Good mood: Is it enough to treat mental illness?

Let's announce the answer first: I want to get rid of mental illness, and I often do not achieve my ideal effect by taking medicine!

First of all, there are no "100%effective" drugs in the world, and psychiatric drugs are no exception.

Drug efficacy varies from person to person. For example, in patients with schizophrenia, patients with 1/3 to 1/2 have poor reactions against psychiatric drugs; among patients with depression, only 30%to 45%of patients can obtain a complete clinical symptoms after standardized treatment. ease.

Furthermore, drugs are slightly inferior to certain problems, such as patients' feelings and psychological pressure.

A large number of clinical studies have found that in the process of mental illness recovery, many patients and friends will have a greater psychological burden: they will be anxious because of the side effects of drugs, always worrying about whether family and friends can accept themselves, and fear that they cannot be competent .. ....

These "heart knots" will become a stumbling block on the road of mental illness, but the drugs have little effect in dealing with the "heart knot". Therefore, if we want to defeat mental illness, we must not rely on taking medicine, and we have to find other "foreign aid", such as psychotherapy.

What can psychotherapy play on mental illness?

Many people will have such an idea: psychotherapy is to find someone to chat, and it cannot solve any practical problems.

It is undeniable that psychotherapy is indeed based on conversation, but it is different from the persuasion between ordinary friends and requires "technical content". For example, when a psychotherapist asked, "Where are you from? What work?", This may be evaluating your social and cultural background, interpersonal relationships, and even personality characteristics.

During the treatment process, psychotherapists will use the principles of psychiatry and psychology to actively affect patients through conversation, non -verbal communication and special arrangements, change psychological experience and behavior, achieve pain, improve personality, adapt to society, and The purpose of treating diseases and promoting recovery.

1. Psychotherapist will explain the disease -related knowledge to patients, help patients look at their own disease reasonably, face the side effects brought by drugs, improve the confidence of patient treatment, allow patients to accept and actively cooperate with treatment. I fight with the patients for taking medicine;

2. Psychotherapists can help mental illness patients analyze their own psychological problems and "take the right medicine." For example, encouraging patients who often feel anxious do more training of physical and mental relaxation, so as to disperse their attention;

3. Psychotherapy can improve the cognitive method of patients, and then change the views of life events, prevent emotional problems from being caused by unreasonable attribution. For example, others do not respond to your news in time, not just hate you, but also because there are other anxiety at hand to be busy;

4. Psychotherapy can also cultivate patients 'self -guidance awareness, improve patients' resistance to pressure, and reduce the impact of external stimuli on him.

These changes brought by psychotherapy to patients can have a positive impact on the comprehensive relief of mental illness.

Some experts randomly divided 248 patients with mental illness into two groups. One group of patients only asked them to take medicine to control the disease, and the other was psychotherapy on the basis of drug treatment.

It was found that compared with patients who only took medicine, the proportion of abnormal behavior, abnormal personality, and abnormal language was low, and the number of recurrences of condition was significantly reduced.

There are also clinical studies from domestic and foreign countries that have also confirmed that psychotherapy combined drug treatment can effectively improve the mental symptoms of patients, accelerate the treatment of the disease, and help patients return to normal life as soon as possible.

Therefore, while drug treatment, do not ignore psychological treatment ~

Which psychotherapy is the most effective to treat mental illness?

So far, no school can describe the psychology of people very clearly. Therefore, the psychological genres can be described as "a hundred schools of contention" now, with hundreds of large and small.

This is like many drugs such as A, B, C, and D that treats cough. They all have cough effects, but the mechanism that exerts the effect is not the same.

Commonly used clinical psychological therapy methods include cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), group nostalgic therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, supportive psychotherapy, and so on.

So which psychotherapy is the most effective?

The current call is relatively high is cognitive behavior therapy.

Cognitive behavior therapy is the psychotherapy with the most evidence of evidence -based medical evidence, and it can be used to treat various mental diseases such as schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety. So what is its efficacy compared to other psychotherapy?

In fact, different methods have similar curative effects and each have their own advantages, but no therapy is suitable for all patients. As for which one should be used, you only need to choose according to your condition and preference.

Here, although a good mood can not give me suggestions for the choice of treatment methods, I can tell you 3 tricks to improve the effect of psychological treatment:

1. To cooperate with the doctor

As mentioned earlier, psychotherapy is a process of cooperation between two or more people. It is not like drug treatment. Regardless of whether the patient is subjectively recognized, as long as it is eaten, it will work. The effect of psychotherapy depends on the cooperation between the two parties. If the patient does not cooperate, the doctor is futile no matter how hard you work.

2. Open your heart

In the process of psychotherapy, doctors may ask patients with some privacy or contraindications, and these topics are often the cause of the patient. Therefore, the more patients who can reveal the inner experience, the more they can benefit from psychological treatment. 3. Be able to endure pain

Just as "good medicine and bitter mouth", psychotherapy often involves the pain of patients, or prompts patients to do something they don't want to do, such as facing past pain, reality pressure, ashamed of the lust of opening their mouths.

But for the long -term benefits, we must endure these pains and actively cooperate with doctors to continue treatment.

Finally, I sincerely wish everyone to get rid of the magic claws of mental illness soon ~

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