Constitution Cyclothymic

Constitution Cyclothymic or Psychasthenic?

A cyclic constitution is a stable personality pattern in a person who has a highly sensitive nervous system. This feature manifests itself in the excitability of the nervous system, that is, in a state of increased anxiety. A person with such a constitution is very emotional, but mood swings lead to the fact that a person can experience a certain situation for a long time, regardless of the time and duration of its duration.

In general, if a person has a tendency to change mood, then this is a direct pattern and principle of the cyclotic constitution. This means that he reacts to everything emotionally: small, big, bad and just good. It follows that with anxiety, after some time the psychophysical state stabilizes, and then the body begins to work in the desired mode. However, a cyclic constitution, in addition to the sensitivity of the nervous system and emotionality and sensitivity of character, is characterized by periodic manifestations of well-being. This can be traced from the theory of M. Kretschmer, who assumed the existence of certain proportions between a person’s physique and his psyche. He