Neurosis of the honors pupil

Honors, of course, are not born, butbecome them rather early. If the child "by nature" is calm, balanced, every business started leads to the end, knows how to obey the rules, then his chances to become an excellent student are great. The combination of temperament, upbringing, environmental conditions and make the child an excellent student.

How is the neurosis of an honors pupil manifested?

The term "neurosis" was introduced as early as 1776year doctor Galen. It means this term, in Greek, "nerve disease". That is, by definition, the cause of neurosis lies in the psychological, and not in the physiological state of a person.

Specialists identify three basic "classical" forms of neuroses:

• neurasthenia


• obsessive-compulsive disorder


• hysterical neurosis

Each of these forms of neurosis is a disease. So it has its own causes and symptoms. With neurasthenia, the main symptoms are complaints of increased fatigue, decreased academic performance and productivity in other cases, inability to concentrate, physical weakness and exhaustion even after minimal effort, inability to relax. Often neurasthenia is accompanied by headaches, upset stomach, dizziness.

Neurasthenia can occur on the ground for a long timestress, prolonged lack of sleep, mental and physical overwork. Is not it true that most of the students have to experience these factors? The honors pupil "works" not for himself, he "works" for others. It is important for him that he will be told by his father and mother, what grade the teacher will put in the school, and whether he will be set as an example for other children. Hence - the constant stress, tension, the desire to do everything even at the cost of additional loads and lack of sleep.

The status of an "honors pupil" - it is almost always certain limitations. But if there are a lot of such restrictions, even if they are voluntary, sooner or later the child has an inner conflict: the conscious attitude "must" come into conflict with, often even unconsciously, "I want". This is one more step towards the development of a neurosis in an excellent student.

Disease never develops in an "empty place"- its development is always preceded by "precursors", i.e. factors that have already weakened the body's defenses and "prepared the ground" for this disease. So, with violations of the acidity of the stomach, gastritis, the likelihood of getting a stomach ulcer increases significantly.

Neurosis also does not arise "out of nowhere". Specialists distinguish even pre-neurosis, which is formed from a more or less complete combination of the following features:

• suspiciousness, timidity, uncertainty, distrust;


• excessive dependence on significant individuals, shifting to them all responsibility for their lives and deeds;


• anxiety, predisposition to reinsurance;


• increased suggestibility;


• resentment, a state of constant expectation of mockery, attack;


• the propensity to long and hard "experience" their own failures and in general all the events of their life and family life.

Most of these traits are inherent in bothtimes excellent students. It is self-doubt that often makes an honors pupil do everything as well as possible and deserve the praise and approval of adults. An excellent person is afraid to get a "deuce", which means that he will be re-insured ten times. Receiving even the "four", not to mention the triple or deuce, permanently knocked out an excellent man from the rut.

But then, what, any honors pupil is doomed to a neurosis? Of course not! Parents of the child-pupil should be especially closely monitored for his workload in school and at home. Does the child really do something as he wishes, or does he try only for the sake of parents and teachers? If a child has violence over himself, he can not "lawfully" remove the "extra load" from himself. Then the body itself finds a way out - a neurosis.

Can the neurosis of an honors pupil pass by itself? Sometimes it is enough to find and eliminate the cause,which caused the "launch" of a neurosis, as the symptoms of the disease disappear. But this does not always mean the disappearance of the disease itself. Only a qualified specialist can correctly identify the causes of neurosis and prescribe treatment.