What is Neurasthenia ?
Neurasthenia is another name for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia. It means the weakness of the nervous system. Neurasthenia is characterized by general lassitude, irritability, lack of concentration, worry, and hypochondria. Neurasthenia is a mental disorder triggered by stress or anxiety. Neurasthenia covers a wide spectrum of symptoms, including painful sensations or numbness in parts of the body, chronic fatigue, anxiety, and fainting.
George Miller Beard was an American neurologist in the 19th century and developed the term neurasthenia in the 1860s. By this term, Beard hoped to provide a descriptive diagnosis of a vague and shadowy condition that could include a variety of symptoms, which were thought due to failure or tiredness of the central nervous system. These included things like pain, numbness, stomach upset, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and even sighing for no reason. As a diagnosis in Western medicine, neurasthenia has faded out of popularity, and it is no longer used, though it is still a common diagnosis in parts of Asia. In most cases in places like the US, many other diagnoses may take its place depending upon the predominant symptoms, and many of these diagnoses are mental conditions. Alternatively, conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome, which is caused by the Epstein Barr virus, might have been the likely cause of some cases of neurasthenia. There were many treatments advocated for curing neurast
