What are the symptoms of mental illness? How to treat mental illness?

In life, people may see some people with abnormal words and actions, and they may be mentally abnormal for some external or internal reasons. Under normal circumstances, such people should stay away from each other. If they get hurt, it will be bad. So what are the symptoms of mental illness? How to treat mental illness? .

1, symptoms of mental illness

1, personality change. Personality becomes different from usual, such as withdrawn, unwilling to meet people, often in a daze, laughing alone, pessimistic, indifferent to people, reduced interest in things, suspicious all day, changeable mood, hostility to others, unreasonable temper or nervous fear, long-term avoidance of social and work, etc.

2. Abnormal behavior. Behaviors have obviously changed or become incomprehensible, such as looking in the mirror for a long time, not washing your face and combing your hair all day, declining work ability, sleeping upside down day and night, walking against the wall, wearing strange clothes, unwilling to do housework, being entangled with people and things, being bedridden all day, being nosy, throwing or smashing things for no reason, collecting sundries and stolen things, etc.

3. Abnormal speech. The ways and means of speaking have become abnormal, such as talking to oneself, making a fuss for no reason, swearing at people who don't actually exist, and people who love to talk have become unwilling or unwilling to talk, and their words are abstruse or illogical, or their foreword is incoherent. They like to ask absurd questions such as "Why can't their ears eat" and say that someone is talking about themselves behind their back.

2. What is mental illness?

Mental illness refers to a serious psychological disorder, and patients' psychological activities such as cognition, emotion, will, action and behavior may appear persistent and obvious abnormalities; Unable to study, work and live normally; Action is difficult to be understood by ordinary people; Under the control of morbid psychology, people commit suicide or attack or hurt others.

3. Common types of mental illness

1, thinking is broken. The patient has no center when thinking. 1 There is no connection between the thought and the second thought. When speaking, the preface does not match the latter, and it is upside down, with no ending and lack of coherence. Doctors can't communicate with patients with broken hearts at all, and they can't conduct medical examinations.

2. Emotional disorder. Alienation, indifference and even hostility to relatives. Indifferent and irritable about everything. Patients with obvious emotional disorders completely lose their self-management ability, which seriously affects their diet, sleep and rest, and causes serious harm to their own health.

3, hallucinations and delusions. Most hallucinations are auditory hallucinations. The patient heard someone talking to her in the air or in the room, or heard some people talking about her. Patients' behaviors are often influenced by hallucinations, and even obey the "instructions" of hallucinations to make some dangerous actions.

4. Treatment of mental illness

1. Drug therapy is the most commonly used and effective treatment for mental illness at present. With the increasing variety of antipsychotics, most mental diseases are treated with chemical drugs. The new generation of antipsychotic drugs has better curative effect and fewer adverse reactions, and gradually replaces the original drugs.

2. Electroconvulsive therapy can quickly achieve the therapeutic goal for some serious mental diseases, especially patients with severe mania or suicidal tendency, and the therapeutic effect is very good. At present, it is only used as adjuvant therapy.

3. Psychotherapy is not the main treatment method for patients with severe mental illness, but generally used as an auxiliary treatment method after drug therapy improves their mental condition. Psychotherapy can play a certain therapeutic role in patients with mild mental illness, such as neurosis, psychosomatic diseases, personality disorders and other diseases.

5. Causes of mental illness

1, mental stimulation: people's psychology is closely related to social factors. If the individual does not adapt to the social environment, it will produce mental stimulation, which will lead to brain dysfunction and mental disorders. Whether it is a pleasant benign stimulus or a painful malignant stimulus, exceeding a certain limit will have an impact on people's psychology.

2. Genetic factors: In mental illness, such as schizophrenia and affective disorder, the prevalence of mental illness in the family is significantly higher than that in the general population, and the closer the blood relationship, the higher the incidence rate. In addition, the inheritance of mental retardation and epileptic mental disorder also accounts for a considerable proportion of pathogenic factors.

3. Ego: People with poor psychological quality and low tolerance to mental stimulation are prone to get sick under the same environment and mental stimulation. Usually, people who are introverted, narrow-minded and self-respecting, people who don't associate with others, and people who are withdrawn and lazy are prone to psychological obstacles after encountering setbacks.

4. Socio-psychological factors: Most children get sick under the influence of mental stimulation, such as parents scolding or being frightened, being criticized by teachers, quarreling with classmates, etc. Most of these children are introverted, withdrawn, taciturn, timid and unsociable. This is also the main cause of mental illness.

6. Family members' attitude towards patients

1, to treat mental patients correctly, we must have a correct understanding of them. Mental illness, like other diseases, is also a disease, but the cause of mental illness is not as clear as other diseases. Abnormal manifestations of mental illness, such as abnormal behavior, mood and thinking, are all caused by diseases, not "ghosts" or ideological problems. Patients also have diseases and should be treated by patients, but the general mental patients do not think they are sick, do not take the initiative to seek medical treatment, or refuse to seek medical treatment, which requires family members to pay more attention and care to mental patients.

2. We should understand and respect the abnormal cognition, emotion, will and behavior of mental patients, because mental illness is the functional obstacle of brain activity. Therefore, patients should not only see their pathological psychological activities, but also see their normal psychological activities. Many words and deeds, demands and ideas of patients are reasonable. We should try our best to meet or solve the patient's requirements. If you can't satisfy it due to objective reasons, you should explain it patiently, not simply, let alone cynicism. It is very important to show more consideration, respect and care for patients whose condition has improved or who are in recovery. Society and family should give patients normal working, studying and living conditions and try to keep them in a good emotional state, which is very important to consolidate the curative effect and stabilize their illness.

3, should be treated with a scientific attitude, and must not ask God to worship Buddha. Let a witch doctor tell fortune, invite a "fairy", drink a cup of "fairy water", or spend a lot of money to buy fake drugs, which not only makes patients suffer mental and physical torture, but also damages their money. To make matters worse, it delayed their illness and increased the difficulty of curing the disease. We should treat it with a scientific attitude. If you ask a specialist for treatment, you can control your illness as soon as possible.

4. Take good care of your family. Most patients with mental illness spend their rehabilitation life at home, so family nursing of mental illness has become the primary task to consolidate the therapeutic effect, prevent the recurrence of the disease and promote the rehabilitation of the disease. If there is no good family environment, patients can't get the understanding and help of their families, but they are often ridiculed or discriminated against by their families, and their illness is easy to recur. Therefore, family members should take good care of patients' daily life and personal hygiene, make patients' life regular, encourage patients to take part in some labor and entertainment activities within their power, supervise drug use, and create a good family environment for patients. We should fully understand all kinds of morbid words and deeds and manifestations of mental patients. If there are contradictions in the family, we should try our best to improve, enhance emotional communication, and strive to enhance the stability of the family, so that patients can feel the warmth and happiness of the family, which will promote the illness.