Restore the nervous system after prolonged stress with the drug. Recovery after a nervous breakdown - taking medications and folk remedies. The healing effect of water

Hello, dear readers of Valery Kharlamov’s blog! Life is filled with daily stress for absolutely every person, regardless of his financial capabilities and position in society. Which over time leads to the emergence of various diseases, and the quality of life under stress significantly deteriorates. Therefore, today I want to tell you how to restore nervous system and psyche to become happy and healthy again.

By practicing, you will achieve relaxation, which is very useful for the central nervous system, and you will also have the opportunity to rest and replenish your resources. Over time, you will notice that you begin to react less emotionally to external stimuli, and these are the first steps towards balance and inner harmony. The process of contemplation and concentration makes it possible to discover new solutions to even a seemingly hopeless situation. And after the postponed psychological trauma and serious stress will give you a chance to exhale and relax, feel calm and satisfaction.

You can practice on your own; you don’t have to attend group training if you can’t. Look at the article here, even a beginner who has never meditated can handle the recommendations given in it.

2.Sleep

In order for the nervous system to be in order, and for you to feel full of strength and calm, first of all, it is necessary to establish high-quality and complete sleep. Its lack can lead to serious consequences, including deep depression. In the book about human biological rhythms, it was said that after 2 o’clock in the morning melatonin, which is responsible for relaxation and sleep, begins to be actively produced, and in the morning cortisol, a hormone that helps cope with stress.

So, if your schedule is messed up and you are used to staying awake at night, then your body does not have time to produce the necessary hormones, which leads to excessive fatigue and lack of joy in life, accordingly, stress resistance is zero, which causes you to get hurt, or react aggressively to any words and actions of others.

3.Food

It’s also important to reconsider your diet; everyone seems to know about the benefits of fruits and vegetables, but they still prefer semi-finished products for dinner, right? The quality of life depends on the quality of food. Help your body cope with adversity on its own, without using medicines. It is especially important to control the amount of food consumed so as not to provoke obesity or even anorexia. Even though these disorders are associated with the psyche, you still shouldn’t undermine your health.

Avoid eating starchy foods and sweets; as a last resort, eat a piece of dark chocolate. By changing your diet, you will notice how quickly you will begin to get into shape, both physically and mentally.

4.Water is the key to health

Only cleaned. In what quantities and when you should drink it - you can look at it. Swimming or even hardening will also help improve the functioning of the central nervous system. Thanks to this, the body’s ability to withstand adverse external factors increases. You will become more resilient and stable in your reactions, and, most importantly, healthy.

5.Active recreation and sports

Firstly, your well-being will improve, secondly, you will have a legal opportunity to dump negative energy, and thirdly, you will feel happy because endorphins are produced during active physical activity - joy hormones.

The main thing is to play sports systematically, without giving up on training, then your shaky nervous system will come to order and “will thank you.” Outdoor exercises, in addition to providing the opportunity to quickly recover, will also help in the fight against insomnia, if any.

6.Energy

If you feel like you don’t have the strength or desire to do anything, don’t put pressure on yourself, but let yourself be lazy and just lie on the couch. When we lose energy, it is important to restore it, otherwise we will use up the body’s strategic reserves when every action will be harmful. There are many ways to restore energy balance, you can familiarize yourself with them.

7.Open your soul

No matter how difficult it is, you shouldn’t close yourself off, sometimes it’s important to just speak out to someone who can hear you, and it will become much easier. Just pay attention to the difference - if you simply “leak” information without really noticing your interlocutor, you will not get better. The healing power is in the contact itself, when, in addition to your experiences, you notice another person. And then, looking into each other’s eyes, you can open your soul, healing it with attention and understanding.

Methods

Breathing exercises

1. Breathing exercises will help you distract yourself from negative thoughts and situations, concentrate on your feelings and relax. So you will notice yourself in this huge world, you will feel that you are alive and simply exist in this moment. You can find all the exercises in the calming article. Moreover, you can perform them not only at home, but also on the way to work, during meditation and sports.
2. Place your feet shoulder-width apart, take a deep, slow breath, and at the same time spread your arms first to the sides, and then lift them up, clasping your palms together so that they are above your head. Hold your breath and count to 10, then begin to exhale, lowering your arms down. You need to repeat all these steps at least 5 times, then move on to other, more dynamic exercises.
3. Again, place your feet shoulder-width apart, and while taking a deep breath, raise both hands, palms down, so that they are no higher than your chin. Then hold your breath, spread them apart and make three bends to the left and right, return to the starting position and only then exhale. This will help strengthen the central nervous system, restoring the ability to think not under the influence of affect and emotions. Do also at least 5 repetitions.
4. This exercise is similar to push-ups, but standing. Place your hands on the wall and do push-ups, only inhale when bending your arms, and exhale when extending. Do it at least 10 times.

Japanese method

There is a scientist in Japan named Katsuzo Nishi, and, as you know, the Japanese are famous for their calmness and composure. So, Katsuzo believes that the more heavy thoughts hang over a person, the higher the likelihood of his imminent death. That is, people die mostly because they think too often, which means that stress and worry significantly shorten our lifespan. And, in order to protect the nervous system from the destructive effects of the surrounding world, he came up with a technique that helps to relax as quickly as possible after stress.

You need to stand straight, pull the back of your head toward the ceiling, this will straighten your back, and pull your shoulders back, pointing your shoulder blades towards each other. Slowly turn your head to the left, trying to mentally look at your heels, looking up all the way to your neck. Then do the same on the right side. Then return your head to its original position and “roll” from your toes to your heels and back. Katsuzo recommends doing these manipulations with your eyes open, but it will be most effective if you close them and concentrate on your sensations.

Hand whip

This technique is useful because it helps saturate the lungs with oxygen as much as possible, which will have a positive effect on your mental activity. It also increases blood circulation and relieves tension, helping to achieve relaxation. It's very easy to do - try throwing your arms over your shoulders, clapping your hands on your back. Over time, your hands will become like rubber, which will make you feel the effectiveness of this exercise faster. You choose the intensity of the strokes based directly on your sensations. Usually, the greater the tension, the more actively the person waves his arms.

"Chatting"

Is it possible, after a hard day and a lot of troubles, to achieve lightness in your body and confidence that you can handle everything? I will say that yes, it is possible. You just need to stand up straight, relax and twist your body left and right, allowing your arms to dangle freely and move with your body. At first it will be awkward, maybe even ridiculous, but soon you will feel your head clearing and your well-being improving. Just hang out for at least 10 minutes. After which, allow yourself to sit down and not think about anything, observe, as if from the outside, the thoughts and pictures that arise in your head, do not drive them away and do not control them. In some cases, tears may appear - remnants of tension; they also should not be stopped.

Conclusion

If you can’t cope on your own, still try to contact a specialist who, after diagnosis, will prescribe the necessary treatment. After all, there are cases when a person wastes time without seeking help, which is why the consequences on the body are irreversible. So take care of yourself and be attentive to the symptoms indicating overwork, so that the so-called nervousness does not arise.

The material was prepared by Alina Zhuravina.

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Update: October 2018

Nervousness, irritability, internal tension, irritable weakness, anxiety, sleep disturbances, decreased performance - these are the flowers that almost each of us encounters with varying frequency.

Not everyone gets berries in the form of chronic diseases of the nervous system, internal organs and psyche, narrowing of social contacts or isolation, but they still exist. And all this vinaigrette, seasoned with a light crazy flair of modern life, today is usually blamed on chronic stress. Let's try to figure out what it really is, what it is eaten with, and how to get rid of it effectively and painlessly.

When love leaves, the blues remain

• During the time of the ancient Greeks and other Hippocrates and Galens, all human behavioral characteristics were explained by the presence of a predominance of one of the four bodily fluids, which determined the type of temperament. There is a lot of lymph in a person - he is slow and calm, bile predominates - he is aggressive and hysterical if it is yellow or gloomy and gloomy if it is black. And only blood makes its owner cheerful and active.
• Later, everyone suffered from spleen and blues interspersed with hysterical fits. From them they went to the waters, shot themselves, went to the active army and drowned themselves. What serfs, European guild workers and American Indians did at this time in cases of life difficulties is not known for certain. It seems they drank bitters and smoked in their free time from back-breaking plowing.
• A little later, enterprising psychiatrists Freud and Jung explained everything by the suppression of the ego by a ruthless environment and public opinion and took up the emancipation of the suffering Self, one at great expense, and the second at a very high cost, successfully covering the whole of Europe with their psychoanalysis.
• The subsequent world wars, however, proved that in comparison with the world revolution, female hysteria was complete nonsense, and led scientists to a more detailed study of the theory of stress, since the representative sample of those who came from the war fields was very decent for a whole century.

What kind of bitch nerves do they have, and why don’t we have these nerves?

Stress theory tells us that from any external factor that we perceive as an irritant and a violator of the constancy of our internal environment, the body defends itself by mobilizing all regulatory systems. Since it is vital, first of all, to avoid death, the system of catecholamines (adrenaline and norepinephrine) and cortisol is activated, working within the framework of the “fight-flight” paradigm. It is responsible for raising blood pressure, increasing heart rate and breathing.

The meaning of stress is to allow the body to adapt to the changed external world and maintain the constancy of the internal environment, even against the background of infection or injury, even against the background of negative emotional influence from the outside. Whether you're sick with the flu or your boss yelled at you at work, your body needs to mobilize some of its potential to restore balance. That is, stress is not just emotional excitement or irritation, but an adaptive mechanism.

Chronic stress leads to depletion of the body's adaptive capabilities. The system starts to glitch. Instead of an adequate prompt response, paradoxical reactions appear:

• heartbeat at rest from bad thoughts
• or shortness of breath from a heavy foreboding,
• heart rhythm disturbances,
• sweating,
• fear of death,
• pallor of the skin from habitual exercise,
• muscle tension at rest,
• dry mouth,
• spasms in the stomach and intestines.

The main thing here is not to miss the signs of real diseases, which are practically indistinguishable from vegetative storms without additional diagnostic methods. But if everything has been checked more than once, and the suspicion of illness still persists, obsessive-compulsive neurosis is highly likely to occur.

Consequences of stress

• subjective (anxiety, aggression, weakness, fatigue, low self-esteem, bad mood),
• physiological (rising blood sugar, blood pressure, dilated pupils, feeling hot or cold),
• behavioral (risk of accidents, alcoholism, emotional outbursts, substance abuse, smoking, overeating),
• cognitive (weakened attention, decreased mental performance).

The mechanisms of stress development, adaptation to it, and failure of adaptive capabilities are almost identical for all people.

Only the threshold of perception is different. What is an ordinary trifle for one person is a whole tragedy for another.

Variants of group stress are also possible, when groups of people find themselves in unfavorable similar conditions. Moreover, the higher the load to achieve adaptation to difficult conditions, the more likely people react to it.

The study of stress resistance of different population groups and individuals allows for predictive diagnostics, identifying those who, under stress, are likely to react inappropriately or atypically and who are not shown types of work with high requirements for stress resistance.

More than half of the Russian population constantly live under stress. Up to 80% of them develop chronic fatigue syndrome and feel unwell in the morning, have problems falling asleep and sleeping at night, and have difficulty coping with physical and mental stress during the day

Physical manifestations of stress

• Decreased ability to concentrate.
• Irritability, bad mood.
• Sleep disorders.
• Growing appetite.
• Deterioration of organizational abilities (fussiness, absent-mindedness).
• Lethargy, apathy, fatigue.
• Sexual disorders.
• Increased anxiety.
• A feeling of an insurmountable obstacle or crisis.
• Feeling out of control.
• Poor health (muscle pain, headache, heartburn, increased blood pressure).

If your body is screaming that getting up at six in the morning is unrealistic, try to understand it: perhaps your adrenal glands produce cortisol not at 4-5 in the morning, like a person who easily gets up at half past six, but with a delay of couple of hours. This is very common for those receiving glucocorticosteroid therapy.

Lack of sleep of just one hour a day in the short term reduces the ability to concentrate and remember information. In the long term, it threatens problems with cerebral circulation, the cardiovascular system, diabetes mellitus, and immune disorders (see).

In 2007, a University of California study was published on the effects of lack of sleep on emotionality. The results were disappointing: the emotional centers of the brain of the sleep-deprived subjects reacted 60% more actively to the negative images shown. That is, lack of sleep leads to an irrational emotional response to the world around us.

Go to bed before 24 hours

It is known for certain that people suffering from neuroses (and especially) feel worse in the evening and at night. If you are accustomed to suspiciousness without objective reasons, night terrors, episodes of self-pity and chronic resentment towards others - go to bed as early as possible. In addition, neuroscientists say that falling asleep before midnight allows the brain to rest better.

The habit of falling asleep early will also get rid of the addiction to eating your negativity at night with sweets and fatty foods.

Physical activity

• Walk for at least an hour every day (see).
• Sleep in a ventilated area. Oxygen starvation of the brain is a poor assistant in regulating emotions.
• Ways of healthy lifestyle and sports on at a certain stage diverge. Sport should be more like physical education with dosed exercise without stimulants, hormones and diuretics (see).
• Sex is a good option to relieve stress if it is not a long-distance race and does not give additional reasons to be nervous and worried.

About nutrition

• Don't Skip Iodized Foods(milk, salt) if you live in areas where there is little of this element in the water. Lack of iodine leads to decreased thyroid function. The result of this may be weakness, lethargy, decreased ability to work, fatigue, depressed emotional background, and bad mood.
• Don't overeat. Control of eating behavior is not fasting or mono-diets, but balanced meals three to four times a day in small portions.
• Foods that strengthen the nerves– this is lean meat, beef liver, fish and seafood, unpolished cereals, cottage cheese, bananas, herbs, citrus fruits, asparagus.
• Synthetic vitamins Today they have a very narrow range of use for laboratory-proven hypovitaminosis. In addition to vitamin D northern latitudes, for preventive purposes. Vitamins that strengthen the nervous system are group B, ascorbic acid, PP and vitamin D3.

Physical anti-stress barrier

Water treatments

They are able to normalize the tone of the nervous system due to temperature and reflex mechanical effects. Even at home today it is quite possible to take advantage of a relaxing bath, hydromassage or contrast shower. It is traditionally believed that a bath relaxes, and a shower tones the nervous system.

• In everyday life, baths with a water temperature of 35-37 degrees Celsius are shown. It makes sense to add solutions or decoctions of herbal sedatives (valerian, motherwort) to the water. The duration of the bath ranges from 15 minutes to half an hour.
• Among the physiotherapeutic variations of baths, pearl ones are known (with hydromassage, creating the effect of many bubbles). The massage effect can be achieved through the flow of water or air, which allows you to eliminate muscle tightness and not worry about trifles.
• In depressed states, and a tendency to, starting with the French neurologist Charcot, use a contrast shower in different options. Its purpose is to stimulate and relax certain areas of the skin with a water jet of different temperatures, training blood vessels and nerves to adequately respond to stressful needs.

Bath

This is not just an antediluvian variation of temperature stimulation of the skin, but also a whole ritual that allows a person to tune in to cleansing the soul and body and getting rid of everyday negative emotions(cm. ). Combines physiotherapy and meditation.

Hardening

This is a stressful option temperature influence. Trains the body to respond adequately to cold stress. mobilizing all possibilities. With long-term practice, it leads to a paradoxical vascular response: instead of spasm, the vessels respond to cold by expanding their lumen. It is necessary gradually, first by giving up indoor shoes. Gradually moving on to dousing with cool water and doing gymnastics in the fresh air. Terminal hardening options: dousing with ice water in the cold, swimming in an ice hole and walking barefoot in the snow.

Physiological wrestling techniques

Breathing exercises

This is the simplest and most effective method of controlling autonomic reactions. Gives good results.

The most popular and well-known system of breathing exercises is the Buteyko method, whose adherents claim that they were able to get rid of even bronchial asthma and use forced breathing for any reason. In general, any exercise to prolong exhalation can reflexively reduce the heart rate due to inhibition of the sympathetic nervous system. Also, breathing more rarely or deeply can calm and strengthen the nerves. To do this, you need to alternate a short inhalation with an extended exhalation and pauses after it.

• The formula for relaxing breathing, where the first number is the duration of inhalation in seconds, with the “+” sign is the length of exhalation, and in brackets is the pause between breaths: 2+2(2), 4+4(4), 4+6(2) , 4+7(2),4+8(2), 4+9(2), 5+9(2), 5+10(2), 6+10(2), 6+10(3), 7+10(3), 8+10(3), 9+10(4), 10+10(5).
• It is useful to take several exhalations through tightly compressed lips or long exhalations with an open mouth for the combination: “ho” or “he”.
• Rhythmic walking will also help set the rhythm. proper breathing. For four steps you need to take a full breath, for the next two you need to hold your breath, for the next four you need to exhale completely.
• You can also perform gymnastics while lying down or sitting against a wall with a straight back.
• Lie on the floor, place your arms extended along your body, palms down. Breathe relaxedly for a minute, then take a maximum breath and hold your breath for 4 seconds, then exhale as much as possible, trying to push all the air out of your lungs. Do five approaches.

Massage

A relaxing massage is preferable, including stroking, rubbing, and very light kneading of the extensors of the limbs. Therapeutic massage for the spine and vibrating massage for the chest. In addition to professional general or therapeutic massage, self-massage is indicated. For muscle spasms, you can use shaking the limbs (with or without holding the fingers). The fine vibration allows the muscles to relax successfully.

Relaxation practices may include:

• listening to your favorite music,
• aromatherapy,
• yoga practices,
• swimming pool, etc.

Psychological help

Since we have found out that anything can trigger anxiety and nervousness, and some of those suffering from neurasthenia generally independently adjust external factors to their needs, then psychological trainings must move along two paths.

• Take control of circumstances.
• Soften the perception of traumatic factors and reduce their significance.

Thus, first you have to admit to yourself that the problem exists. And it’s not that as a child, dad used a belt, and mom was dissatisfied with her academic performance, that she wasn’t appreciated at work, and her loved one turned out to be a petty creature. There are many circumstances and they are everywhere, and a neurotic personality is ready to respond to any message from waiting for the end of the world to a rumbling stomach.

Since childhood is behind the horizon, you will have to take responsibility for your life without dumping it on your parents, spouses, loved ones, young offspring or random people around you. With such a perception, they cannot be to blame for all the misfortunes that happen to us. Maybe just a little bit, which we will also control.

• If possible, we will immediately stop communicating with everyone who is unpleasant to us. Or let’s reduce this communication to the necessary minimum in the most correct and neutral form: “Yes. No. Thank you. Sorry". And this will be our spacesuit against unpleasant people, and they will not be able to break through it.
• Assertive behavior is polite firmness. Allows you to correctly defend your interests and adhere to your line of behavior even under the pressure of external circumstances.
• Solving problems as they arise. We will stop waiting for something to happen at any moment that will justify our hopes for some nasty gift of fate. And we will solve problems as they arise. Now and today. The past will have to wave its hand and stop delving into it. Plans for the future should be plans, and not an attempt to find another reason to get excited.
• Imagine the worst possible outcome of the problem. If we are starting to worry, we should go all the way and think about the worst-case scenario. Then think about whether it is so scary and what can really be done to prevent this from happening.
• Learn to set goals and objectives. "What I want?" and “How to get it?” are quite reasonable questions to ask yourself that will help you develop an action plan and reduce the degree of neuroticism from not understanding what to do in the future.
• To stop worrying about your health, go through a check-up and repeat the tests no sooner than the doctor recommends. By adhering to a healthy lifestyle, you will reduce the risk of developing serious pathologies, and non-serious pathologies can be treated or go away on their own.
• Write down everything that worries you on paper and for each item, make a plan of real actions that will help get rid of the problem. It will be immediately clear where it really exists, and where they have made a mountain out of a molehill.
• Keep yourself busy with interesting things loved ones, bringing pleasure - a hobby. A passionate person has no time to delve into himself. He's just busy. Be aware of dopamine peaks, plateaus and declines. Give yourself a break and switch.
• Try to evaluate things and events correctly. Try to approach your assessments objectively. Many values ​​cease to be so over time. Is it worth killing yourself and those around you for the sake of them?
• Accept yourself. If only the smartest, most beautiful and successful people actually reproduced, the Earth would not face the problem of overpopulation. Nature came up with everything much more cunningly than we thought. We are controlled by hormones and transmitters that are triggered for any reason, almost like our anxiety.
• Get rid of guilt. You do not have to be responsible for other adults and independent people. Let them solve their problems themselves.
• De-emphasize distressing episodes. Don't get hung up. Switch your attention.
• Don't expect much from others and don't be afraid of their opinions.
• If no self-administered measures work at all, contact a professional medical psychologist, psychotherapist or psychiatrist.

Techniques

Meditation

One of the most effective calming techniques that anyone can learn would be desire. Meditation is focused thinking that comes from Hinduism. More often it is a spiritual or health practice with elements of self-immersion with the goal of achieving perfection or, at least, peace.

It involves detachment from external stimuli by adopting a certain body position, listening to relaxing sound stimulants or music that help control concentration on sensations or internal visual images. IN general outline– this is detached contemplation, which allows you to reduce the significance of external stimuli, stop being nervous and become calm.

Faith

In heavy life situations Often turning to faith helps a person get support in a situation where secular methods do not work. The church provides an opportunity not only to find solace and an opportunity to cope with psychological trauma, but also offers socialization, which in a secular society is quite difficult for certain categories of people.

Autotraining

This is a set of exercises for developing positive attitudes. Self-hypnosis aimed at relieving mental and physical stress without outside help. Combines with muscle relaxation techniques. For example, with breathing exercises. On initial stages the patient is asked to learn the state of warmth in the limbs, heaviness in the legs, achieving them independently by repeating certain speech settings. In the future, it is proposed to learn how to evoke vivid visual images or a contemplative state with closed eyes. The technique is aimed at creating a supportive state or reducing the significance of irritating factors.

Cognitive behavioral therapy

This is a psychotherapeutic practice aimed at getting rid of stereotypical perceptions of reality and psycho-traumatic factors. It is important here that the work is carried out by the psychotherapist and the patient, whose active participation is mandatory. During therapy, it becomes clear what circumstances provoke the problem, which provokes uncontrollable thoughts. How this affects the patient in terms of beliefs, experiences and behavior. At the same time, situations and provocateurs that trigger the alarm are gradually recorded. The psychotherapist proposes a program of work on correction. Most often, it includes specific exercises that should be performed in a traumatic situation and are aimed at reinforcing new skills to combat anxiety. The goal of therapy is to change behavioral patterns and emotional states.

Pets

Do not neglect the advice to seek help from your pets. First of all, this applies to aquarium fish. Observing them works better than any psychorelaxation technique.

All methods presented in the article can be considered both in combination and separately, depending on existing contraindications or preferences. Humanity has accumulated vast experience in the fight against nervousness, which you can only use in your own particular case.

Almost every person experiences stress every day, which negatively affects the nervous system (both central and autonomic). As a result of exposure to negative emotions, various diseases develop. That is why it is so important to think in a timely manner about how to strengthen the nervous system and psyche, especially since the solution to the problem lies in simple and effective methods.

When stressful situations act unfavorably on a person, he needs to calm down as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, many people find relaxation in alcohol, cigarettes or sweets. People leading healthy image life, cope with stress with the help of baths, massage, aromatherapy, tea drinking.

All these options really have a calming effect, and in the second case, without harm to health, but, unfortunately, with a temporary effect. It is worth noting that with minor stress, such methods can actually normalize the condition. But with a long-term critical condition, they can cause harm and aggravate the situation, especially if you relieve nervous tension with nicotine, alcohol or sweets. Such remedies will definitely not help strengthen the psyche and nervous system.

Ways to strengthen nerves

If you learn to accept stressful situations as non-standard training of the nervous system, then you have every opportunity to strengthen your nerves and psyche. The main thing on the way to strengthening it is to lead a healthy lifestyle.

Hardening procedures

Hardening teaches the body to react normally to cold temperatures. Its most effective method is winter swimming. It strengthens well immune system and develops willpower. Hardening has many interesting features. To understand all issues in detail, it is recommended to study the relevant literature. You need to remember the following:

1. The water temperature for hardening procedures should be reduced gradually.
2. The process must be regular.

It’s best to start with the smallest thing - giving up socks and shoes at home. Then proceed to wiping with cool water. To do this, you need to moisten a towel and wipe your torso, legs and arms with it.

After this, you can try a contrast shower (spend 30 seconds under water at approximately 28 °C, and then 30 seconds under water at 40 °C, repeating the procedure approximately 10 times and ending cold water), this is an ideal option to start the day.

The pool is another way of hardening without much extreme. In addition, swimming in general has a wonderful effect on the body.

The skin responds to excellent temperature stimulation in the bath. In addition, this is a real ritual that allows you to tune in to positive thoughts.

Ultraviolet light combined with heat also has a good effect. Therefore, a person hardens himself by walking for a long time or sunbathing on the beach, while the body also receives a good portion of vitamin D.

Physical exercise

Systematic physical activity increases the body’s ability to work, nourishes the brain with oxygen, increases stress resistance and has a preventive effect against most diseases. Moderate physical activity helps restore nerves, and this is very important when it is necessary to strengthen the nervous system.

The best option for this type of exercise would be walking in the fresh air. At the same time, completely easy physical exercises are performed, the person is hardened, the brain is saturated with oxygen and psychologically rests. After just two weeks of daily one-hour walks, an improvement in your emotional state will be visible.

Tourism will help improve your situation faster. Hiking trips provide excellent training and work wonders - within two days the nervous system returns to normal.

Sex helps relieve stress, but only in cases where it does not give unnecessary reasons for worry and frustration.

You can also turn to sports with dosed but regular exercise. . It is better to focus on the following types:

• Fitness.
• Yoga.
• Aerobics.
• Martial arts.

For those who decide to try to strengthen the central nervous system, it is very important to plan your day correctly. There are no basic recommendations; everything is very individual and depends on many factors (main type of activity, working day, age, hobbies). The main thing is to eat at the same time every day, rest only at the appointed hour, and be sure to do at least two useful things. It is necessary to plan your day so that a minimum of time is spent on gadgets.

To restore your emotional state, you need to get enough sleep. Therefore, sleep duration should be approximately 8 hours. Lack of sleep leads to a weakening of the central nervous system and malfunction of internal organs. It is better to go to bed before 24.00, and wake up no later than 8.00. Children, teenagers and people over 65 years old are recommended to get an extra 1-2 hours of sleep during the day. Before going to bed, the bedroom must be well ventilated, and summer time It's better to sleep with the window open. This will help avoid oxygen starvation of the brain.

First of all, you need to pay attention to the amount of iodine consumed and, if necessary, add iodized foods to your diet, for example, salt. Lack of iodine leads to decreased thyroid function. As a result, weakness, fatigue, and depression appear. emotional condition.

The main products that help improve the nervous system: lean meats, beef liver, cottage cheese, bananas, seafood, citrus fruits, unpolished cereals, asparagus, greens. An organism suffering from emotional overstrain needs constant replenishment of useful substances, so fasting and dieting are out of the question. Need to stick proper nutrition and eat food 4-5 times a day in small portions so as not to overeat. At the same time, eat well.

Pharmaceutical preparations and homemade tinctures

Both special remedies and natural sedatives, which have been used for many generations, are considered very effective. Medicine does not stand still, but it is necessary to treat a weak central nervous system with pharmaceutical pills with caution.

Drug therapy

Pharmacy products will help strengthen the nervous system and psyche. Drugs of this type support neuroses, stress and nervous tics. But it’s better not to self-medicate, even if the product is sold without a prescription . Conventionally, they are divided into several groups:

Folk recipes

During treatment nervous disorders You can also use traditional methods. Very effective way herbal infusions have:

Other plants also help with nervous disorders: viburnum, mint, oregano, lavender, motherwort, hawthorn, nettle. But decoctions of such herbs have some contraindications. Pregnant women should treat them with special caution, because some of them cause uterine contractions.

Only with the right treatment tactics can you achieve not only excellent health, but also completely change your life. To consolidate the results and for preventive purposes, you need to maintain a daily routine, move actively and adhere to a healthy diet.

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Modern realities of life force us to regularly ask ourselves the question of how to restore the nervous system after prolonged stress.

Hard work, lack of money and time, troubles: we often throw ourselves into the deep end without thinking about the consequences.

And the price that has to be paid much later is often too high.

How stress affects the functioning of our organs

To ensure the body recovers from stress, you first need to understand how such a condition affects a person.

Adrenal glands

It is this organ that is the first to suffer from stressful situations.

When in an anxious state, our nervous system causes the adrenal glands to secrete hormones such as cortisol.

This is necessary to suppress digestion and immunity in favor of other body functions that help combat stress.

That is, the heart rate increases, blood sugar levels rise, and so on.

Prolonged stress and, accordingly, adrenal dysfunction, over time lead to the following problems:

1. Feelings of anxiety and sleep disturbances
2. Decreased immunity and chronic fatigue
3. The occurrence of allergic reactions
4. Infertility and chronic depression
5. Fatigue, insomnia, headaches
6. Hypertension, asthma and even cancer

Gastrointestinal tract

Chronically elevated cortisol levels can cause increased stomach acid levels, an imbalance of intestinal flora, and abnormal immune reactions to certain foods.

In some cases, this leads to food allergies, inflammation of the colon, and irritable bowels.

Reproductive organs

When under stress, the body begins to produce cortisol from pregnenolone to ensure the availability of other hormones in the body.

In the worst case scenario, this becomes the cause of infertility.

Restoring the body after stress: instructions

During the rehabilitation period after prolonged stress, it is necessary not only to return to the usual way of life, but also to compensate for the lack of positive emotions in the body.

Therefore, you should definitely please yourself with various things.

We have selected short instructions that will help you feel much better.

Point one

Spend time in nature to replenish your natural energy balance.

Walking barefoot on sand, earth or grass will calm the nervous system and improve blood circulation.

You can start learning the practice of anuloma-viloma pranayama, it is also done in the fresh air.

Point two

Do nice things for others.

It is very important to bring as much goodness into your life as possible. This is why experts recommend doing some good deed every day.

If, due to certain circumstances, you do not have the opportunity to perform a positive action, simply concentrate on what you did before or remember the pleasant things that once made you happy.

For example, you can treat yourself to a cup of tea with buckwheat honey or any other healthy delicacy.

Point three

Healthy, sound sleep is the most important factor in restoring the nervous system after stress.

Go to bed before 11 pm and sleep for at least 10 hours.

This way you maximize the effect of hormones that repair and heal your body.

To fall asleep as quickly as possible, take a bath with a few drops of bitter orange oil.

It will perfectly relax your muscles.

Point four

Exercise.

Physical activity promotes the release of negative emotions and substances. Yoga classes will be no less useful.

Unlike simple training, it helps you find harmony with yourself.

Tip: Adjust the intensity of exercise depending on your condition. You should start with light loads. Do not under any circumstances bring your body to exhaustion.

Point five

Minimize exposure to chemicals.

Proper healthy eating, drinking exclusively purified water and using dishes made from organic ingredients will help you recover from severe stress.

Eliminate the following foods from your diet for a while:

1. Chocolate
2. Caffeine
3. Sugar
4. Alcohol
5. Products made from white flour
6. Nutritional supplements
7. Oils
8. Carbonated and artificially sweetened drinks
9. Roast

Point six

Say: “No.”

Don't overwork, don't settle for something you don't want to do.

Live for yourself, let your body rest and recover. Pamper yourself with a Japanese or Ayurvedic massage that will improve your emotional state.

How to restore the nervous system after severe stress

In its properties and mode of action, stress is practically no different from any serious illness.

It contributes to the creation of such living conditions in which a person gradually begins to perceive everything negative that happens to him as something natural and familiar.

An anxious state holds us back, preventing us from looking around and forcing us to focus only on negative emotions.

Among other things, while in this state we lose precious time that could be spent on joyful moments, on fully enjoying life.

Stress isolates us from others, reduces our ability to make rational decisions, and contributes to the further deterioration of not only our overall well-being, but also our lives in general.

To restore your nerves after severe stress, you should understand that this feeling is irrational.

And to avoid further negative consequences described above, you need to learn to manage this feeling.

Each of the methods below requires additional support.

Do not forget to strengthen your body during the recovery period by consuming vitamins from natural products.

Three ways to recover from stress:

1. Fun
2. Meditation

After severe stress, time spent with loved ones, friends, and relatives helps to recover, no matter how trite it may sound.

Doing what you love and enjoying every second helps just as much. spent doing something pleasant.

Tip: Pets are not only beloved pets, but also natural antidepressants. Therefore, if stress becomes permanent part your life, get a kitten or puppy. It will definitely make you smile even at the end of the most difficult working day.

Meditation will help restore the nervous system after stress

Meditation allows you to identify the emotions that consume you, observe the effect they have, and learn to manage them.

Instead of reacting blindly to external stimuli, you can optimize your thinking process and respond exactly as you see fit.

Awareness of your thoughts and feelings helps you overcome stress and become more resilient peace of mind.

Aligning the functioning of the nervous system will help solve problems that inevitably arise as a result of prolonged exposure to an anxious state.

The most important thing to pay attention to is:

1. Mental condition
2. Inner harmony

The consequences of the impact of negative emotions on the human body are frightening not only in themselves, but also in the number of side effects.

They affect women especially hard, in particular pregnant women and mothers during the feeding period.

Loss of milk can be one of those symptoms that should be eliminated as soon as possible, as it affects the baby’s health.

Lactation can be restored after stress only when the mother has completely gotten rid of the stimulus.

Restoring sleep after stress will help return milk formation processes to normal.

Since it is how, how much and when we sleep that affects our overall well-being and quality of life.

Once a person begins to get the required number of hours of sleep and finds a way to stabilize the process of falling asleep, almost every aspect of life returns to normal.

You can fall asleep to relaxing music for relaxation.

Advice: start treatment for any abnormal condition with sleep. It's about not about the use of sleeping pills, but rather about natural stabilizers. Drink a herbal mixture with the addition of chamomile, mint or linden.

One of the most difficult questions that arises during the period when the source of anxiety is already behind us remains the following: how to restore the psyche after stress?

We spend a long time healing the body, distracting ourselves from bad thoughts and struggling with noticeable consequences, but there are also aspects that initially do not have any symptoms.

Mental disorders can make themselves felt both immediately and after many years.

And then you will no longer connect the problems that have appeared with those that existed earlier.

These difficulties can be prevented by timely contacting a specialist.

Restoring mental balance after stress takes a very long time.

Don't try to rush this process, let everything take its course, and then you will achieve mind-blowing results!

Don’t be afraid to ask friends for help, use anti-stress toys, learn a new hobby, and then you won’t notice how quickly you will feel much better.

Various disorders of the nervous system occur in 15-20% of the population. These disorders can manifest themselves as vegetative-vascular dystonia, chronic fatigue, depression, drowsiness during the day and insomnia at night, fears, anxiety, lack of will, headaches, irritability, increased sensitivity to weather changes and other symptoms that are individual in nature.

Despite compelling scientific evidence, outdated, primitive, or erroneous beliefs about the causes and cures for these conditions are widespread. Unfortunately, this is largely facilitated by the lack of proper erudition among health workers. Myths in this area of ​​​​knowledge are extremely tenacious and cause considerable harm, if only because they leave nothing else to do but to put up with the resulting nervous disorders (a myth is a widespread, mass misconception, presented as a scientific fact). The most persistent and widespread misconceptions are as follows . Myth one: “The main cause of nervous disorders is stress” - If this were true, such disorders would never arise against the background of complete well-being in life. The realities of life, however, very often indicate exactly the opposite. Stress can indeed lead to nervous disorders. But for this it must be either too strong or too long. In other cases, the consequences of stress occur only in those whose nervous system was disturbed even before the onset of stressful events. Nervous stress here only plays the role of a developer used in photography, that is, they make the hidden obvious. If, for example, an ordinary gust of wind knocks down a wooden fence, then main reason This event will not be caused by the wind, but by the weakness and unreliability of the structure. A frequent, although not obligatory, indicator of an unhealthy nervous system is increased sensitivity to the passage of atmospheric fronts. In general, for a weakened nervous system, anything can act as “stress”, for example, water dripping from a tap or the most insignificant domestic conflict. On the other hand, everyone can remember many examples when people who had been in extremely unenviable, difficult circumstances for a long time only became stronger because of them - both in spirit and in body. The difference is small - in the correct or impaired functioning of the nerve cell... Myth two: “All diseases come from nerves” This is one of the oldest, most persistent misconceptions. If this statement were true, it would mean, for example, that any army after a month of hostilities would completely turn into a field hospital. After all, in theory, such a powerful stress as a real battle should have caused illness in everyone who participated in it. But in fact, such phenomena are by no means so mass character. In civilian life there are also many professions associated with increased nervous stress. These are emergency doctors, service workers, teachers, etc. Among representatives of these professions, however, there is no universal and mandatory morbidity. The principle “All diseases come from nerves” means that diseases arise “out of the blue”, for the sole reason of a violation of nervous regulation. - Like, the person was completely healthy, but after the troubles caused by the experiences he began to experience, for example, pain in the heart. Hence the conclusion: nervous stress caused heart disease. In reality, behind all this lies something else: the fact is that many diseases are hidden in nature and are not always accompanied by pain. Very often these diseases manifest themselves only when increased demands are placed on them, including those associated with "nerves". For example, a diseased tooth may not reveal itself for a long time until hot or cold water comes into contact with it. The heart, which we just mentioned, can also be affected by the disease, but in the initial or moderate stages it may not cause pain or other unpleasant symptoms. sensations. The main, and in most cases, the only method of studying the heart is a cardiogram. At the same time, the generally accepted methods of its implementation leave most of the heart ailments unrecognized. Quote: “An ECG taken at rest and outside of a heart attack does not allow diagnosing about 70% of all heart diseases” (“Standards of diagnosis and treatment” St. Petersburg, 2005). In the diagnosis of other internal organs there are no less problems, about which - more . Thus, the statement “All diseases come from nerves” is initially incorrect. Nervous stress simply puts the body in such conditions that the diseases with which it was already ill begin to appear. ABOUT real reasons and the rules for treating these diseases - on the pages of the book “Anatomy of Vital Force. Secrets of restoring the nervous system,” accessible and intelligible. Myth three: “For nervous disorders, you should take only those drugs that directly act on the nervous system.” Before moving on to the facts that refute this point of view, you can ask simple questions about what needs to be treated if the fish in the pond is sick - the fish or the pond ? Maybe diseases of internal organs only harm themselves? Is it possible that disruption of the activity of any organ does not in any way affect the state of the body? Obviously not. But the human nervous system is the same part of it as the cardiovascular, endocrine or any other. There are a number of diseases that originate directly in the brain. It is for their treatment that medications that directly affect brain tissue must be taken. At the same time, incomparably more often, neuropsychological problems are a consequence of general disorders of the physiology or biochemistry of the body. For example, chronic diseases of internal organs have a very important property: all of them, one way or another, disrupt cerebral circulation. In addition, each of these organs is capable of exerting its own, special influence on the nervous system - due to the specific tasks that it performs in the body. To put it simply, these tasks boil down to maintaining a constant blood composition - the so-called “homeostasis”. If this condition is not fulfilled, then after some time disturbances occur in those biochemical processes that ensure the functioning of brain cells. This is one of the main causes of all kinds of nervous disorders, which, by the way, can be the only manifestation of diseases of internal organs. There are official statistics according to which in people with a chronic course of these diseases, neuropsychic abnormalities are observed 4 - 5 times more often, than among the general population. A very indicative experiment was when spiders were injected with the blood of healthy people, after which no changes were noted in the life activity of the insects. But when the spiders were injected with blood taken from mentally ill patients, the behavior of the arthropods changed dramatically. In particular, they began to weave a web in a completely different way, which became ugly, irregular and good for nothing (with disorders of some organs, there may be dozens of substances in a person’s blood that cannot be identified even today). Information that internal diseases organs disrupt brain function and have been accumulating for a very long time. This information was confirmed, in particular, by the too low effectiveness of general health measures used to weaken the nervous system, while targeted treatment of impaired organs led to its rapid rehabilitation. It is interesting that Chinese medicine made the same observations many centuries ago: acupuncture of the so-called “general restoratives” points" often provided little benefit, and dramatic healings occurred only when points associated with specific weakened organs were used. The works of the classics of European medicine say that “... there is no need to prescribe nerve-strengthening treatment, but we need to look for and attack those causes within the body that led to the weakening of the nervous system.” Unfortunately, knowledge of this kind is presented only in special scientific literature. To even greater regret, the identification and treatment of chronic, sluggish diseases is by no means one of the priorities of modern outpatient medicine. The “Anatomy of Vitality...” clearly shows how and due to what depression of the nervous system occurs in the most frequent and widespread disorders of the internal organs . Indirect and seemingly insignificant signs that manifest these violations are given. Available and effective methods their elimination, along with a description of the mechanism of their therapeutic action. Myth four: “When vitality is weakened, you need to take tonics like Eleutherococcus, Rhodiola rosea or pantocrine.” Tonics (so-called “adaptogens”) actually cannot eliminate any cause of weakened vitality. They can only be taken by healthy people before significant physical or nervous stress, for example - before long journey behind the wheel. Taking these drugs by people with a weakened nervous system will only lead to the fact that their last internal reserves will be used up. Let us confine ourselves to the opinion of Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor I.V. Kireev: “tonics alleviate the patient’s condition for a short time, due to the individual potential of the body.” In other words, even with a very modest income, you can dine in restaurants. But only three days a month. What to eat next is unknown. Myth fifth: “Purposefulness and any other qualities of a person depend only on himself.” Every thinking person suspects, at least, that this is not entirely true. As for scientific views, they can be represented by the following data: Special areas of the brain - the frontal lobes - are responsible for purposeful activity in humans. There are quite a few reasons that can disrupt their normal state. For example, obstructed or reduced blood circulation in a given area of ​​the brain. In this case, thinking, memory and autonomic reflexes do not suffer at all (except for severe, clinical cases). However, such disorders cause changes in the subtle neuronal mechanisms of goal setting, which is why a person becomes disorganized, incapable of concentrating attention and volitional efforts to achieve a goal (in everyday life: “Without a king in my head”, “In my head there is wind”, etc.). Note that disturbances in different areas of the brain cause a variety of changes in human psychology. Thus, when there are disturbances in one of these zones, the instinct of self-preservation, causeless anxiety and fear begin to predominate sharply, and deviations in the work of other zones make people too funny. In general, the most important psychological characteristics Personalities depend to a huge, predominant degree on the functioning of certain brain structures. Using electroencephalograms, for example, it was revealed how a person’s personal qualities are affected by the prevailing frequency of bioelectrical activity of the brain: - persons with a well-defined alpha rhythm (8-13 Hz) are active, stable and reliable people. They are characterized by high activity and perseverance, accuracy in work, especially under stress, good memory; - persons with a predominant beta rhythm (15-35 Hz) demonstrated low concentration of attention and sloppiness, made a large number of errors at low speed of work, found low resistance to stress. In addition, it was revealed that persons whose nerve centers worked in unison with each other in the anterior parts of the brain were characterized by pronounced authoritarianism, independence, self-confidence, and criticality. But as this unison shifted back to the central and parieto-occipital regions of the brain (50 and 20% of subjects, respectively), these psychological qualities underwent changes to the exact opposite. A study conducted in the USA explained, for example, why teenagers, to a greater extent than adults, are prone to risky behavior: drug use, casual sex, driving while drunk, etc. Having studied the data of encephalograms, scientists came to the conclusion that in young people people, compared to adults, have significantly reduced biological activity in those areas of the brain that are responsible for making meaningful decisions. Along the way, let’s dispel another myth that a person supposedly creates his own character. The fallacy of this judgment follows at least from the fact that the main character traits develop around the age of four. In most cases, this is the period of childhood from which people remember themselves. Thus, the “backbone” of character is formed without taking into account our wishes (in the proverbs: “A lion cub already looks like a lion”, “You were born with a bow, but you will die with a bow, not a rose”). Using the positron tomography method, information was obtained that Each type of character of healthy people corresponds to certain characteristics of blood flow in various areas of the brain (the same, by the way, underlies the division of people into two large groups - introverts and extroverts). For similar reasons, independent of us, individual characteristics of gait, handwriting and much more. With all this, you can easily get rid of many undesirable traits of your character if you remove those obstacles that interfere with the normal functioning of nerve cells. How exactly is in my book. Myth six: “Depression is caused either by difficult life circumstances, or by an incorrect, pessimistic way of thinking.” Obviously, we must agree that not everyone who finds themselves in difficult life conditions develops depression. As a rule, a healthy and strong nervous system allows you to endure a forced change in lifestyle without much damage to yourself. It is worth noting, however, that this process is usually accompanied by a very painful period, during which there is a decrease in the “level of aspirations,” that is, a rejection of expected or habitual life's blessings. Something similar happens in the event of the inevitable loss of loved ones. If the loss of a loved one causes persistent and increasingly intensifying negative symptoms, this makes one suspect the presence of hidden physical or nervous diseases in the body. In particular, if someone in such cases begins to noticeably lose weight, this is a reason to think about the presence of stomach cancer. As for the “sad way of thinking” and the depression supposedly generated by it, then everything is somewhat different: first depression occurs, and only then Various plausible explanations are found for her (“Everything is bad,” “Life is meaningless,” etc.). On the other hand, everyone can easily recall the daring, rosy-cheeked hulks, bursting with love of life in all its forms, but at the same time possessing an extremely primitive philosophy of life. Depression is a manifestation of impaired activity of brain cells (of course, along with this there are also such events as “grief” or “ great sorrow" They can cause depression in absolutely healthy people, but the mental wounds in this case heal sooner or later. Then they say that “Time heals”) It is sometimes very difficult to distinguish depression in yourself, since it can hide under different clothes and masks. Even those who know for sure about their susceptibility to depression are not always able to recognize the next exacerbation of this disease, the gloomy pictures of the worldview drawn by depression seem so natural to them. On the pages of “Anatomy of Vital Force...” there is a complete list of direct and indirect signs which will allow you to identify the possible presence of depressive disorders. Myth seventh: “If a person cannot quit smoking, it means he has weak willpower.” - A misconception that has long roots and is extremely widespread. The fallacy of this opinion is as follows: It is known that the components of tobacco smoke begin, sooner or later, to participate in the biochemical reactions of the body, displacing substances specifically designed for this by nature. Not only is it perverted the most important processes in the body - smoking causes a restructuring of the nervous system, after which it will require more and more new portions of nicotine. When you quit smoking, reverse changes should occur in the brain, which will allow it to switch back to “full internal support.” But this process occurs only in those whose nervous system has high adaptation capabilities, that is, the ability to adapt (well-known examples of adaptation are winter swimming and the opening of a “second wind” in long-distance runners). According to statistics, the ability to adapt is reduced, in to one degree or another, in approximately 30% of the population - for reasons beyond their control and are clearly described below. Adaptive reactions occur at the cellular level, so it is almost impossible to increase one’s adaptive capabilities with the help of “willpower” (for it is said: “You can’t jump above your head”). For example, many cases have been described in which people who want to commit suicide at any cost with smoking, at their request they were taken away and left far in the taiga or in other places where purchasing cigarettes would be impossible. But within a day or two, tobacco abstinence became so unbearable (“physiological abstinence”) that it forced these people to smoke last year’s leaves and run straight to the nearest settlement. Also, the staff of cardiology hospitals are well aware of more than isolated episodes when their patients continued to smoke, even under the threat of repeated heart attacks. Based on these realities, persons with reduced adaptability who intend to quit smoking are first recommended to take drugs that artificially improve brain function - even antidepressants. The situation is much the same with alcohol addiction. Let us note in passing that the adaptive possibilities are not unlimited in persons with a healthy nervous system. For example, one of the tortures used by criminals consists of forced injections of hard drugs, after which a person becomes a drug addict. The rest is known. All of the above, however, in no way cancels the effectiveness of the methods described in the book, which can restore the strength and normal adaptive ability of nerve cells. Myth eight: “Nerve cells do not recover” (option: “Angry cells do not recover”) This myth states that nervous experiences, manifested in the form of anger or other negative emotions, lead to irreversible death nerve tissue. In fact, the death of nerve cells is a constant and natural process. The renewal of these cells occurs in different parts of the brain at a rate of 15 to 100% per year. Under stress, it is not the nerve cells themselves that are intensively “consumed,” but those substances that ensure their functioning and interaction with each other (primarily the so-called “neurotransmitters”). Because of this, a constant deficiency of these substances can occur and, as a result, prolonged nervous disorder (it is useful to know that the mentioned substances are irrevocably wasted by the brain during any mental processes, including during thinking, communication, and even when a person experiences pleasure. The same natural mechanism always operates: if any impressions become too much a lot, the brain refuses to perceive them correctly (hence the proverbs: “Where you are loved, don’t go there,” “The guest and the fish smell bad on the third day,” etc. From history, for example, it is known that many eastern rulers regularly). satiated with all possible earthly pleasures, they completely lost the ability to enjoy anything. As a result, considerable rewards were promised to anyone who could restore them to at least some joy in life. Another example is the so-called “candy factory principle”, according to which even people who loved sweets very much, after a month of working in a confectionery production, develop a persistent aversion to these products). Myth nine: “Laziness is an invented illness for those who do not want to work.” It is usually believed that a person has only three natural instincts: self-preservation, procreation and food. Meanwhile, humans have much more of these instincts. One of them is the “instinct of saving vitality.” IN folklore it is present, for example, in the form of the saying “A fool begins to think when he is tired.” This instinct is inherent in all living things: scientific experiments any experimental specimens always look for the easiest path to the feeder. Having found it, in the future they use only it (“We are all lazy and incurious” A.S. Pushkin) At the same time, there is a certain number of people who feel a constant need for work. In this way they get away from the internal discomfort caused by excess energy. But even in this case, they spend their energy only on activities that can be beneficial or provide pleasure, for example, playing football. The need to waste energy on meaningless work causes suffering and active rejection. For example, to punish youths during the time of Peter I, they were forced to literally “pound water in a mortar” (By and large, the instinct to save vital forces requires a rather strict balance between work and the reward received. Attempts to ignore this condition for a long time led, in particular, to the abolition of serfdom in Russia and to the economic collapse of the USSR). Laziness is nothing more than a manifestation of the instinct to save vitality. The frequent occurrence of this feeling indicates that energy reserves in the body are reduced. Laziness and apathy are the most common symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome - that is, an altered, unhealthy state of the body. But in any state of the body, a lot of energy is spent on its internal demands, including maintaining body temperature, heart contractions, and respiratory movements. A fairly large amount of energy is spent just to keep the membranes of nerve cells under a certain electrical voltage, which is equivalent to simply maintaining consciousness. Thus, the occurrence of laziness or apathy is a biological defense against “wasting” vital forces in case of their deficiency. Misunderstanding of this mechanism serves as the basis for countless family conflicts, and also evokes in many people ideas of self-blame (“I have become too lazy”). Myth tenth: “Chronic fatigue will go away if you give the body rest” Refutation: in healthy people, even those associated with heavy and everyday physical work, strength is fully restored after a night's sleep. At the same time, many feel constant fatigue even in the absence of muscle load as such. The solution to this contradiction is that the formation or release of energy in the body can be disrupted at any stage, due to various internal reasons. For example, one of them is an imperceptible weakening of the thyroid gland (hormones produced by this gland are the same kerosene that is sprinkled for raw firewood) As a result, the metabolism and energy in the body and brain slows down, becoming defective. Very often, unfortunately, such causes of nervous disorders are ignored by psychiatrists and doctors of other specialties. For reference, up to 14% of patients referred to psychiatrists or psychotherapists for weakness or depression actually suffer only from decreased activity of the thyroid gland. Other, much more frequent and widespread causes of weakening vital energy can be found in A. Tornov’s book “Anatomy” vitality. Secrets of restoring the nervous system." Book in Word format. Connection: [email protected]. This is the only address from which this book can be obtained legally, in a complete and revised author's version.