Since most mental disorders are chronic mental disorders that begin in adolescence, the ultimate goal of their rehabilitation is to reach the level of mental development and health of normal peers. Only when this goal is achieved can patients maintain a normal state without the need for medication. Therefore, long-term adherence to the following points plays a crucial role in realizing this goal. I. Ensure a reasonable work and rest time. As the human brain evolved on the basis of the ape brain, the human brain retains many features of the ape brain, and its development must also conform to the laws of ape brain development. In the days of the ancient apes and hominids, they had to run around all day long in order to gather enough food to feed themselves. At nightfall, they had to “nest” – return to a safe enough cave or other location to rest, or they would surely become food for nocturnal beasts. Probably the most important post-nesting activity for an ancient ape or hominid is sleep: at night, when there is no recreation and no lighting, sleep seems to be the logical mainstay of life. As the food they collect during the day is not of high nutritional value, they are hungry after a night’s sleep, and when the first light of morning strikes their habitat, they will be back to the food-gathering activities. Such a weekly life also shaped the corresponding biological rhythms – regular sleep at night accompanied by the corresponding neuroendocrine activity, so that the brain gets normal development. Modern research has found that sleeping too late in the night has a detrimental effect on the cognitive function of adolescents, especially on memory. In our own clinical work, we have also found that with the same treatment measures, the same medication dosage and the same medication adherence, patients who have a regular routine in the inpatient setting, who go to bed early and get up early, and who work at sunrise and sleep at sunset, have better outcomes than outpatients who have an irregular routine. This suggests that maintaining an “early to bed, early to rise” sleep routine in patients with psychiatric disorders, especially adolescents, is beneficial to their condition and may be beneficial to the recovery of their brain function. Moreover, neurophysiological research also suggests that, contrary to the “sunrise and sunset” work and rest rules, the sleep cycle is accompanied by endocrine activity – “melatonin” secretion will be The secretion of melatonin, the endocrine activity that accompanies the sleep cycle, will also be abnormal and not reach the physiological level, which will affect the efficiency of mental activities, memory and emotional control on the following day. Therefore, we hope that our patients will, first of all, do the “sunrise and sunset” routine, ensure that they go to bed before 10:00 p.m. and get up before 8:00 p.m. If there are tasks that require overtime work, it would be best to go to bed early, and get up a few hours early the next day to complete such overtime work. At the same time, we also hope that patients do not drink beverages that may cause excitation of the central nervous system before going to bed, such as coffee, tea, etc., and do not engage in activities that may increase brain excitability, such as watching film and television programs with twists and turns in the plot or thrilling content and reading certain books and magazines that cause active associations. For patients who need to increase sleep (including drug-induced excessive sedation and sleepy patients), go to bed as early as possible, get up as early as possible, and after waking up, never “stay in bed”, but engage in some activities that can increase the excitability of activities such as physical exercise, etc., which is not only conducive to the cultivation of good work and rest habits, but also reduces the weight gain caused by excessive sleep. Take your medication on time and in accordance with the dosage. An important consensus in contemporary psychiatry is that the most important of all treatments for mental illness is medication. It can be compared this way: suffering from mental illness is like a person who has a fracture of the lower limbs, in the case of lower limb fracture, orthopedic surgeons will put a splint or plaster bandage on the patient and provide the patient with a crutch, which provides the patient with the possibility of walking, and when the fracture is healed, the patient will be able to remove the splint or plaster, throw away the crutches, and return to the normal function of walking. Mental illness patients taking therapeutic drugs is equivalent to the lower limb fracture patients walking need to have a splint, plaster bandage and crutches support, both to promote recovery, but also to provide the possibility of participating in normal social function activities. When the condition has recovered and social function is as good as that of a healthy person of the same age, the patient may discontinue the medication. It can be thought of in this way: the ultimate goal of taking medication is to stop taking it, to turn the patient into a normal person. The first step is to take the medication on time. Whether it is an inpatient or outpatient treatment patient, once a better, regular habit of taking medication is established it should be maintained and not easily changed. The better habit of taking medication is generally the time interval between the two doses is appropriate, such as taking medication twice a day, 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. to take a dose, the evening is also 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m. this time to take medication, so that the medication time is more balanced. If you need to take medication three times a day, it is more reasonable to take medication after breakfast, after lunch break and after dinner, for one thing, the time interval is more even, and for another, it is not easy to forget to take medication after meals. The benefits of regular medication are obvious: first, after a certain period of time, each patient will establish a time pharmacology law and time drug metabolism law in line with the individual drug habit, in order to ensure that there is a sufficiently stable concentration of drugs in the body fluids. This is the same as three meals a day regular eating, in the corresponding time, the corresponding organs of the human body will be ready for eating, such as digestive secretion, gastrointestinal peristalsis and so on. Similarly, when taking medication at the time when it should be taken, the relevant organs of the body will have corresponding functional adjustments to adapt to the therapeutic activity of taking medication. The second thing is to take the medication according to the dosage. Most psychiatric drugs have a so-called “therapeutic window” concentration, which is generally between the lowest and highest effective concentration. In the treatment of mental illness, the doctor will determine the corresponding therapeutic dose and the corresponding blood concentration according to the patient’s current condition (for example, the effective blood concentration of valproic acid between 75-125μg/ml, the effective blood concentration of lithium carbonate is blood lithium between 0.8-1.4mmol/L), the drugs that do not reach the corresponding blood concentration often can not achieve the corresponding therapeutic effect, and the drugs that are higher than this concentration often have side effects will not be able to achieve. Above this concentration, side effects tend to increase. Therefore, the doctor will choose the appropriate drug type and dosage according to the patient’s current treatment stage (e.g., acute treatment, consolidation treatment, and maintenance treatment). When the patient’s social functioning has fully returned to normal, the doctor will naturally consider reducing the dosage and eventually stopping the drug. It should be emphasized that no matter what kind of situation the patient is in, it is not possible to stop the drug abruptly, which often leads to a relapse of the disease in a very short time, or the emergence of the disease. In addition, if you need to take other medications due to a somatic disease, please consult your treating doctor whether there are any adverse interactions when combining the two types of medications. If your doctor is certain that there are adverse interactions, it is recommended that you consult a psychiatrist again to decide whether the medication can be temporarily discontinued. On the other hand, if the doctor is not sure whether there is such a risk, I recommend taking these medications together, especially for short-term treatment of somatic comorbidities such as “upper respiratory tract infections”, which do not pose a risk of harm to the body. Any discomfort that may be related to the medication should be seen as soon as possible rather than discontinued during the course of treatment. Because, for one thing, such discomfort is likely to be caused by other factors rather than the side effects of drugs, only the doctor has the experience to make the correct judgment; for another, even if such discomfort is the side effects of drugs, only the doctor can make a judgment and deal with the next step in the treatment of the guidance, and to avoid the risk of the recurrence of the disease caused by stopping medication on their own. It can be said that: do not take medication on time and in accordance with the amount of medication, to ensure that the efficacy of the treatment, but can not avoid side effects, is equal to “spend money, take drugs, not effective”. Of course, going to the hospital on time to find a doctor who is familiar with your condition is a prerequisite to ensure proper drug treatment. Third, actively participate in various social activities to promote the recovery of social functions. As mentioned earlier, patients with mental disorders need medication, and the ultimate goal of treatment is to eliminate the need for patients to take medication. Mental disorder patients, especially adolescents and even childhood patients often have an extremely similar characteristics, that is, the degree of psychological maturity compared with normal people of the same age has a large gap, in short, is not enough psychological maturity. The most direct consequence of insufficient psychological maturity is an unhealthy way of coping with mental stress, pressure or stimulation, and a lack of tolerance. The same mental stress or pressure may not constitute a great frustration reaction for healthy people of the same age, but for people with insufficient psychological maturity will lead to a greater frustration reaction, resulting in the proverbial “bull’s-eye” reaction, or the Zen concept of “can’t let go! The psychological reaction of the Zen concept of “not being able to let go” will eventually lead to the failure of psychological self-regulation, and then mental abnormality will occur. Therefore, if we want patients to have no relapse or as few relapses as possible, in addition to reasonable and appropriate medication, promoting the recovery of social functions and further development and maturation of psychological functions in the course of treatment, so as to reach the standard of healthy people of the same age, is the only way to eliminate the need to take medication in the end. We emphasize the importance of this restoration of functioning and return to society and the community, both in the acute inpatient treatment period and in the outpatient maintenance period. In addition, most patients with an adolescent onset of illness tend to have another deficit, namely, a relative lack of hobbies and interests. Under the current stage of China’s education system, many adolescents may be high achievers or outstanding students in school because their interests are focused on reading and exams in the educated model of test scores. In their good condition, parents and teachers often fail to detect the psychological and emotional problems that may arise in patients during this period. Once their condition deteriorates, especially when they fall behind in their academic performance which they are proud of, patients are not able to get out of their feelings and emotions of failure, so that they become potential triggers for the onset of the disease. At this time, it is almost impossible for patients to establish new interests and hobbies, and they can only sink and collapse in the bull’s-eye of failure. Therefore, patients are encouraged to start building new hobbies and interests as soon as they begin to recover from their illnesses, including interest in beautiful nature and happy dating activities, so that they can eventually integrate themselves into a normal life pattern and enter a normal life track. If we want to achieve the above goal, it is the only right choice to actively participate in various forms of social activities, establish and form hobbies that can enable patients to seek rich resources of happiness, and make them become a social person with sufficient and adequate connection to the society, and with completely normal social functioning. From this point of view, if the patient achieves such a functional state, stopping the drug and maintaining a completely normal state is entirely possible. Fourth, adequate and appropriate amount of physical exercise and healthy dietary patterns. Humans are animals, and those in their natural state must be advanced animals with sufficient adequate exercise. Although man is no longer required to be busy running around for food, exercise is still one of the most necessary activities for man. Exercise not only provides humans with the most basic way to stay fit, but it is also a fundamental form of socialization. The sports that really have a large following or fan base are those with multiple participants and full competition, such as soccer, basketball, and volleyball. Therefore, we recommend that people with mental disorders should participate in these types of group sports with multiple participants as much as possible. This addresses the need for social activities as well as the need for physical exercise. In addition, patients will gain weight during treatment with psychiatric drugs. This is partly due to the accumulation of subcutaneous fat as a side effect of the medication itself, and partly related to the patient’s reluctance to engage in physical activity after the illness as well as after taking the medication. Therefore, increasing physical activity also helps to reduce weight and improve physical fitness. Of course, effective control of diet, especially high carbohydrate intake, also plays an important role. Because alcohol can cause changes in liver drug enzyme activity, especially increase drug enzyme activity, leading to a decrease in drug efficacy, we are opposed to patients drinking alcohol during treatment so as not to affect the efficacy of the treatment. Moreover, alcohol may also increase the sedative effect of certain psychotropic drugs with sedative effects, leading to the side effect of excessive sedation. It is especially worth emphasizing that alcohol has a so-called “de-stabilizing” effect, which may also lead to fluctuations in the condition during treatment, and there have been many cases of recurring illnesses caused by alcohol consumption.