Human perception, thought, emotion, and behavior are called mental activity in psychology and psychiatric activity in psychiatry. Therefore, psychology and psychosis are the same thing. However, psychology mainly studies mental activities from the perspectives of society and human personality characteristics, while psychiatry mainly studies mental activities from the perspective of biology, and nowadays, social and psychological factors are increasingly added. For ordinary psychological problems, such as problems encountered in daily life, work, marriage, love and family, which cause worries and have little impact on life and work, and the desire to solve them by oneself, it is better to see a psychiatrist. For obvious mental abnormalities, such as unusual ideas, strange behavior, serious impact on daily life, work, but they do not consider it a problem, no desire to seek help. It is better to see a psychiatrist. Most of these problems are schizophrenia, depression, mania, severe neurosis, etc., which are mainly treated by medication, and the effect of pure psychotherapy is poor. Some people think that seeing a psychiatrist will aggravate the patient’s condition, but this is actually a misconception. The patient’s inability to receive timely treatment is what aggravates the condition, and the impact of the environment on the patient is secondary at this point. When the distinction is not clear, it is better to see a psychiatrist first to rule out psychiatric disorders, such as treating serious illness as a psychological problem will delay treatment. Some family members are reluctant to take the patient to a psychiatrist and only seek consultation and treatment from a general practitioner, so that the condition will not be cured and will become chronic, making it artificially difficult to treat. Some patients’ families only believe in Chinese medicine, believing that Chinese medicine treats the root cause and Western medicine treats the symptoms, causing the condition to remain untreated or to recur, making it more difficult to treat.