In the psychiatric clinic, physicians often encounter individuals who exhibit significant psychiatric symptoms but fail to bring them to the attention of their families and colleagues. These people are much easier to cure if they receive early psychiatric treatment than if their symptoms develop in the future.
Early detection of psychiatric abnormalities can be observed in the following four aspects.
First, in terms of living habits
Patients often become lazy, do not get up on time, do not pay attention to personal hygiene, and sometimes do not follow the system.
Second, interpersonal aspects
The patient is cold to people, good at being alone, unwilling to participate in group activities, distant from friends and relatives, sullen and less talkative; or suddenly becomes overly enthusiastic, helpful, talkative, energetic, etc.
Third, in the emotional aspect
Mood changes of psychiatric patients are often unexplained, and even small stimuli can cause big reactions. For example, patients with manic episodes often show joyfulness and excessive enthusiasm all day long. Patients with depressive episodes, on the other hand, show depressed mood and depression. Some patients also have mood inversions, such as laughing when they hear unfortunate news, but sighing when they learn of happy events. Some patients are particularly sensitive to the words and actions of people around them and are overly paranoid. If he hears someone talking, he suspects that he is talking about himself, and even if someone coughs, he suspects that it is directed at him. The difference between this paranoia and the paranoia of normal people is that if the facts are confirmed and denied, the patient remains convinced and unconvincing. This pathological thinking is called delusion.
Fourth, in terms of sleep and memory
Even if the person stays up all night, he or she is still not tired the next day. However, careful observation may reveal that he has memory impairment, inattention, garbled speech, and increased movements.
V. Behavior and work
He is often absent-minded, makes frequent mistakes in work procrastination, is late and leaves early or does not go to work for the whole day. Students may show unexplained absenteeism from school, decreased academic performance, etc.
Sixth, physical discomfort
Headache or other parts of the pain, poor sleep, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, easy fatigue, etc. are common. If these complaints are not deeply analyzed, many patients are misdiagnosed as neurosis, and treatment is delayed.
There are also a few patients who are afraid of showing fear for no reason, such as fear of bacterial infection, afraid to go out on the street, afraid to shake hands with others. In severe cases, they are afraid that the whole family will be infected, so they do not allow children to go to school or relatives to work.
VII. Significant personality changes
Some shortcomings of the original personality such as withdrawn, suspicious, timid and shy, irritable, or sentimental, etc. are more serious and prominent. There are some other character which is originally a merit also become bad performance, such as the original lively and cheerful people suddenly become silent, the original courteous people become rude, the original words frank people become suspicious, etc.
Eight, there are short periods of time to say the wrong thing or do things that others think should not be done.
Because such things appear for a short time, and as soon as they appear, they are helped and corrected by people around them, and are often easy to ignore. If a person repeatedly says or does something wrong, he or she should be alert and seek timely and proactive treatment from a psychiatrist.
In short, when a person’s thoughts, behavior, will and emotions are different from before, and he or she has no specific knowledge, it may be an early sign of mental disorder. Family members should send the patient to the psychiatric hospital for examination as early as possible, early detection and treatment, the prognosis is good, and can reduce the possibility of relapse.