Mental illness is generally divided into two categories: mild and severe.
Mild refers to the patient's self-awareness of his mental abnormality.
You can also control your mental activities and maintain your ability to adapt to the environment, such as neurosis.
The so-called severity means that patients have no self-knowledge of their mental disorders, can't control their mental activities, and lose the ability to adapt to the environment. It is also called mental illness, such as schizophrenia and manic depression.
This distinction between severity and severity is also relative, and some severe mental diseases often show mild manifestations in the early stage.
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For a long time, many stars or celebrities have been trapped in depression and even committed suicide, both at home and abroad. The word depression stimulates people's nerves again and again.
In fact, depression is a common mental illness, and the suicide probability of depression is relatively high.
Because many celebrities suffer from depression, now depression is generally accepted by everyone, and people no longer feel that depression is an insult.
Sometimes people express their discomfort with depression.
However, Zhang Jinfang said that the "hat" of depression should not be casually buckled, so how do you judge whether you really have depression?
Zhang Jinfang further explained: "Depression is mainly caused by depression, and I can't get up no matter what I do. I don't want to do anything I usually like, which is obviously manifested in poor sleep. If this state lasts for 3 months, it is very likely that I have depression. If it lasts for half a year, it will be more serious. I suggest going to the hospital for treatment. "
Cognitive behavioral therapy is effective in treating depression.
If the severity of depression is serious, drug treatment must be carried out. Depression is a mental illness, but some people are not diagnosed with depression and are in a depressed state. Some characteristics of depression are already obvious. These people usually have these characteristics:
Psychologists say that psychological problems are not equal to mental diseases, so we should pay attention to syndrome differentiation and symptomatic treatment.
People will inevitably have psychological problems due to various trivial matters in daily life, and the psychological problems arising at this time are called "general psychological problems".
"General psychological problems" will gradually develop into "serious psychological problems" if they are not solved in time.
If the psychological problem is not solved at this time, it will turn into a neurotic psychological problem, and if it is not treated in time, it will eventually lead to mental illness.
But not all mental diseases are evolved from psychological problems.
Mental illness generally has a slow development process. The early stage is only a psychological problem, and psychological obstacles are the easiest to correct.
Early detection, early formal system treatment, most patients can recover, so once the family members are found to have mental symptoms, they should go to a regular hospital for treatment.
In the normal psychological population, it can be divided into mental health state and mental unhealthy state.
In our real life, people in the black area are mentally ill and need hospitalization.
Before the black zone, there were some people in the gray zone. They have not reached psychological abnormality, but their psychological state is extremely poor and their negative emotions are great. These people are mentally normal, but they are already in an unhealthy state.
Just like the "garbage man" joked by netizens.
The word "garbage man" has long been popular on WeChat, which is a nickname given by netizens to a group of people with great negative emotions in society.
This kind of people love to look for reasons from the outside world and complain pessimistically when they encounter problems in their lives. Their hearts are full of frustration and anger, disappointment and dissatisfaction with society, and negative "garbage".
With the accumulation of negative emotions of "garbage people", there will be problems in interpersonal relationship and psychological state over time.
Zhang Jinfang analyzed that the generation of garbage people is inseparable from social pressure.
During the period of social transformation in China, the accelerated pace of life aggravated people's psychological pressure, and the confusion of values made them at a loss, so some people's values were distorted.
Personal values conflict with social values, and I don't know what to advocate.
The ancients used a person's moral character as the evaluation standard. "A person should rely on faith to establish his position in the world.". Honesty should be the basic principle of being a man. In ancient times, even if you were powerful, rich and in a high position, you would be despised by the world if your moral character was corrupted.
Nowadays, many people in society put money first, and gentlemen love money, but many people don't take it well and are not gentlemen.
Anything can be exchanged for money.
People think that only by acquiring wealth can they occupy all social resources, get more people's recognition and reflect their own values, while some people's values are not reflected more, so it is easy to become "garbage people".
"In our life, some people are psychologically in a gray area. The biggest job that psychological counseling can do is to help these people restore a good psychological state as soon as possible, so as not to let them enter the black area and become mental patients. "
Zhang Jinfang pointed out that these people often have such problems:
First, there are some problems in their interpersonal relationship, such as parent-child relationship, husband-wife relationship, superior-subordinate relationship, etc., and their psychology is in a sub-health state, but they do not meet the diagnostic criteria of mental illness;
Second, the mood is in a state of anxiety and tension for a long time.
Their sky is gray and there are few colorful times;
Third, I don't know who I am, I have no sense of self-identity, I don't know myself, and I am uncoordinated.
For example, if someone says they are fat today and thin tomorrow, they will feel thin and have no stable evaluation of themselves.
Zhang Jinfang reminded that if you feel that you are in an unhealthy state among normal people, you need psychological adjustment and self-awareness.
Mother's mental health will have a far-reaching impact on children's mental health.
Therefore, when a mother finds that her mental state is not good, she must adjust or do mental counseling in time so that her mental health can love her children wholeheartedly.
Zhang Jinfang pointed out:
"A child gets enough care from his mother at the age of 0- 1, and then he will learn to love others, feel that he is not lacking in love, and even feel that he is full of love all his life."
"On the other hand, if you don't get enough love, you are emotionally neglected, or even emotionally or physically abused, then the child's life will be miserable and it is easy to suffer from mental illness, such as schizophrenia."
According to the research, if there is a problem in the relationship between mother and baby at the early age of 0- 1 year, children are prone to serious mental illness.
Psychology has done experiments, and children's childhood memories are emotional memories.
If a mother can keep a good mood even if she doesn't say anything, even if a dumb mother smiles at her child and plays with him, the child will be very healthy.
Psychology has done such an experiment:
Let a mother perform depression in front of her children. Three days later, her child was as depressed as her mother.
This experiment shows that children's emotional memory is very profound.
Therefore, the mother-infant relationship is very important, and a good mother-infant relationship lays the foundation for the baby's mental health.
Bad mother-infant relationship is the premise and condition for many psychological problems of infants later.
A good mother is a safe island in the baby's heart.
The happy experience of love in infancy is an important foundation for a person's mental health development, and it is also an inexhaustible mental health resource for a person's future life. Therefore, every mother is called upon to love her children 100%.
Zhang Jinfang said that there is a certain relationship between mental illness and heredity. When you find someone in your family suffering from mental illness, you should pay close attention to your mental health.
"Instead of spending a lot of time trading your body for money, spend more time paying attention to your mental health and doing something that makes you happy."
Zhang Jinfang warned.
When it comes to the relationship between mental illness and heredity, Zhang Jinfang used an image metaphor to explain:
Everyone is like a gun, and heredity is like a bullet in a gun. Some people have bullets, others have no bullets.
When we think that we may be people with bullets and have a genetic tendency, we try to reduce the induced events in our lives.
When the great pressure in life sweeps through, we should develop more social support.
If we face a thing and find that there are many people who support it, it is not easy to be at a loss.
It can be said that the external stress event is equivalent to a trigger, and the bullet inside is hereditary. If there are no bullets, of course, it is best. If you have bullets, try not to pull the trigger.
So be prepared. In real life, we should develop a better social support system. A good social support system is the best way to cope with stress.
So I also suggest that if you find yourself often troubled by inexplicable emotions and often have a bad relationship with people around you, you'd better find a professional consultant to help you understand your childhood experience.
A good life begins with paying attention to mental health. Zhang Jinfang gave you some advice about mental health:
First of all, we should improve our health awareness and disease prevention awareness. If you feel that you are in an unhealthy psychological state, you should adjust yourself or seek the help of a psychologist.
Secondly, we should establish correct values.
When you are alive, think more about how much you have paid for others, and don't care how much you have got.
Read more books on positive psychology, and you will find that the more people pay, the higher their happiness.
Many people abroad will volunteer when they are in a bad mood. Plunder can reflect value, and giving can also reflect value.
But many people are plundering and demanding, so think more about what we can do for the people around us;
Finally, I suggest you increase some healthy activities or cultivate a wide range of hobbies, such as outdoor sports, square dance, playing Tai Ji Chuan, badminton and so on.
Physical exercise can help people relieve psychological stress.
Interviewed expert: Zhang Jinfang
Clinical Psychological Counselor of Shanxi Mental Health Center Master of Psychology National Second-level Psychological Counselor
Interview/article: Qin Gaimei (please indicate the author and source for reprint)