초록

Objectives：Psychasthenia is a psychological disorder that is characterized by phobias, obsessions, compulsions, or excessive anxiety.
Their thoughts can be scattered and require significant effort to organize, often resulting in sentences that do not comeout as intended, making little sense to others.

Methods：Two Patients with psychasthenia are unable to resist specific actions or thoughts,
regardless of their maladaptive natureand have insufficient control over their conscious thinking and memory,
sometimes wandering aimlessly and/orforgetting what they were doing.

Results：The constant mental effort induces physiological fatigue, which worsens the condition. Nevertheless, psychasthenia hasbecome a forgotten disorder.
We observed two cases that are worthy of the original definition of psychasthenia.
Conclusions：It can be concluded that patients with psychasthenia complain of sinking because of a reduction in psychological tensionor an effort to recover the reduction in tension.

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