What are the characteristics of neurotic people?

(1) The desire to survive is too strong.

(2) Too much introspection.

(3) Focus on life safety and pay too much attention to one’s own experience or discomfort.

(4) Worried about gains and losses, indecisive, often postponing or avoiding making decisions.

(5) Often feel insecure and like to think over and over again.

(6) Overly sensitive to rejection and criticism.

(7) Excessive pursuit of perfection.

(8) Subjective pursuit of objective reality that is not dependent on people’s will.

(9) In a bad mood and not objective.

Extended information:

When people with neurotic personality face psychological difficulties, they will have strong mental uneasiness, which will lead to wrong understanding and misunderstandings that healthy people have. Psychosomatic and physiological changes such as uneasiness and discomfort are mistakenly thought to be pathological or abnormal. The patient himself pays close attention to these "pathological conditions or abnormalities" and attempts to eliminate them.

However, the characteristic of these uneasiness and discomfort is that the more you pay attention to it and the harder you try to eliminate it, the more serious it will become. As a result, a vicious circle of attention and illness is formed, which worsens the symptoms. The patient is trapped in a state of mental conflict struggling with symptoms and feels very painful. The stronger the patient's desire to exclude "sickness or abnormality", the more severe the symptoms will be.

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