Nervous Breakdown
January 21, 2010
Have you ever felt the need to break free…when your nerves seemed like inscrutable pins poking you into submission…when your blood pressure levels rocketed into outer space…well then nothing to worry, you are just having a nervous breakdown.
Nervous breakdown is like an emotionally built structure with a pack of cards crashing down at the slightest instance. It is crippling and debilitating.
Nervous breakdown happens when…
- You are terribly scared about something, and can’t face it at any cost.
- When you have more regrets and remorse in your minds freezer, and everything looks like a replay of it.
- When you have built yourself some must-dos and must-must-dos and not accomplishing that in your timelines makes your soul stir up like a pressure cooker.
- When you adjudicate everything emotionally and not objectively.
- The list goes on.
Signs of nervous breakdown
- Total listlessness during times when you have to participate or concentrate.
- Sleeplessness of which the reason you are not able to find out.
- Confusion over small things. Lack of discretion. Lack of motivation. Lack of direction.
- Frequent and unprovoked crying.
- Loss of interest in things that would have otherwise been of interest.
- Aloofness.
- No interest in food or other physiological activities.
- No interest in socializing.
- Willful living in isolation, seclusion.
- Getting startled in sleep; having unreasonable nightmares.
- Showing great sympathy towards oneself or showing great selfishness towards oneself…like dressing excessively, eating excessively, and having an obsessive I, me, myself attitude Causes of nervous breakdown.
- Just an overdose of emotions, that has to be curtailed. It also depends on the personality type. Some personalities perceive everything emotionally.
- Loss of near or dear ones.
- Loss of job.
- Too much socializing resulting in excess smoking, drinking and debauchery.
- Lots of pressure in office. Peer pressure.
- Pure psychological imbalance due to a traumatic event.
- Genetically predisposed to be psychologically affected.
Treatment
- Get a doctors help as soon as possible.
- Try exercise.
- Try meditation
- Embrace spirituality.
- Get a counseling session.
- Socialize with people who will not destruct you, rather resurrect you.
- Avoid smoking and alcohol. They provide temporary relief, but long-term grief.
- Try to change your job. Take a drastic step. Move out of your comfort zone, that gives you discomfort. Move into something that you have always liked doing.
- Analyze things objectively, and not emotionally.
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