Experts began to divide people according to psychological types quite a long time ago. Gradually, doctors began to notice that certain diseases "like" certain characters. So, knowing your psychotype, you can protect yourself from many health problems.
Systematizing the observations of colleagues, the method of determining a person's psychotype was described by Candidate of Psychology Arkady Egides. Most often there are five psychotypes: paranoid, epileptoid, hysteroid, hypertim and schizodide. We will make a reservation at once, that these psychotypes have nothing in common with such diseases as paranoia, epilepsy, hysteria and schizophrenia. We are talking about terms that define a normal "personality drawing".
Any person is multifaceted, and therefore there are no pure psychotypes in nature. But typical character traits usually prevail over the rest in a ratio of 2/3 to 1/3.
The paranoiac psychotype
These people in ordinary life are often called workaholics. They are clots of energy, work from morning till night, resting only in snatches. If you see that someone is writing something on the subway or bus, standing on one leg and holding a briefcase in his teeth, this is a paranoid fellow.
The desire to achieve power, a meaningful post, a deafening result in one's work, communication with others in the form of requests, demands, instructions and orders is its distinguishing features. If a paranoid person has his own house or apartment, then they turn into workshops, studios, headquarters, etc.
This way of life sooner or later leads a workaholic to neurasthenia and frequent outbursts of anger. The regime of feeding "paranoial" is the absence of any regime: dry-fat, fast food, night snacks.
As a result, if in the young and middle age the infractions and strokes are not terrible to him ("the steam" descends in angry vypleaks), then the gastrointestinal tract (ulcer, gastritis, colitis) begins to suffer very early. By the way, the teeth of workaholics prefer not to be treated, but to pull out and put the prosthesis, because they do not have time to sit in the dentist's chair.
In an old age, to which the paranoiac psychotype usually lives, an inevitable atherosclerosis of the cerebral vessels (with strokes) and ischemic heart disease, also of a sclerotic origin (with infarcts), are waiting for it, because the food is wrong: meat (adrenaline, norepinephrine, fats, cholesterol), sugar, salt, spicy seasonings, flour.
Plus the lack of movement (many sit, write). Even emotional detente here will not help.
Epileptoid
This is the most common psychotype among men. He is reliable, thrifty, domovit, scrupulous, but at the same time vindictive and even spiteful that, despite usual restraint, can pour out into fits of anger and reproaches against the closest people. Such a "gentlemanly set" of character traits leads to the fact that the epileptoid is constantly overloaded with various cases and personal probes. Most often this leads to early hypertension and ischemic heart disease, which is fraught with strokes and heart attacks.
Such people do not take too much care of their health and go to the doctor, either when they specifically take it, or at the behest of their superiors for general medical examination. Sometimes admonitions of doctors make him go to the gym, but such impulses do not last long. But epileptoid feeds regularly, three to four times a day, eating the first, second and dessert. So his stomach and intestines are usually in order.
Hysteroid
These people try to ensure that any of their actions, any work, become the object of attention for others. If there is nobody to estimate, then the whole thing can wait. In extreme cases, the hysteroid can play a role before itself, but it is necessary to play, and not just do something.
Isteroids like to cry, which is a direct consequence of their infantilism (delayed development of the psyche at the children's level), but they also quickly move on to smiles and joy. More crying hysterics like, probably, just to rest. On vacation, they forget about work, about their duties around the house and rest with ecstasy, to the point of falling, with drinks, "pineapple in champagne" ... And, from rest they never get tired.
Nightlife, receptions of late guests, when everyone is sitting up almost to the morning, prestigious clubs - that's what an hysteroid is. It often feeds in snatches, dry-wool, in food it is fairly unpretentious and, although it's a picnic for delicacies. He likes spicy seasonings, fried, does not really chew food. Female hysterics are often prone to fatness and to debilitating diets, which, however, are very quickly abandoned.
Diseases associated with the gastrointestinal tract, cardiovascular system, diabetes mellitus, problems with the pancreas, liver, kidneys and nervous system are all satellites of hysterias. True, any disease they use to demonstrate how they are bad, try to extract from not benefiting for themselves and get satisfaction from it.
Schizoid
About such people they say that they are "scientists biscuits". In the cinema, the most vivid image of the schizoid was created by Alexander Demyanenko in the comedies of Leonid Gaidai - the famous Shurik. Such a person we immediately recognize by short trousers with bubbles on the knees, a button that hangs on a thread, glasses, the shackle of which is wrapped in electrical tape, and other pretty absurdities.
The list of diseases in schizodids is usually great initially: short-sightedness, astigmatism, incorrect bite, flat feet, bad skin, leanness, vegetovascular dystonia, etc. No less bodily imperfections: flat buttocks, sunken chest, stoop, regardless of height and age, fingers with thickened joints. All this forms an inferiority complex.
The schizodid is not too picky in food and does not pay attention to how tasty everything is cooked: this is not spiritual food. If he is alone, he eats dry food, and this is gastritis and an ulcer.
Schizoids often get drunk and become chronic alcoholics. Often prefer solitude. They are happy to communicate, but do not trust people. Of neuroses, they are characterized by neurasthenia (lethargy, weakness, sleep disorders, irritability, headaches) and hypochondriacal neurosis (it seems to him that he is suffering from something serious, checked by doctors).
Hypertension
It is "hypertim", not "hypertype". In the word "hypertimulus" two parts: "tim" means mood, "hyper" - elevated. In other words, we have a reckless merry fellow. Money flows from him like sand through his fingers. He spends everything he has, on himself or on the family, and also on friends. Easily get along with other psychotypes, but it must be constantly encouraged, retained and "graze".
Sleeps hypertimulus or too little, or too much. After drinking can sleep, and if kurolesit, then he can not sleep for a long time. His sleep is deep, but he begins to snore already in his youth.
Hypertensions are usually real sybarites - they like to steam in a bath with a beer-vodka, crayfish-sausage, appetite is excellent, but they are not familiar with nutrition in principle. People with this character mostly suffer from gastritis (not reaching, however, until the ulcer) and very often obese.
Drink often and a lot, but they do not drink. Hypertim is lover, partner changes without problems and becomes the main source of sexually transmitted diseases.