First of all, the family should have a correct understanding of mental illness, people have all kinds of prejudice against mental illness, in fact, mental illness, like other medical and surgical diseases, is just a disease, this patient in a sick state shows abnormal thinking, emotions, behavior, rather than any thought problem. The difference between mental illness and other physical illnesses is that patients are unaware of their illnesses and do not realize that they are sick, so they do not take the initiative to seek medical attention and refuse treatment, which requires family members to take extra care and care for the mentally ill, respect their personality, and give them emotional and psychological support. The family has a psychiatric patient, should be early to the psychiatric treatment, some are young, hospitalized for fear that others know, will affect the patient’s future life, such as love, employment, and so on, and delayed to the psychiatric consultation, but in the end the paper can not cover the fire, this is actually a cover-up practice. Some believe that psychiatric patients are possessed, especially in rural families, burning incense and praying to gods and goddesses, which results in a lot of work and money, missing the best time for treatment. Therefore, doctors recommend that those who have the financial conditions to be hospitalized in a timely manner, if there are no conditions for hospitalization of patients should pay attention to the following points. 1, patients at home treatment should pay attention to the room set simple, neat, do not have knives, ropes, pesticides and other dangerous goods. Especially depressed patients should maintain a high degree of vigilance to avoid accidents. Some patients under the domination of psychiatric symptoms can appear to hurt people, destroy things and other behaviors, guardians should pay attention to self-protection. 2, to develop a good rhythm of life, should develop a work and rest time, regular rest, regular wake up. After the disease is stabilized, it is also appropriate to increase cultural and sports activities to motivate the patient. Patients who are lonely and lazy should be urged to participate in simple labor and avoid being bedridden all day. Since psychiatric patients do not admit that they are sick, most of them are reluctant to take medication and often hide it, so they must be urged to take medication to prevent losing it, hiding it and adding or subtracting it at will. In addition, the drugs cannot be kept by the patients themselves to avoid overdose or poisoning incidents. Some family members believe that the patient has performed normally, so they do not supervise the patient’s medication as prescribed by the doctor to consolidate the effect, which leads to relapse of the disease. In some cases, the family members think that the medication is not appropriate or the disease is aggravated and stop the medication because of the side effects such as fidgeting, blurred vision, constipation, tremor, etc., after the patient takes the medication, resulting in repeated fluctuations of the patient’s condition. Therefore, it is especially important to emphasize the rational use of medication and increase the patient’s compliance with medication.