Correct understanding of mental illness

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At present, most people in our country lack correct understanding or insufficient understanding of psychological diseases. Therefore, they either fear him excessively or keep him secret. To maintain mental health, we should first have a correct understanding of mental illness and psychological counseling. Let's take a look at the following.

Correct understanding of mental illness

First, psychological abnormality is universal. From the perspective of clinical psychology, no one in the world has no abnormal psychological performance, and many symptoms of psychological diseases often appear in normal people. Everyone may have some kind of psychological distress or some degree of abnormal performance at a certain time and place.

Second, when you feel that you have some kind of psychological discomfort, on the one hand, you can't find hypochondriasis, panic and depression, but you should believe in your ability of psychological balance, and strive to adapt to it with an open-minded, positive and optimistic attitude, so as to get through the "stress period" as soon as possible; On the other hand, when the psychological distress can not be eliminated after a period of time, we should not avoid medical treatment, and should take the initiative to seek psychological counseling. Of course, it's not only people with "illness" who need psychological counseling. Even if they encounter any problems in their life, they can accept psychological counseling.

Third: mental illness can be treated. In recent decades, great progress has been made in the treatment of mental diseases. Various psychotherapy, entertainment therapy and drug therapy have been produced, developed and improved. In particular, drug therapy, in addition to the development of a variety of drugs specifically for the treatment of mental illness, drugs for the treatment of mental illness have also come out one after another. Of course, the treatment of mental illness in the drug treatment at the same time, must cooperate with a variety of psychotherapy and patients, their own understanding, information and perseverance, in order to achieve the ideal curative effect, and can prevent relapse. Therefore, many patients with mental illness who are difficult to cure can work while taking medicine, which is no different from normal people. For the majority of normal people, there is no need to panic about people with mental illness.

matters needing attention

Psychologists believe that if people with mental disorders can voluntarily pour out their inner depression to others, it will help to weaken their psychological symptoms; On the contrary, if the patient is ashamed of himself, and always defends others, doubts, fears, etc., it will aggravate the degree of disorder.