What are mental illnesses?

In fact, there are many mental illnesses in today's life, which may bring more adverse effects to both the patients and the people around them. Therefore, we should definitely pay more attention to the prevention and health care of these diseases in our daily life. Do you know what types of mental illnesses there are? Now let's learn about it together.

No matter what kind of disease you want to receive better treatment, you need to understand some of its various health care work in your daily life. Only in this way can you better reduce the disease and bring more adverse effects to our health.

1. Simple type:

The comparative type is less common, accounting for about 1% to 4% in domestic statistics . It occurs in adolescence, with no obvious cause. In addition, the onset is slow, the disease persists and gradually worsens, often leading to mental decline in the end. Its main clinical manifestations are decreased volitional activity and emotional indifference, poor thinking, no interest in anything, no demands, being enclosed in a lonely little world, completely isolated from the outside world.

2. Nervous type:

The disease mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people, with a rapid onset, but some cases also present with an acute onset. The course of the disease is paroxysmal.

The main clinical symptom is movement disorder. It manifests as catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement, the former is motor inhibition and the latter is motor excitement. Both may appear alone or alternately , but the former is more common. Can resolve on its own, have a good prognosis, and respond well to treatment

3. Adolescent type: The disease mostly occurs during adolescence, with acute or subacute onset. Some patients also develop the disease at a later age. The main clinical manifestations are emotional inversion, emotional instability, crying, laughing, or moodiness, which are unpredictable and elusive. The most prominent symptom is the thinking disorder, which is characterized by typical fragmented thinking, increased and disorganized speech, and fragmented sentences lacking core content. There are fragmentary delusions, which are often not fixed, changeable, and have absurd and bizarre content.

4. Delusional type:

This type is the most common of the four types. According to domestic statistics, this type of patients account for more than half of schizophrenia patients in hospitalized patients and in some census materials. The age of onset is relatively late, mostly in young adults or middle-aged people. The onset is slow, but there are also cases with acute or subacute onset. The clinical manifestations are suspicion and sensitivity, which gradually develop into delusions.

The above is some introduction about mental illness. I hope that through these introductions, everyone can have a more comprehensive understanding of this common sense. As long as we pay attention to these common sense of diseases, we can treat and solve such situations more rationally when we encounter them.

This will better reduce the adverse effects of the disease.