What to do if you have mental illness

The manifestations of a mental patient's condition are different, and the symptoms will occur on their own. A person with psychosis experiences confusion and often feels dizzy and light-headed. Once a mental illness occurs, a variety of symptoms will occur. For example, they may swear, fight, or feel depressed, shout, and cry. Therefore, we should pay attention to regulating and relieving the patient's emotions. What should we do if he suffers from mental illness? What should we do if he curses others?

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First of all, it needs to be made clear that neurology and psychiatry are not the same concept in rigorous science. Both belong to the secondary disciplines of clinical medicine. However, there are many overlaps in the research contents of the two disciplines, and many diseases cannot be simply defined within the scope of a single discipline.

Neurology in a broad sense refers to the study of neurology. Neurology is the discipline that studies the symptoms, pathogenesis, etiology and pathology, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, prevention and treatment of nervous system and muscle diseases. The nervous system can be divided into two major parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The former is responsible for analyzing and integrating information from the internal and external environment and responding, while the latter is responsible for nerve conduction impulses. Human language, memory, thinking, judgment, reasoning and other higher-level neural function activities all need to be completed by our nervous system. Therefore, neurosis in a narrow sense refers to diseases of the nervous system.

The manifestations of neurological diseases are diverse. Headaches, dizziness, visual impairment, hearing impairment, pronunciation disorders, etc. are all clinical symptoms of neurological diseases, but the most common symptoms are impaired consciousness and cognitive impairment. Coincidentally, this is also the most common symptom of mental illness.

Psychiatry is a discipline that studies the causes, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, disease development patterns, treatment and prevention of mental illness. Mental illness (now more commonly referred to as mental disorder) refers to mental problems with diagnostic significance, such as changes in cognition, emotion, behavior, etc., which may be accompanied by painful experiences or functional impairment. Generally, mental disorders are divided into organic mental disorders and non-organic mental disorders according to the presence or absence of organic lesions in the nervous system. Psychiatry in a narrow sense only studies non-organic mental disorders.

In recent years, more and more scholars believe that it is more appropriate to change the name of "psychiatry" to "psychiatric medicine", because it seems inappropriate to characterize many mental disorders as "diseases", but they do fall within the scope of medicine.