, so as not to increase the suggestive effect and consolidate the condition. 5. For cases that may lead to collective attacks, first-time offenders should be isolated to reduce the hysteria of children with strong social forces, relieve their physical discomfort in time, distract their attention and stabilize their emotions. Then eliminate the nervousness of other children through explanation and guidance in time. 6. Other treatments: For patients with hysteria, spasm, lethargy and coma, acupuncture can be used at Renzhong, Hegu, Baihui, Neiguan and Yongquan. Hysterical paralysis, contracture and aphasia. It can also be treated by DC induced electrical excitation. While receiving professional treatment, home care and nursing are also very important for children with hysteria. Parents should know more about their children's personality, body and hobbies, take the initiative to help them, try to reduce some bad suggestive behaviors and help them cultivate a healthy personality. In addition, due to the different causes and manifestations of hysteria, there are also differences in treatment.