To quote Franklin Roosevelt, “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.” .
Everything only exists in the mind. Indeed, the ways we are influenced and behaved is normally called the system. It starts with cognition, then it’s put to action. However, it is normal to ask what will happen when our mind goes out of control. This can mean that our behavior will function abnormally. The mind is a very powerful part of us that somehow, whatever it thinks becomes seemingly genuine for the individual when actually it is not. When this happens, our entire personality is affected and could have an impact in our lives as well as affect the people around us.
Psychiatric Diseases are mental health disorder. It is a clinically significant behavioral that occurs in an individual that is associated with present distress such as a painful symptom, disability, or a significantly increased risk of death, pain, disability, or an important loss of freedom. Moreover, this syndrome is not just an expected and culturally sanctioned response to a particular event. For example, the loss of a loved one. Some examples of mental illnesses are schizophrenia and major depressive disorder. One is diagnosed with psychiatrical disorder when one experiences the following symptoms: confusion; erratic behavior; hearing voices; hallucinations; headaches; depression; anxiety; fatigue; weight loss; anorexia. If a person has three or more of these symptoms, then he/she might have a psychiatric disorder.
Disorders of the mind do not show specific causes. However, a blend of biological, psychological, and environmental factors would add to the acquirement of certain mental disorders. A few biological factors include genetics, prenatal damage, and substance abuse. Substance abuse could affect the chemical stability in the brain thus leading to a dysfunction. And for some, psychiatric disorders are hereditary. Example, a person with schizophrenia is said to have a relative also having schizophrenia. Psychological and environmental factors may include abuse. Every individual’s experiences can impact his or her well being. If there are hurting experiences that was not repaired, it might lead to a mental disorder.
Psychiatric disorders are treated with therapy- behaviors or cognitive, and medications. Antidepressants are used for individuals who are clinicall depressed and anxious. Anxiolytics are used for anxiety disorders. This can be also used by people afflicted insomnia. There are mood stabilizers for bipolar disorders and antipsychotic for psychotic disorders. In addition, electroconvulsive therapy is sometimes used in severe cases when other interventions for depression have been unsuccessful. Creative therapies such as music, art, and drama therapy are also being used. Also, in line with the cognitive-behavioral therapy, lifestyle adjustments and supportive measures are used such as support groups.
Some disorders are transient and some may last a lifetime. In some way, the given treatment will never take away the disorder but will only lessen the symptom to be able to make an individual live a normal life. A few disorders may be very limited in their parctiacl effects, while some may entail substantial disability and support needs.
There is no choosing on who can be affected with psychiatric disorders. Based on varying personalities, one could possibly build up a mental disorder depending on how he/she react to stimulus around his or her environment such as stressful events in one’s life. For example, a loss of a loved one is a traumatic yet natural phase in a person’s life. Almost everyone gets a chance to experience loss. A person’s natural reaction to loss is grieve, anger, pain, and other negative emotions. However, any emotion normally has its limit. Thus, the negative feeling soon subsides and is replaced with hope and strength so as the person tries to recover from the loss. On the other hand, when one’s negative emotion such as sadness does not subside, the diagnosis is different. Moreover, when this emotion leads to the person’s dysfunctional- his/her normal life is disrupted and health is negatively affected- the person might be needing professional help. We can say that this individual has acquired a mental disorder due to not recovering from the loss.
Our own minds will always serve us our prison cells.Anyone can always say that being happy is a state of mind yet we must also take into account that being sad is also a state of mind.
