With the enhancement of health awareness, mental health issues are getting more and more attention, but due to the influence of traditional concepts, psychological counseling as the protection of public mental health is still subject to a variety of misunderstandings and rumors of harm. Often encountered many outpatient visitors are entangled for several years before finally deciding to come to the hospital psychosomatic medicine department, asked about the reasons, most of them are worried that if colleagues, leaders or family members know that they are misunderstood as their own mental illness, affecting the position promotion, or even forced to give up the opportunity to study and work, resulting in the original can be adjusted or cured symptoms dragged to the deterioration of the eventual serious impact on the life and work before coming to the demand for professional help. Professional help. Are people who seek psychological counseling people with mental illness? The vast majority of people who seek counseling are normal people who are mentally healthy. It’s just that a psychologically healthy person may occasionally have mood swings, and they encounter problems in their lives that they cannot solve, such as career, social interaction, marriage, parenting, etc. When they encounter these problems, some people will seek professional counseling. When encountering these problems, some will seek professional help. Only a small number of patients suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, depression, phobias and other psychological disorders need to seek professional psychiatrists for medication and psychological counseling integrated diagnosis and treatment, and more serious mental illnesses often need to go to a psychiatric hospital for treatment. Those with serious mental illnesses often do not think they have a disease and will not take the initiative to seek psychological counseling or medication, because they are already missing the ability of normal people to identify diseases and self-control. It can be seen that those who seek psychological counseling are people with discernment and self-control. Therefore, it is important not to add to the psychological pressure by caring about other people’s opinions, resulting in delaying the normal treatment process. It is important to realize that psychological disorders are the same as physical illnesses, and when you are sick, you should seek professional medical help to get out of the unhealthy state as soon as possible, and maximize the improvement of your daily work and quality of life. Are mental illnesses incurable? When it comes to mental illness, many people would think that it cannot be cured like colds, fever and other types of physical illnesses. Because of the complexity and variety of mental illnesses, it is true that not all mental illnesses can be completely cured, schizophrenia being one example. However, most mental illnesses can be cured, such as insomnia and social phobia. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) claims that 70-90% of patients experience symptomatic relief through a combination of psychotherapy and medication, and that a complete cure for multiple mental illnesses is possible with the effort of a certain course of treatment. Therefore, patients who have discovered their mental illnesses and seek help should have full confidence that your mental illnesses can be alleviated or even cured through the joint efforts of professional doctors and themselves, and it is of great significance for patients to receive psychological guidance or medication from professional doctors to help them control and cure their conditions. Can psychotherapy solve all problems at once? Mental illness cannot be solved in one go by prescribing some medication or having a surgery like physical illness. Psychotherapy is a long process, and you cannot expect a single counseling session to solve the problem. The causes of mental illnesses are often long-term accumulations that lead to gradual changes in the psyche, and ultimately lead to the outbreak of mental illnesses, such as long-standing erroneous mental concepts, long-established bad habits, or unfortunate childhood encounters. A short course of treatment requires 8 to 10 sessions of 30 to 45 minutes each. Therefore, a certain amount of patience is necessary for the treatment of mental illness. If you want to solve the psychological problem as soon as possible, you need the active cooperation of the helpers and a strong willingness to treat, otherwise it will delay the process of psychotherapy. At the same time, the earlier the discovery, the earlier the acceptance of treatment are conducive to the control of mental illness and treatment results, otherwise it will not only increase the risk of patients and increase the difficulty of treatment. Therefore, the patient and his family should help him to find out the problem as early as possible, and actively seek the help of psychological counselors and psychologists, and actively cooperate with the professional doctor’s treatment, in order to control and treat the discovered psychological hidden danger as early as possible, to ensure mental health and guarantee the quality of life.