How to be kind to the mentally ill near you

We often advocate equality of all people, advocate social morality, but have we ever noticed, an inadvertent words and deeds, has unintentionally destroyed the spirit of this morality, this destruction, I often call it “the gentle killer”. For example, in our daily life, we often say when we are joking or angry, “you are crazy,” “you are out of the mental hospital,” “the door of the mental hospital is not closed, how to put you out! “You’re out of the mental hospital,” “You’re out of the mental hospital,” “How did you get out of the mental hospital? If you are a mental patient and you are a bystander, how would you feel when you listen to this kind of joke? Therefore, your offhand remark is an insult or even a personal attack to the person suffering from this disease. And it does far more harm than the joke itself. The circulation of these words inadvertently brings great harm to people with mental illness, and puts a dark veil over their dignity. I hope that when you finish reading this article, you will treat the mentally ill people around you kindly in the future and give them room to breathe. In fact, society’s misunderstanding of mental patients is understandable. This is because mental patients are often disturbed members of society when they are ill, dressed in rags, stripped of their clothes and pants, wandering around, disrupting social order, even hating others, hurting people and destroying things, and so on, and so people cannot help but feel little affection for these people. Moreover, once they know that there is a mental patient in anyone’s family, they are unwilling to socialize with him. This will lead to the fact that once they have mental illness, they will consider it a shameful thing, not daring to face up to the illness, and being ashamed to seek medical treatment or to seek superstitious solutions to the problem. In fact, this approach is often not desirable, not to mention the delay in treatment, and with the gradual aggravation of the condition, the best opportunity for treatment is missed. In fact, with the development of modern medicine, mental illness has become a preventable, curable disease, and if timely medical treatment, the general prognosis is relatively good, can adapt to the reality of life, can participate in normal work, study, life, socialization, marriage, childbirth and so on. Therefore, we have mental illness is not terrible, as long as we seek professional psychiatrist help in time, you can be like a normal person life. What is scary is that you are ashamed to seek medical treatment and can’t insist on taking medication, which leads to the gradual aggravation of your condition and the recurrence of your condition, but instead of harming your own life. Mental patients are not as scary as we think, their “incomprehensible” behavior is understandable, usually under the domination of hallucinations and delusions (only when they think it’s all true, they will produce the corresponding behavior), when their hallucinations and delusions are under control, they will be able to control their behavior. When their hallucinations and delusions are under control, their “incomprehensible” behavior disappears, and they even awaken to their past behavior and recognize it correctly. However, when their self-knowledge (the ability to recognize their condition) is restored, a large number of them will more or less develop an inferiority complex. Such as: afraid of others look down on them, and do not dare to socialize; afraid of losing their jobs after the unit knows, no job for fear of not finding a job because of the disease; when in love, afraid of the other side know and dislike themselves and so on. These fears of patients discharged from the hospital, is undoubtedly a huge mental pressure, which has become a disease afraid to seek medical treatment for another social reason. Some patients who cannot bear such pressure after being discharged from hospitals are again depressed by their illnesses and develop extreme behaviors, committing suicide, self-harm, and so on. Here, I would like to say a few words of justice for the mental patients, please do not make similar jokes, please treat the discharged mental patients around you, they are the same as other patients discharged from hospitals with physical illnesses, they should receive more care from the community, be recognized by the community, please give them a free space to live. At the same time, due to the general economic difficulties of the families of the mentally ill, we also ask our government departments at all levels, enterprises and institutions at all levels, charitable organizations at all levels, and the media at all levels to do a good job of correctly guiding public opinion, and to provide them with a fair space to live, they do not need to give alms to the poor, but they are more in need of human dignity.