Perhaps there are too many people suffering from mental illness and painful, do not know what to do, perhaps too many families of patients with mental illness lack of understanding of mental illness, and led to the patient on the road to despair, perhaps 。。。。。 Now many people’s views are that mental illness is not to think, and said that taking medicine is useless, medicine will affect the health of the body to eat too much, do not think about anything. Perhaps it is because of such a viewpoint, so many people are in the long-term pain of life and death. I clearly remember that day, it was drizzling rain, the hospital informed me to go to a hospital consultation, I quickly rushed to the consultation hospital to the patient’s bed, printed into the eyes of a pale helpless old man, in that dull gaze seems to no longer have the desire to live, a side of the children in the corners of the eyes with tears, told me that he was bent on death, just resuscitated now refused to eat, nor talk, they are anxious, I understand that the old man I understood that the old man must have too much helplessness and despair in his heart. At that moment, my heart aches, I can’t seem to ask the old man questions, just subconsciously the old man’s hand gently in my hands, gazing at him, I slowly found that the old man’s dull gaze became particularly soft, unconsciously tears have filled his eyes, he began to tell the painful experience that has tormented him for too long, the old man said that after retirement suddenly feel nothing to do, at first sometimes feel more He said that after his retirement, he suddenly felt nothing to do, sometimes he felt more irritable, and then he gradually felt bad appetite, when the gastroscopy did not happen, but his stomach became more and more uncomfortable, and he could not eat, and he lost weight, and his children were usually very busy, and they seldom came home, and they started to care about themselves, and they suffered a lot, and they took me to Shanghai and Nanjing for checkups, but they did not find any problems. Gradually, I felt that my whole body had no energy, and my body often hurt, and I kept having to urinate, sweating a lot, and my head was dizzy, and I often woke up with pain at night because of the pain in my body, and for more than ten years, I looked everywhere, but no disease was found, and I took a lot of medicine, but the uncomfortable feeling in my body never improved. After that, my children began to blame me, saying that I was sick in my mind, caused by random thoughts, but in fact there was no disease. Although I also took me to a psychiatrist, the doctor said I was anxious, gave me some medicine to eat and feel better, but my children firmly opposed to my medication, said I have checked everything, what disease is not, is the disease of thought, and said what is the use of medicine, but also affect the body. Don’t think about anything. Such words over and over again has deeply stabbed my heart, am I not sick pretending to be sick? They there know how hard I have to suffer, I think nonsense, my body pain simply can not control. Maybe I have treated too many patients with mental illness, maybe I have heard too many old people and children’s helpless and hopeless voices, maybe I have seen too many people in tears, my heart really hurts, the pain is not their inability to cure, the pain is the relatives of these patients they simply do not understand what is not mental illness. In fact, mental illness is the same as hypertension, diabetes, etc. is the disease, they not only need medication, but also need to combine psychotherapy, such as depression, anxiety medication and psychotherapy are necessary. In particular, we should note that the general elderly or less educated people tend to be less receptive to psychotherapy, so medication becomes more important, like this elderly is anxiety is not effectively treated in the case of somatic discomfort secondary to depression, resulting in suicide. Finally, I would like to appeal to these family members, first of all, you should understand that patients with mental illness are very painful inside, you as their closest relatives should always support him and encourage him to bravely overcome the disease, rather than claiming that he is not sick and does not need medication, so they feel that you do not understand how much pain he has inside and how uncomfortable the body is. Because the physical discomfort will not be quickly improved by psychotherapy, especially in the elderly.