What are the signs of mental illness?

Mental illness is a relatively large category of disease, and there are many types of mental illness. When a patient becomes ill, there are often some signs. For example, the patient's thinking will be broken, the problem he is thinking about will have no focus, it will cause certain emotional disorders, he will be more distant and cold towards his relatives, he will often have hallucinations and delusions, etc. Let's understand what the symptoms of mental illness are.

What are the signs of mental illness?

(1) Broken thinking

The patient has no focus when thinking about a problem, and there is no connection between the first thought and the second thought. When speaking, his words are incoherent, confusing, and lack order. Doctors were completely unable to communicate verbally or conduct medical examinations with patients whose minds were broken.

(2) Emotional disorders

Becoming distant, cold, or even hostile to relatives. He is indifferent and unconcerned about everything, sits in boredom all day, and lets his mind wander. Patients with obvious emotional disorders completely lose the ability to manage themselves, which seriously affects their eating, sleeping and resting, causing serious harm to their own health.

(3) Hallucinations and delusions

Auditory hallucinations are the most common type of hallucinations. The patient hears someone talking to her in the air or on the roof, or hears some people talking about her. The patient's behavior is often affected by hallucinations, and he or she may even obey the "instructions" of the hallucinations and perform some dangerous actions. Hallucinations and delusions can lead to sudden behavioral changes, and may cause sudden mental symptoms such as suicide, self-harm, impulsivity, running away, and lack of self-awareness.

(4) Sleep changes

Gradually or suddenly it becomes difficult to fall asleep, you wake up easily or have a shallow sleep, you have nightmares all night, or you sleep too much. This is a common symptom of mental illness.

(5) Sensitive and suspicious

He is extremely sensitive to everything and associates some ordinary things around him with himself, thinking that they are directed against him. Always observe the words and expressions of others and pay attention to their every move.

(6) Abnormal behavior

The behavior gradually becomes strange, secretive or incomprehensible, the person likes to be alone, uncomfortably pursues the opposite sex, is shameless, talks and laughs to himself, lives a lazy life, is dazed, sleeps with his head covered, wanders outside, and does not return home at night.