People often confuse mental illness with ideological problems, and many mental illnesses are treated as ideological and cognitive problems, which will inevitably backfire. So what is psychology? Psychology refers to people's inner activities such as thoughts and feelings. If you are a person, you will have mental illness, but China people are often reluctant to admit that you have mental illness, because in our concept, we often equate "mental illness" with "personality". When we find someone with mental illness, we will call their family members "mental illness". In America, there are always two people around a successful person, one is a lawyer and the other is a psychologist. This shows that Americans attach great importance to psychological problems.
Since mental illness is called a disease, it has the general characteristics of physical illness, namely universality, infectivity, self-healing and repetition.
1, Universality: This year (1997), China Youth Daily made a survey on mental health in June, and admitted that their recent mental state was quite high, such as anxiety, headache, insomnia, hostility, suspicion, jealousy, inferiority, irritability and pessimism. The modern society we face is a high-speed and fast-paced modern society, full of competition and challenges. Today, with the increasing social pressure and fierce competition, people's mental illness will inevitably become more and more serious.
2. infectivity: I told outstanding students at the meeting that I am very busy and tired now, and sometimes some students complain about the large amount of homework and exams. But excellent students should not do this. Why? Because this kind of emotion is contagious, it will greatly affect students' enthusiasm for learning. In an article in February, 1997, China Youth Daily reported that a director in his fifties committed suicide. The reason, according to expert analysis, is that people who want to commit suicide on the phone for a long time often hear the negative side of life (and many of these are facts), which has a negative psychological impact on him. In addition, despite his hard work, some people finally came to a dead end, which made him feel discouraged and disappointed. This negative psychological influence has shrouded him for a long time, making him suffer from serious mental illness. In some other places, there are also suicides among psychological researchers, which is noteworthy. Teachers who accompany their children all their lives, because of the long-term psychological influence of their children's liveliness, many people are still childlike and full of vigor, although they reach middle age and old age.
3. Curability: Mental illness can be divided into three levels according to the degree: the lightest is psychological disorder and psychological fragility; Severe cases will develop into mental neurosis, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobia, depression, neurasthenia and so on. What's more serious is mental disorder.
Since mental illness is also a disease, it can certainly be cured. Mental health is a kind of ability, and like other abilities, it can be cultivated under the guidance of theory. The age group with high incidence of this disease has a characteristic, that is, prismatic distribution. Children (early childhood) can be said to have few psychological diseases because there is no great frustration and pressure. Data show that 40%-50% of young students have psychological problems.
I remember a song in the foreign TV series "Handsome Boy" sang like this: "Little boy, he seldom worries, and his eyes are fixed on four star lights; Little boy, little trouble, I hope it will be so good forever. As he grows older, he has more and more troubles. " This is because children at this stage are young, have little social experience, and often can't adjust their psychology well, so that they bear a heavy psychological burden. At this stage, there are many topics in students' weekly diary, such as excessive study pressure, conflicts with parents and classmates.
When I go to college, although I have cultural knowledge, I still lack social experience and my psychological problems are more serious. There is a good saying: "the richer the spiritual world, the sadder the real life;" The nobler the spiritual world, the more unfortunate it is in real life! " In recent years, college students' suicides caused by mental illness have occurred from time to time, which has also attracted people's attention.
In old age, because they are experienced and well-informed, ordinary life setbacks are hard to knock them down, and they can make psychological adjustments.
Therefore, people often say: the beauty of children lies in innocence, the beauty of youth lies in vigor, and the beauty of old age lies in freedom.
Although with the increase of age and the change of external environment, most patients with mental illness can heal themselves, mental health education is still imperative for the healthy growth of teenagers.
4. Cycle: the tide rises and falls, winter goes to spring, flowers bloom and fall, the sun and the moon change, and everything is in a cycle of change. People's emotions are no exception, with ups and downs, good and bad. As long as people are in contact with the outside world, there will always be all kinds of difficulties. When a psychological problem is solved, new problems will arise. A mental illness is cured, but once the right conditions are met, it will recur.
So, what are the psychological problems faced by middle school students at present?
1. Stress: How to treat stress? If you have a good bow, if you pull it too tightly, the string will break; It's too loose to shoot arrows. So the necessary pressure should still be there. Pessimists often regard stress as a mountain, which they carry all day and are finally crushed by it. For confident people, pressure is the source of stimulating creativity, the auxiliary wing of career success and the cause of motivation. Therefore, without pressure, there is no motivation.
It has been scientifically proved that graphite can be turned into diamond by artificially changing the arrangement of atoms at 5- 10 atmospheric pressure and 1200-2000℃. It can be seen that stress can work miracles. Balzac, a French writer, used to do business, but he ended up in debt. Creditors came to his door one after another, and he had to work day and night to pay off his debts, and wrote dozens of novels in a few years. At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's industry had just started. Wang Jinxi, an iron man who worked in the anniversary oil field, saw our car running around with airbags on his back because of the lack of gasoline, and deeply felt the heavy burden as an oil worker. Under the pressure of "China is poor in oil" asserted by foreign experts, China's oil industry has finally developed through the efforts of several generations of oil workers. It can be seen that pressure is precisely the catalyst for successful people to succeed.
Of course, pulling different bows with the same force, some bows can shoot arrows far away, and some are broken. It seems that the endurance of the bow is also very important. Therefore, in the face of increasing social pressure, it is most important to adjust your mentality and face the pressure with a healthy and optimistic attitude towards life.
A middle school student wrote in his diary: "The pressure of society will only increase. But for my goal, I have to face the reality. Always cheer yourself up, so I have confidence and motivation. I will try to maintain a good attitude, so that I can easily devote myself to my study and not bow to pressure. "
2. Frustration and misfortune: Frustration and misfortune are the best universities for a growing middle school student. If a person has never tasted hunger and thirst, he will never enjoy the sweetness of food and water; If he had not experienced difficulties and setbacks, he would not have tasted the joy of success. Therefore, "difficulties are an abyss for the weak, but wealth for the strong." (Balzac) In setbacks, you can inspire a strong fighting spirit. It is precisely because of this that the famous saying "adversity makes talents" came into being.
In recent years, frustration education has attracted more and more attention in the topic of cultivating cross-century talents. Let students get rid of their habit of pampering themselves in a hard environment, sharpen their strong will, learn the confidence and skills of "chasing light in the dark", cultivate their resilience, toughness and tolerance for setbacks, so as to learn to get happiness from others or the outside world and stimulate an instinct to find happiness from the deep heart. In this way, we can remain calm and optimistic in the face of any difficulties and setbacks, which is priceless in life.
Therefore, real gold is not afraid of fire, and the strong are tempered in adversity. "Since ancient times, great people have suffered a lot, and there has never been a great person." Miracles are mostly caused by bad luck.