Living With Someone With Mental Health Issues

Mental disorders or mental disorders are diseases that affect emotions, thought patterns, and behavior of sufferers. As with physical illness, mental illness also has a cure.

Mental disorders can be treated with psychotherapy and medication. In certain cases, the doctor will provide a combination of both treatment methods and advise patients to live a healthy lifestyle.

Symptoms of Mental Disorders

Symptoms and signs of mental disorders depend on the type of disorder experienced. Patients can experience interference with emotions, thought patterns, and behavior. Some examples of symptoms of mental disorders are:

• Delusions or delusions, namely believing something that is not real or not in accordance with actual facts.
• Hallucinations, which are sensations when someone sees, hears, or feels something that is not real.
• Moods change in certain periods.
• Feelings of sadness that last for weeks, even months.
• Feelings of anxiety and fear are excessive and continuously, until it disrupts daily activities.
• Eating disorders such as feeling afraid of gaining weight, tend to vomit food, or eat large amounts.
• Changes in sleep patterns, such as drowsiness and sleep, difficulty sleeping, and breathing problems and restless legs during sleep.
• Addicted to nicotine and alcohol, and drug abuse.
• Excessive temper tantrums and acts of violence.
• Unusual behavior, such as unclear screaming, talking and laughing to yourself, and leaving the house naked.
• In addition to psychological-related symptoms, sufferers of mental disorders can also experience physical symptoms, such as headaches, backaches, and heartburn.

If people around you show symptoms of mental disorders, invite them to share and talk carefully about the symptoms they are experiencing. If possible, take him to see a psychiatrist.

Quickly go to a mental hospital if there are signs of hurting yourself and others, especially if there is a desire to commit suicide. If this happens to people around you, stay with him and call an emergency number.

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