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Low load bearing causes and help
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- Abused, frightened and spoiled
- Physical symptoms
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Magnesium and iron deficiency
- depressions
- Low potency in cancer
- malnutrition
- Differences in the constitution
- A lot of burden
A normal or even strong resilience, however, does not mean that you have no feelings, because grief and pain also affect those who experienced disasters and then start over. Rather, it means getting through and coping with crises. Behavior, thoughts and actions that give perspective can also be learned.
When everything collapses over you and there is no capacity left. The causes of low resilience can be manifold. Often mental or psychological causes behind it. Sometimes serious illnesses such as diabetes or cancer can be the cause. Picture: shefkate - fotolia. External factors strengthen or weaken the resilience. Stable relationships within and outside the family are important in order to develop inner strength, not to break crises; Relationships that give love and trust promote resilience.
Stable Residents develop realistic plans and take the right steps to implement them; They communicate with other people to solve problems and control their impulses.
Abused, frightened and spoiled
For low-load, however, everyday life is a spit rack; Every administrative procedure presents them with hardly solvable problems. This can have social causes: parents who manipulate or abuse abduct children who can not trust that "everything is fine". Parents who "downsize" their children, that is, annul their benefits rather than supporting progress, encourage someone who does not trust them anymore.
The same is true of over-anxious parents who paint the catastrophe at every step of their children. They shape later adults who are helpless in unfamiliar situations. The "worry" about what could happen stifles any initiative. Doing nothing at all promises a false alternative to a "threatening outside world".
Pampering children also promotes low resilience. The victims are not necessarily afraid of everyday life; but they have not learned to handle it. They lack the practical experience, and at the same time they weigh in false security - because the caring parents do not wait in the outside world.
However, people who struggle to cope with stress because they are socially malformed can learn to do so - at least if they have not suffered serious mental damage. Confidential relationships and achievements in the outside world transform distrust into healthy caution. Own experiences separate the parents' fears from their own lives. Pampered learn by experiences in which they are on their own, for example, in which they move into a strange city. But this includes the willingness to give up "privileges".
Physical symptoms
Even those who are socially insusceptible, often show physical symptoms, and a precise analysis is needed. The same applies in reverse: People whose low resilience develops as a result of an illness should not investigate their childhood. Did an initial resilience change, for example due to a heart problem? Then social experiences are at best secondary.
Diseases associated with low exercise capacity include: obesity, cold, meningitis, leukemia, myocarditis, multiple sclerosis, lung cancer, Alzheimer's, anemia, inguinal hernia, hypothyroidism, iron deficiency such as magnesium deficiency and hyperacidity.
If the physical symptoms are in the foreground, this is called somatic disorder. If the physical symptoms are accompanied by mental problems, this is called a psychosomatic disorder. In addition to neurologists and internal medicine, the psychiatrist is in demand here.
For example, a person may be under-stressed because he is overweight, smokes heavily, and has an alcohol problem. Does he eat a "protective armor" because he suffered early injuries? Then overweight is a symptom of passivity as a structure of life. Is the exhaustion reported because he is afraid of going to the authorities? Is that fear again because he fears change? Is it a general anxiety disorder? Is the low load capacity even an attempt to protect itself?
Restricting smoking, abstaining from alcohol, eating healthily, and exercising regularly, meanwhile, helps to counter physical symptoms as well as mental health problems.
If psychological causes exist, a psychologist must accompany the treatment. If the person concerned is so resilient that he has problems at work, everyday life and relationships, the mental illness is usually already advanced. Conversation therapies are at the beginning to determine the cause of the problem. Only then will psychologist and doctor design the treatment: Mental care and medication work hand in hand. Visualizations help the patient to develop a picture of himself as he would like to be: slimmer, more confident, more active, for example. A behavioral therapy helps to approach the desired state.
But if the low exercise capacity is due to an acute illness, pure psychotherapy would be fatal: smoker's coughs like bronchitis, for example, lead to respiratory problems. Protection helps with bronchitis, oxygen in smoker's cough.
Diseases can also be a means of avoiding stressful situations and providing relaxation. The boundaries between imagined and real symptoms melt away. Headache and fatigue are then responses to avoiding a situation. To condemn those affected as "simulants" is usually wrong, because the physical symptoms show that he really feels overwhelmed.
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is one of the most common impairments. One in four Central Europeans suffers from tiredness during the day and feels exhausted. Often the sufferers are physically and mentally overloaded, eat unhealthy or sleep too little - a consequence of the pressure to perform in late capitalism. A chronic fatigue syndrome occurs when these conditions last for more than half a year and despite a healthy day plan and sleep remain sufficient. That applies to 1% of Germans.
The affected can hardly concentrate, have memory lapses, no sexual desire, are susceptible to pathogens and therefore often get colds such as influenza infections, they sleep poorly and little, they suffer from pain in the head, muscles, joints and lymph nodes; Depression, fears and inner restlessness affect her psyche.
The medicine knows nothing exactly about the causes. But it is clear that psychological stress is in the foreground. However, the symptoms may also point to organic diseases - and then they are not CPS: heart problems, lung and kidney damage, cancer or metabolic diseases as well as diabetes. Substance abuse, anorexia and bulemia also manifest in chronic fatigue.
The chronic fatigue syndrome can only be treated long-term. Since the causes are also unknown, the patient and his relatives have to endure the uncertainty. As a first step they can change stressful habits. A behavioral therapy also helps. However, this is often easier said than done: whoever has to constantly bring higher benefits and get less and less money, can hardly raise a living, is in debt, has no time for intimate relationships, and therefore gets sick, the situation can hardly change itself. A CFS diagnosis would have to make sure that he is released from work because of his illness. Changing habits alleviated the symptoms of every third person affected.
When a CFS starts, but has not yet become chronic, it can be easily counteracted: restful sleep in well-ventilated areas, abstinence from alcohol and nicotine, healthy diet (ie complex carbohydrates, low fats, vitamins, fruits, vegetables and fish); Sports and gymnastics, sunlight, relaxation techniques such as autogenic training or yoga; psychological care. Against unreasonable conditions in the workplace but individual strategies help little. Instead of getting the sick to work again in the ill-health situation, the legislator is required to prescribe decent jobs.
Magnesium and iron deficiency
Organic causes of low resilience are magnesium and iron deficiency. Magnesium gets the body through the small intestine and excretes it in sweat and urine again. The magnesium leads the body through the food. If food and drinks contain too little magnesium, magnesium deficiency occurs; Alcohol, nicotine and genetic dispositions cause the body to absorb less magnesium.
The affected suffer from poor circulation, they feel permanently exhausted, the heart rhythm is disturbed, the feet are cold and numb, the muscles twitch and cramp, back and head ache. They often need to sleep without feeling rested. Emotional moods accompany the physical problems: the patients feel confused and forge gloomy thoughts; the world appears gray to them in gray.
Iron deficiency is a mass problem; it affects about two billion people, especially women. Iron is needed to produce hemoglobin and build up the cells like enzymes. The body can not produce iron itself and must take 1 to 2 grams daily. Iron is mainly found in meat and fish, especially in liver.
Red grape juice is very ferrous and can compensate for a deficiency. Picture: Kitty - fotolia Women need larger amounts of iron during their period and pregnancy. Heavy menstrual bleeding, but also inflammation of the stomach and hemorrhoids lead to increased iron consumption. Athletes excrete more iron through the urine and sweat.
Iron deficiency shows through torn corners of the mouth, brittle hair and nails, pain in the tongue. Constant iron deficiency leads to anemia because the body no longer produces red blood cells. Then those affected suffer from dizziness, headaches, their hands and legs tingling, and they become prone to infection.
Iron deficiency can be prevented by lean meat, as well as legumes, white beans or lentils. Coffee, tea and milk should be avoided with meals.
Iron deficiency often accompanies other diseases; Eating disorders usually have an iron problem, eating and vomiting addicts as well as anorectics.
depressions
Depression greatly restricts the experience, behavior and performance. Depressed people feel hopeless and empty inside. Guilt mates with fear, despair with grief, and in a severe depression, they feel nothing at all; they feel "petrified". Between them and the outside world seems to be a bell jar that they can not break through; Communication with other people seems impossible.
All thoughts of one's own abilities slip into the negative; The society develops for them in an exclusively gloomy direction. They can barely concentrate, torture themselves with self-criticism and think of suicide. Typical delusions are: to suffer from an incurable disease, to be hated by the family and to be a failure. In the depressive phase, the sufferers rarely convince themselves that they only live through one phase.
Depressed people break friendships, end their hobbies, do not go to work and can not stand it. Mostly they lie down in the bed and stare at the wall. They speak as quietly as monosyllabic, her face looks frozen. They sleep little and wake up early; they hardly eat and lose weight; they have no sexual desire; her whole body hurts.
Depressive phases take several weeks, months, and sometimes even years. Easier depression, but chronic, is called dysthymia. It usually begins after puberty.
Long periods of depression are dangerous because the person perceives them as part of their personality. He does not see himself as a victim of a passing disease, but considers the hopelessness of his inner being.
The vernacular uses the term depression negligently. "I am currently depressed" usually means "I feel beaten down". This negligence has fatal consequences for the treatment of people who are really depressed: those who feel depressed, be it because they lost their job or their partner, go through an emotional valley, but usually come out there again - for example through self-discipline.
Worse still, a sick person who can not change his condition finds himself near the eternal grumbler who spoils the mood of others. The best way to ignore them in the situation and to generally avoid contact with them is with such "meanmakers". Clinically depressives, on the other hand, need professional help as well as loving care.
Anyone who has experience with clinically depressed people uses the term cautiously, and depressive illnesses can be clearly distinguished from those who are normally distressed. Real depressives seldom complain to others; they are physically unable to do so. Often, they do not look for a doctor because of mental but physical problems, for example, to have sleeping pills prescribed. They feel paralyzed, and their drive weakness is not a "whim" like the "zero buck" feeling of a teenager. Other depressives are restless, running back and forth. Both have in common a sense of existential despair.
The advice to motivate a "normally listless" exacerbates the suffering of a depressive instead of relieving it. "Biting his teeth together" drives him even more into the false idea of being responsible for his own condition. The tip to do something with others mercilessly shows him that he can not.
To suggest to him "reality is not so gloomy" questions his perception, in fact depressives see their environment clearly - too clearly: depressives consider themselves worthless; they feel guilty - whatever. They feel responsible for disasters in their environment with which they have little to do. In spite of this distorted perspective, depressives, however, sometimes perceive reality better than "healthy people" - in a way that is negative for them.
This is shown by the bulb test: the subjects press a button, sometimes the light goes on, with other participants, the bulb shines at random. Too often, non-depressives mean that they turn on the lamp. Depressed, on the other hand, are surprisingly close to the real relationship between pressing the button and the light. So you can not be misled.
They lack the positive self-suggestion. Whether my company succeeds or fails is almost always luck, or more precisely, external conditions that we can not influence. Religious practices arose out of an effort to control the environment. Without positive suggestions, hardly anyone would probably write a novel or a doctoral thesis. Politicians, artists or scientists are also successful because they believe (or pretend) to be responsible for important developments. In fact, most of them happened to be in the right place at the right time.
The sense of powerlessness of the depressive is often realistic. This hyperrealism drives the sufferer into despair to the point of suicide. Then a depressive needs immediate professional help, because his suicidal fantasies are not an attempt to catch attention, but deadly serious. It is dangerous to talk him out of his friendliness. he needs psychiatric help to be protected from himself. This is best done in a closed ward, since modern antidepressants only work after weeks.
Such antidepressants bring the messenger substances in the patient's brain back into balance. For this he needs a psychotherapy, because physical sensation and depressive thoughts are inseparably connected. The therapy is based on simple behavior: A depressive who does not go out of bed makes his suffering worse.
Firstly, the therapist tries to get the patient out of his inertia, and secondly, he gives him situations that reward him. Good experiences with severely depressed people meanwhile promise therapy dogs. Those affected feel a wall between themselves and other people. Dogs break through this wall and can persuade the sick to reconnect with people step by step. (The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, March 2007).
Low potency in cancer
All types of cancer mean, in a progressive stage, low resilience. However, for someone who suffers from end-stage lung cancer, low resilience is the smallest problem. Often, however, overlooked the low resilience of people who survived the cancer. They need targeted support.
The so-called fatigue syndrome refers to permanent fatigue after cancer treatment. A cytostatic therapy, for example, restricts the formation of blood - which means low resilience. Anyone who has cancer as a child is generally traumatized as an adult. This can manifest as depression or anxiety disorder. Those affected isolate themselves socially and sometimes become unfit for work.
This also applies to the relatives. Children who care for their mothers to death easily lose connection at school, and are also plagued by fears. Although they are often mature compared to peers, they had to deal with existential situations that rob them of the energy needed for age-specific preparation for work.
Chemotherapy often leads to late damage. Unfortunately, care is often taken in aftercare only if the cancer comes back. Heart disease, diabetes, metabolic disorders or a lack of bone density are among the common sequelae. They all limit the capacity.
malnutrition
Malnutrition means that the body does not get enough nutrients, energy and protein. Whoever does not eat enough in the long run, feeds poorly. But even those who eat unbalanced, refuses his body the necessary vitamins and minerals.
The symptoms of malnutrition are often misinterpreted and are often associated with a generally unhealthy lifestyle. Those who eat unbalanced, because he works overtime, also smokes a lot, sleeps too little and does not do sports, probably takes the poor diet as a trigger for his discomfort. Old people quickly attribute episodes of malnutrition to their age.
The symptoms of malnutrition are also typical for mental health problems and serious organic diseases: Nutritional deficiency shows as loss of appetite, weight loss, diarrhea and nausea - but this also applies to lovesickness and gastrointestinal infections. Mental suffering can also be a reason to eat poorly. A healthy diet does not work miracles here, but it also helps against emotional suffering. For the consequences of malnutrition such as physical weakness, lack of motivation and exhaustion, force cloudy thoughts.
Malnutrition has several causes: serious eating disorders like bulemia and anorexia necessarily go hand in hand with an imbalanced diet. Anorexics feed poorly because they do not eat enough; Eating and vomiting addicts do not consume enough nutrients because they vomit them before the body can put them to work.
In the industrialized countries, poor people often suffer from an imbalanced diet, ie a lack of quality. Junk food usually has far too much sugar, simple carbohydrates and fats, while vitamins and minerals are largely missing. Alcoholics and heroin addicts usually neglect to balance the poison with minerals; they need water, salts and vitamins.
In the Third World and traditional cultures, a balanced diet is often not possible. In the Amazon, Papua New Guinea and much of Africa, food is mainly starch, derived from yams or sweet potatoes. Vitamin deficiency is widespread.
In the industrialized countries, however, a balanced diet is possible - even on a budget. Fresh or frozen vegetables and fruits for the vitamins, fish for the protein and omega fats, plus juices, pulses for the fiber, wholemeal bread for complex carbohydrates, and milk for calcium are already enough to prevent malnutrition. Brocolli and cauliflower, kale and cabbage are "energy bombs". However, homeless people lack the opportunity to prepare fresh food themselves, and many working people have a life structure that contradicts a well-balanced diet plan.
Differences in the constitution
Every person is different. Those who are less resilient in one area often endure situations in which "resilient" despairs. Highly sensitive people, for example, are often considered to be low burden if they are "in the wrong place at the wrong time." But they are not ill.
High sensitivity is not a personality disorder, but a perception without which no society gets along. One person in five reacts much more sensitively to stimuli than the others because of his genetic material. This difference requires special support. Highly sensitive people notice nuances that others do not notice. They understand the symbolic language of dreams and place themselves in imaginary worlds. They are very sensitive and are very interested in spiritual issues. Highly sensitive people are quickly flooded by stimuli. The attempt to adapt to the norm, to "pull together" would be fatal. Because highly sensitive people can not stand less than others, but have to work more. They need a low-impact retreat to focus their thoughts. Their performance is therefore highly dependent on the environment. Overstimulation quickly leads to emotional outbursts.
They appear to be low-loadable because they are sensitive to smells, smoke, vapors or pollens, get used to continuous noise, perceive optical and acoustic impressions more intensively. They are easily frightened, excitable, and can not stand stress. When "too much going on" they retire. They perform poorly in exams if someone controls them. Because they have to process more stimuli than "normal" sensible, they exhaust faster - they are therefore low load capacity.
However, highly sensitive people show how important a work environment is that meets the individual's needs. The supposed weaknesses are strengths, if they are promoted: the highly sensitive can concentrate extremely well, their empathy far exceeds that of the "normal" by far. They think in larger contexts, have a strong intuition, a fine sense of justice, a keen imagination, perceive psychic relationships in the workplace, weigh decisions carefully, reflect on their own actions, work conscientiously to the urge for perfection and learn to the high Older.
No company that takes humanity seriously can renounce its social abilities: the hypersensitive feels more connected to other people than the other way around, they perceive the feelings of others intensively and listen carefully. They try to create harmony even under extreme conditions.
A lot of burden
Some people are "inherently" robust. They accept fatalities or do not even realize them. Others are sensitive and more responsive to stimuli. Depending on where someone has his "archilles heel", he has a low load there: who suffers from a dog phobia, as a waiter in a beer garden, where dogs are constantly lying around, permanently loaded. If my coworker suffers from a smoke allergy, he is not immediately a "mimosa", because as a chain smoker I do not have this problem.
If I am an excellent programmer, but can not lift with difficulty due to a herniated disc, I am not generally resilient; vice versa, if I work as a furniture movers but do not know how to use a computer.
So if somebody feels stressed, it is first of all to take it seriously, even if the majority of employees do not have this problem. Nervous complaints in the stomach, intestine or heart are serious warning signs - as well as sweating, headaches and muscle tension. In addition, if the sufferer becomes increasingly impatient, flares up, his performance drops, and he tires prematurely, the team is in demand. Instead of pushing him to hold out, there's a conversation about what his complaints are.
Often, the working climate and working conditions are the reason for the drop in performance. Bullying leads to just the stress that triggers low resilience: who is afraid to go to work, who distrusts his employees (rightly), who feels exactly when the exhaustion that characterizes low resilience. Low-skilled are also highly qualified, who completed their studies with top marks, but as adults suffer from bullying in school. Whosoever humiliates his "classmates" as "nerds", and therefore who occupies social relationships with fear, despairs of situations that are normal for employees who do not have such experiences.
Those who limit individual triggers in its quality of work can be helped by simple means - be it another cleanser for allergic reactions to a chemical, or by removing cobwebs when a colleague suffers from spider phobia.
However, if occupation and resilience are incompatible, a career change is the consequence. For example, whoever became a teacher because of the supposedly short working hours, the appealing salary and the supposedly long vacation, and who is now overburdened when he sits opposite groups of pubescent students, has chosen the wrong profession.
In the meantime, the motto for all forms of low resilience is: everyone according to his abilities, each according to his needs. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)