How to communicate with a mentally ill person

It is indeed troublesome to communicate with mentally ill patients. Ordinary people cannot really enter their thinking and thought world, which often leads to communication barriers. Especially for some medical patients, only by communicating well with the patients can further treatment be carried out and good treatment effects be obtained. Therefore, it is more important to communicate with mentally ill patients.

How to communicate with a mentally ill person

When I was very young, I heard a saying: "Communication is the bridge of the soul"; mental patients themselves bear a double burden. On the one hand, they are tortured and miserable because of the troubles of the disease, and that is not enough. On the other hand, they have to endure the gazes and distance from outsiders, as well as contempt and other disgusted looks. These manifestations are enough to traumatize the patient, so good communication is needed to more thoroughly restore health.

Psychiatric Nursing Considerations

1. Once the patient has special skills or is in the recovery period, psychiatric nursing can arrange more complex work and entertainment activities, such as rehearsing cultural programs, painting, ball games, sewing, knitting, making fine handicrafts, etc. These are beneficial to the patient's intellectual training, recovery of work ability, and improvement of life interest, thus laying a good foundation for his/her discharge from hospital and return to work.

2. In daily life, patients can combine their condition with their physical strength, arrange appropriate work and recreational activities through some interests and observations, and give spiritual encouragement and enthusiastic guidance at any time during the activities to enhance their interest. Nursing for mental illness is very important. In addition to medical care, some vocational and recreational care should be provided to guide and change the patient's thinking and mood.

3. For patients with mild illness, relaxing and enjoyable entertainment activities and simple manual work can be arranged for patients to pass the time. Nursing for the mentally ill includes watching TV, movies, art performances, taking walks, reading picture magazines, pasting envelopes (medicine bags), removing yarn ends, weeding outdoors, cleaning the environment, etc., so that patients can divert their morbid thinking and relax their thoughts and emotions, and feel that they are capable of doing their job.

4. For patients who are depressed and in low spirits, they can be placed in an environment with many people and an active atmosphere, and colorful items can be selected for occupational therapy. They can also be allowed to participate in passionate, joyful and enjoyable recreational activities. This is also one of the nursing measures for mental illness.