There are many mental illnesses

Many people suffer from mental disorders due to various life problems. If left untreated, this disease can develop mental illness. Many types of mental illness, ranging from addictions to personality disorders.

Mental illness is a mental disorder that affects mood, state of mind, and general behavior. Someone called suffering from mental illness, if the symptoms are felt to make him depressed and unable to perform normal daily activities.

 

The characteristics of people with mental illness can vary by type. But in general, people suffering from mental disorders can be identified from certain symptoms, such as very radical mood changes, ranging from very sad to very happy or vice versa, feeling excessive fear, withdrawing from social life, often feeling very angry because want to do the same thing. violence and delusional experiences. Sometimes these symptoms are also accompanied by physical problems, such as headaches, backaches, stomachaches, or other unexplained pain.

Causes of mental illness

The cause of mental illness is often unknown. Mental illness can be motivated by various things. Generally caused by genetic factors, environmental factors or a combination of factors including:

• Natural chemical compounds in the brain, called neurotransmitters, have the function of transmitting messages to the body and brain. This change in chemical reaction can affect mood and various aspects of mental health.
• Having a bloody family with a history of mental illness. Some genes can increase the risk of developing mental illness. His appearance can be caused by life problems experienced by people suffering from mental illness.
• Exposure to viruses, poisons, intoxicants, and drugs in the womb can be associated with causes of mental illness.
• Have experienced a traumatic event, such as being raped or being a victim of a natural disaster.
• Taking illegal drugs
• Live a stressful life, such as financial difficulties, divorce, or sadness from family members who have died.
• Living chronic diseases, such as cancer.
• Brain damage.
• Have little or no friends and feel lonely.
• Never had a mental illness before.

The items listed above are risk factors that can increase a person's risk of mental illness. Find a solution as soon as possible, if you or your family or friends meet one or more of the conditions above, to prevent the disease from escalating into mental illness.

So what can we call mental illness?

Many health problems can be classified as mental illness. Each group can be further divided into more specific types. Here are some conditions that often occur:

• Anxiety disorders

Someone with anxiety disorder reacts to certain objects or situations with feelings of fear, panic, sweating, and rapid heartbeat. This is called a disorder if they cannot control their symptoms and have disrupted their daily lives. Anxiety disorders can also be in the form of phobias of certain situations, social anxiety disorders or panic disorders.

• Personality Disorders

People with personality disorders usually have extreme and rigid characteristics that are generally incompatible with social habits, such as antisocial or paranoid behavior.

• Disorders or effective moods

People with mood disorders may continue to feel sad, too happy for a period of time, or have moods and moods that fluctuate alternately. The most common forms of this disease are bipolar disorder, depression and cyclomytic disorders, which result in mood swings from happy to sad, but moderate.

• Impaired inability to control desire

People with this disorder can not resist the urge from within him to do things that actually endanger yourself or others. Mental disorders included in this group include kleptomania (the urge to steal small items), piromania (likes to ignite a fire), alcoholism and drugs.

•     Psychosis disorders

This disorder confuses the human mind and consciousness. Hallucinations and delusions are the two most common symptoms of this condition. People who experience hallucinations feel seeing or hearing sounds that are not actually real. While delusions are not true things that are believed by sufferers to be true, for example chasing delusions, where sufferers feel followed by someone. The best known example of a psychotic disorder is schizophrenia.

•     Eating disorders

Sufferers experience changes in behavior, habits, and emotions related to weight and food. The most common example of this disorder is anorexia nervosa, where the patient does not want to eat and has an abnormal fear of weight gain. Another example is bulimia nervosa, where sufferers overeat and vomit on purpose. There are also binge-eating conditions or conditions when a person eats continuously in large quantities and feels unable to stop, but is not accompanied by vomiting food again.

•     Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

OCD sufferer's mind is constantly filled with fear or disturbing thoughts called obsessive. This condition makes them perform a 'ritual' repeatedly, which is called compulsive. Examples are people who continually wash their hands for excessive fear of germs.

•     Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Is a mental disorder that occurs after a person experiences a traumatic event, such as the death of a loved family member suddenly, sexual harassment, or natural disasters.

•     Stress response syndrome or adjustment disorder

That is when a person becomes emotional and experiences changes in behavior after being under conditions under pressure, such as conditions of crisis, divorce, natural disasters, loss of work.

•     Dissociative Disorders

Sufferers experience severe disturbances in identity, memory, and awareness of themselves and their environment. This disorder is often known as multiple personalities.

•     Sexual and gender disorders

Disorders that affect sexual arousal and behavior, such as paraphilia and gender identity disorders.

•     Somatoform disorders

Experiencing pain or pain in his limbs, even though the doctor did not find any medical disorders.

In addition to the above conditions, several other conditions, such as Alzheimer's dementia and sleep disorders, are also classified as mental illness because they involve disorders in the brain. This disease generally cannot improve by itself or even worsen if not treated immediately. Handling will be adjusted to the severity, type, and cause of the disorder.

Medications that can be used include antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and anti-anxiety. Usually mental patients will get one or several of the following therapies, namely: psychotherapy, brain stimulation to deal with mental disorders and depression, or treatment in a mental hospital. In addition to medical care, family support and comfortable environmental conditions are a determining factor in the recovery of mental patients who are able to return to normal activities.

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