Mental disorders

 

Mental disorders

When people have mental or spiritual problems, they cannot be said to be perfectly sane. When a person's mental health is compromised, they suffer from disturbances in mood, thinking, and emotional control, which can lead to bad behavior.

Some examples of types of mental disorders are stress, depression, anxiety disorders, anxiety, feelings of inferiority, and many others.

Nowadays, mental health is often neglected and ranges from mild to severe mental disorders. Often the symptoms of mental disorders appear imperceptible to the patient and others. Because the symptoms of mental disorders are not enough to observe with the naked eye. Failure to get the right treatment right away is fatal to a person's mental state.

So far, many people call people with mental disorders crazy. In fact, according to Margareta, the word "crazy" in terms of terminology does not describe anything in the field of psychology.

How do we know when to speak up, meaning we need to have insight, empathy, and critical thinking. Mental health is not without pain. Mental health is when a person can fulfill their potential, manage the stresses of their life, be productive and contribute to society.

Psychiatric disorders are among the main causes mentioned and include major depression. Depression is also known as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and obsessive compulsive disorder.

The development of mental disorders in the past year is described below:

• Disorders show that nearly 10% of American adults age 18 and older have a depressive disorder.
• About one in four adults is diagnosed with a mental disorder each year
• Women are twice as likely to be depressed as men, but men and women are equally likely to develop bipolar disorder.
• Although major depression can develop at any age, it is believed to start in your 20s.
• The median age at onset of the first episode of bipolar disorder, which affects approximately 2.6% of people over the age of 18 in any given year, is approximately 20 years.
• Many people suffer from comorbid mental disorders such as depression, in particular, often accompanied by drug use and anxiety disorders.
• Schizophrenia affects about 1% of Americans, with most cases starting in adolescence or 20 years of age. Schizophrenia often occurs in women before their twenties or early thirties.
• Approximately 18% of people aged 18 to 54 experience an anxiety disorder each year. Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), and phobias (sociophobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobia).

According to studies, 5.8% of patients with COVID-19 experience symptoms of a psychiatric disorder for the first time within 14 to 90 days. At the same time, 2.8 patients with influenza, 3.4 respiratory infections, 3.3 skin infections, 3.2 gallstones, 2.5 percent of patients with fractures had symptoms of mental disorders for the first time.

The risk of contracting the coronavirus is 65% higher in people with mental illness, said the study's lead researcher and professor of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, adding that these people's fears are reasonable and very reasonable. This study shows that Covid-19 further increases the risk of mental disorders. The study also found that people who already had a mental illness were 65 percent more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19.

In this study, researchers analyzed the mental health of patients with COVID-19, as well as patients suffering from diseases such as influenza, respiratory diseases, skin infections, bone fractures, gallstones, and kidney stones. According to the analysis, 18 percent of patients with coronavirus, 13 percent of patients with influenza, and about 12.7 percent of patients with fractures are at risk of psychiatric disorders.

Amazingly, more than 50 million people worldwide are affected by this virus. Although until December last year, 5,810,785 people died from it.

The seriousness of this virus can be judged from the fact that this virus has spread to 216 countries around the world and there is almost no one on this earth has not contracted this virus, this corona pandemic has become one of the main causes of very high mental health. A disease that causes high mortality worldwide.

For people with schizophrenia, the age can be reduced to 10 to 20 years. People with bipolar disorder die early, between the ages of nine and twenty. While depression can reduce a person's age by seven to eleven years. People suffering from mental illness due to alcohol and drug abuse have a shorter life expectancy of 9 to 24 years.

While this study shows that mental illness can shorten life, it does not show a cause and effect relationship. One thing that many people need to know is that mental health problems usually affect physical health, such as B. heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This can be associated with mental disorders with premature death.

Prevention of mental disorders

Not all mental disorders can be prevented, but some steps can be taken to reduce the risk of mental disorders, including:

• Continue to be actively involved in positive relationships and activities that you enjoy.
• Share with friends and family when you face problems.
• Exercise regularly, eat well, and manage stress well.
• Go to bed at the same time and wake up at the same time every day.
• Try calming and mental relaxation exercises
• Find a hobby or activity that you enjoy, like singing, watching funny things, light reading, etc.
• Limit consumption of alcoholic and caffeinated beverages.
• See a doctor or psychologist immediately for an initial evaluation or if you have symptoms of a psychiatric disorder.