著者

津金 英雄 伊藤 克人 樋口 正元

出版者

一般社団法人 日本心身医学会

雑誌

心身医学 (ISSN:03850307)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.29, no.7, pp.661-665, 1989-12-01 (Released:2017-08-01)

被引用文献数

1

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A male company employee, unmarried 46-year-old, had been engaged in computer related business for the past 26 years. Since March, 1986,when the merger of the company became an issue, he had not got enough time to sleep on account of the preparation for it. He was suffering from insomnia. At that time he was diagnosed as vegetative dystonia because anorexia and emotional irritability. He was given a tranquilizer.Toward the end of September in the same year, he was brought to the hospital of a medical college due to an attack of dyspnea and received emergency treatment. After that, he was referred to the department of psychiatry where he was treated for the diagnosis of depressive state.He was afflicted as ever, however, with such multiple symptoms as dyspnea, insomnia, night sweat, nausea, anorexia, anxiety, emotional irritability, loose idea, feeling of fatigue and so on. In April of 1987,he was treated at home for a whole month. At the beginning of May, he was allowed to work at a department which was unrelated to the computer, on favorable conditions that he was permitted to go to work late, go home early and do an easy work. In about a month, as his state promptly improved, he was returned to the ordinary work. At present, 10 months since then, he is working without any abnormality.In this case, his memorandum which is like a computer flow chart, his own personality and his clinical course were definitely characteristic. So he was considered as technostress syndrome (Techno-centered).