How to deal with family members with mental illness?

(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. Ordinary mental patients do not think that they are sick, do not take the initiative to seek medical treatment, or refuse 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) Treat it with a scientific attitude, and never 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 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.