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Nursing Care Plan for Anxiety Neurosis

Anxiety Neurosis is the psychological condition in chronic fear and anxiety, there is no specific stimulus that causes the anxiety.

There just are worried about his heart; and almost every event into a cause of anxiety and fear. For example, fear that death, afraid to be crazy, and all sorts of fear and anxiety that can not be classified as a phobia. Emotionally unstable; very irritable, easily offended and angry, and often experience a state of excited or agitated. But he also quickly become depressed; accompanied by an assortment of fantasies, delusions, illusions and sense of being chased by something that is not clear.

Always filled with emotional tensions, and harassed shadows difficulties imaginary or false. Patients often feel nausea and vomiting; the body is always tired, suffering from shortness of breath, sweating; trembling and sometimes suffer from diarrhea.

Causes of Anxiety Neurosis, include:

Anxiety, fear, distress and failures barrage. Patients then entered suppression or repression of negative emotions due to earlier failures. But everything can not go perfectly.

Common Symptoms of Anxiety

Everyone has different reactions to stress depend on the circumstances of each individual, some of the symptoms that arise are not the same. Sometimes some of these symptoms are not severe effect on some individuals, others are very disturbing.

1) Pounding accompanied by a rapid heartbeat
Anxiety triggers the brain to produce excess adrenaline in the blood vessels which makes the heart beat faster and bring a sense of pounding. But in some cases found individuals who experience anxiety disorder continuum heart rate more slowly than in normal people.

2) Pain in the chest
Anxiety increases the pressure on the muscles of the chest cavity. Some individuals may feel pain in the chest, this condition is often interpreted as a sign of a heart attack that actually is not. This is sometimes induce panic that actually worsen the condition earlier.

3) Sense of shortness of breath
When anxiety appears, nervous impulse to overreact causing a sensation and shortness of breath, breath becomes short as difficulty in breathing due to loss of air.

4) Excessive Sweating
During anxiety appears there is an increase in body temperature is high. Perspiration caused brain prepare plans for the fight or flight to the stressor.

5) Loss of sexual desire or decreased interest in sexual activity.

6) Sleep disorders.

7) The body shaking
Shaking are things that can be experienced by people who are normal in a scary situation or make him nervous, but in individuals with anxiety disorder fear and nervousness are expressed excessively, a sense of trembling in the legs or arms or on the limb other.

8) The hand or limb becomes cold and clammy.

9) Anxiety Depression led to the idea and the desire to commit suicide.

10) Health problems such as frequent headache (migraine).


Nursing Diagnsis for Anxiety Neurosis
  1. Ineffective individual coping
  2. Fear
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