For not being psychiatrist, but still thus worrying me about the reader (to a large extent as I) that he is lay in terms
of psychology and
psychiatry, but that in determined moment of the life it can feel curiosity concerning the described behavior in psychology and psychiatry as neurotic, I elaborate this summary, oqual I after carried through to study some sources sufficiently known, the justinian codes of prominent research in these fields referring (which to the end of the article I place the indications so that the reader can by itself evaluate the research that I made). Second, the site psyqweb (virtualpsy.locaweb.com.br/index.php?art=333&sec=31 - 30k): The word “neurotic”, in the way as costuma to be used today, has improper direction and can be offensive or pejorativo. People who do not understand nothing of this part of the medicine can use the word “neurosis” as synonymous of “madness”. But this is not truth, of form some. One is about an exaggerated reaction of the nervous system in relation to a lived experience (Existential Reaction). Neurosis is a way of the person TO BE and to react to the life. The person Is neurotic and SHE IS NOT neurotic. This way to be neurotic means that the person reacts to the life through not normal existential
reactions; either in the direction of these reactions to be desproporcionais, either for the fact to be very lasting, either for the fact of them to exist exactly that an apparent existential cause does not exist. This exaggerated way to react takes the person neurotic to adopt one serie of behaviors (it prevents places, makes attitudes for relief of the anxiety… etc). The neurotic, has full conscience of its problem and, many times, are felt impotent to modify it. Examples: 1 - Ahead of a social commitment the person neurotic reacts with much anxiety, more than the majority of the people submitted to the same situation (disproportionate). Ahead of this exactly social commitment the person starts to be very anxious a senana (before very lasting) or, finally, the person is anxious alone to imagine that she will have a social commitment (without apparent cause). 2 - In surrounding one determined (bus, elevator, airplane, in way the multitude, etc) the person neurotic she starts to pass badly, finding that she goes to happen some thing (disproportionate). Or she starts to badly pass alone to know that she will have to face to such situation (without apparent cause). Still on the neurosis, another source (http://www.brasilescola.com/doencas/neurose.htm) the neurosis: it is an emotional, affective illness and of personality and happens when the nervous system of a person reacts with exaggerates to one definitive lived experience already. A person neurotic starts to have different reactions and behaviors: she is very anxious, prevents to leave house to go the definitive places, she has fear of certain situations, she imagines situations that can make badly, are depressed more constantly, more are worried… at last, a person neurotic feels everything what a normal person feels in its day-by-day but always exageradamente. In general a person neurotic knows of its problem, suffers with this but if she feels incapable to solve it. The treatment more adjusted to help a patient neurotic to deal with this riot is the psycotherapy. The psycotherapy allows deep transformations of personalities and can be made individually, in group, with couple, between family and institucional intervention. In the limited space that I possess I only can make some ocnsiderações on this concept: the 1) its diagnosis cannot be carried through with easiness, due to difficult landmark of the limits between the behavior neurotic and an anxious behavior any; 2) For belonging to the area of ocnhecimento of psychology/psychiatry, a doctor is difficult to efficiently deal with a psychic illness this nature (as well as the one professor is difficult to carry through surgeries after to have read neuromedicina books). I wait to have contributed a little for the clarification concerning terms that very are used daily but that little they are known of vulgo, what becomes them passíveis to be used wide for quacks when they desire to offend somebody.