Should patients with mental disorders and psychological disorders be viewed correctly?

  When it comes to psychological disorders or mental disorders, many people have fear and may even discriminate against patients and family members who suffer from such disorders. Accordingly, they feel ashamed when they appear and conceal the truth from others. In fact, in modern society, psychological disorders have become a phenomenon that we cannot avoid. With the rapid development of society and economy, people are constantly experiencing various changes and feeling various pressures, and the prevalence of mental disorders has a tendency to increase. The following set of data comes from an authoritative survey conducted by a mental health institution in a large city in China in recent years: the prevalence of schizophrenia and other severe mental disorders is 11.7‰, and the prevalence of neurosis and other mild mental disorders is 35.2‰; the prevalence of primary and secondary school students, The detection rate of emotional, personality or behavioral problems among students in primary and secondary schools and colleges is more than 10%. In a survey of the population aged 60 and above, the prevalence of severe mental disorders was 21.48 per 1,000. Among them, the prevalence of mental disorders associated with cerebrovascular diseases was 8.79‰, schizophrenia was 7.67‰, mental disorders associated with brain degeneration (senile dementia) was 1.99‰, and the prevalence of neurosis was 41.25‰.  Since psychological disorders have such a high prevalence, why do people in general reject its existence? This probably touches the most sensitive and vulnerable part of our human nature, because people are most afraid of losing control of their surroundings and of losing control of their emotions and behaviors, and some patients with severe mental disorders show that they cannot effectively regulate their emotions and behaviors, which are incompatible with their surroundings or even disrupt the normal order. In fact, among the group of patients with mental disorders, those who seriously disturb others and the environment are only a very small minority, and more patients experience the pain of emotional disturbance alone without being understood by others.  If we call the onset of a psychological disorder “morbidity”, like the onset of a heart attack, what is the organ of morbidity? We know that the place and organ of mental activity is the brain. The brain, one of the most important organs of the human body, is the basis of human mental activity. Just like the body gets a fever when you have a cold, the brain also gets a “fever”. Only the brain fever is manifested through emotional and behavioral abnormalities, and the brain “fever” will not be like a tumor in the brain, can be found through medical examinations such as head CT, MRI and other parts of the lesion, psychological disorders may not find a very clear site, but neuropsychological research has confirmed that the brain Changes in the levels of certain neurotransmitters are closely related to depression, anxiety, or abnormalities in thinking and behavior. These are changes that occur at a more subtle level than the cellular level and are the mechanism by which various psychiatric drugs exert their therapeutic effects, but there are currently no means of detecting them, and they can only be determined by clinical presentation.  Most psychological disorders can now be effectively relieved and controlled by psychotherapy and medication. Just as fever can be reduced by taking antipyretic drugs, so can abnormalities in mood, behavior and even thinking by taking psychiatric drugs. Remember, the basis of mental activity is the brain, and when something goes wrong with the brain, something can certainly go wrong with mental activity. Like other organs in the body, the brain can also be sick, so why do we deny it the right to be sick and then not treat it aggressively when it is sick? Aren’t we being too hard on it?