How to focus on adolescent mental health

  From time to time, the psychiatric wards of the Hospital of Southeast University are occupied by adolescent patients, including middle school and high school students, who are overwhelmed by the pressure of life and schooling. Yuan Yonggui, director of psychiatry and a special professor at Southeast University, said that these children have strong personalities, some of them used to be academics but were depressed due to stress and eventually had no choice but to suspend their studies. Treatment.  The 17-year-old Liu was a sophomore in a key middle school in Nanjing and had been a dominant student in middle school, almost every exam was in the top three of the grade. After Liu entered the key high school with excellent grades, although he studied hard, but every exam could not rank as high as junior high school, gradually Liu felt more and more pressure to study, half a year ago he always felt headaches, memory loss, and inattentiveness in class. A month ago, a test made his grades drop, and Liu was completely bored with school so he took a break from school. He is often irritable at home and sometimes sullen and reluctant to go out. The family was very anxious, so they brought the child to the psychiatric clinic of CUHK Hospital, where he was finally diagnosed with depression and recommended to be hospitalized. When he first came to the hospital, Liu was particularly introverted and did not like to communicate. Nurse Mao Shengqin learned that Liu was very interested in crafts, so she played crafts with him whenever she had free time. Suspended children are mostly due to psychological problems learning pressure, lack of love into the first cause of heart disease The reporter was informed that there is a special group in the psycho-psychiatric ward, that is, adolescent patients, teenage children would have been a flowery age, energetic, have dreams, learning in the classroom, playing outdoors and classmates, while these patients can only be hospitalized in the ward. The main reason for this is the excessive pressure of study and the lack of parental care since childhood. Some families have disharmonious relationships, such as cold wars and arguments before the parents’ divorce, which can be insecure for sensitive children in adolescence. Some families are financially well-off, or “rich kids” as they are called, but their parents are busy and leave their children to the elderly, making them particularly vulnerable to intergenerational spoilage. There are also children who used to be very good at their studies and once they failed a test, they could not accept it. These children with psychological problems often manifest as headaches, stomach pains, after seeking medical help can only be reluctant to suspend school. Special treatment: “play” with children For these young students, the psychiatric staff of the hospital has developed a targeted treatment plan for them, one of the most important is to take them “play”, because “play “Play” is also an important treatment method in psychiatry, as it can improve the child’s mood, exercise hands-on skills, divert attention from the disease and promote sleep and appetite.  ”My daughter is the same age as them, and I was so heartbroken watching these children in the hospital that I wondered what else we could do for the children besides treating them every day.” Nurse Mao Shengqin said that it is most important to take the children to “play” together, to play crafts and draw with them, and to make the children happy. The most impressive thing is that an 18-year-old boy who was hospitalized with depression wrote and directed a stage play in the ward, in which the boy played the doctor and the doctors and nurses played the patients, and designed the consultation, hospitalization and treatment.  The head nurse and the children shopped together on the Internet for various materials needed for the craft. Every day, at the end of treatment, the children would get together and think about how to make beautiful flowers and fold beautiful paper, and their originally serious and depressed little faces were filled with the aura that originally belonged to them. Recently, Rubik’s cube, Go, chess, poker and backgammon have become the children’s amateur favorites again. In the ward, the children are busy with their nurse sisters, and their daily life is full of joy. The children are happy, their discomfort is relieved, and the parents of the children show their relaxed smiles. (The following pictures are handmade flowers that the nurses made together with the children)