all about mental illness

UNDERSTANDING MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental illness, in general is disorder of brain, our body's most important organ. Our brain is our body's control center. It controls our breathing, movement, sight, emotion, rearing, heart beat, memory other cells, coordination, speech, thinking etc. our brain is made up of billion of nerve cell and electrically thousands of others cells. In less than a second our brain send electrical message down the length of a nerve cell. The electrical message is change into a chemical message, which is sent to another nerve cell. The nerve cell changes the chemical message back to an electrical message. These steps keep on repeating until our brain's message reaches to its destination. If any part of this system isn't working properly, mental illnesses can result.

Mental illness is no one's fault-----not the family's not the person's. There are infinite causes of mental illness for instanced birth trauma, chemical imbalances in the brain, and various others biological, environmental, and social cultural factors. Using cruel labels, such as "crazy" or "psycho" causes pain and discourages people from seeking help. People suffering from mental disease are more likely to be victims of violence. Today millions of people affected by depression, anxiety and other mental illnesses. Mental illness can affect anyone; can strike people of all age groups, races, and income levels whether or not there is a family history of mental illness.

Affective disorder, also called as "mood disorders" are common types of mental illness, which include depression and bipolar disorder. Depression is a lasting feeling of great sadness or helplessness. A person suffering from depression finds it hard to get pleasures from life, may sleep a lot or very little, lacks energy, feels worthless, may think a lot about death and suicide. Biopolar disorder is also called as manic -depressive illness. The person suffering from it may have extreme mood swings (highs and lows). The possible causes for them include biological illness, a chemical imbalance in brain, heredity, stress and other factors too.

Other common mental illnesses are anxiety disorders, marked by severe or lasting fear or anxiety. A person suffering from general anxiety will have constant tension or irritability. Phobias means strong fear about an object, place or situation. Panic attacks include sudden fear or terror causing heart fluttering, dizziness, sweating etc.one of the most important possible cause of anxiety disorder is brain's in ability to chemically control anxiety along with others too.

The warning signs of mental illness includes changes in daily routine (such as sleeping or eating more), confused thinking, delusions, denial, abuse of alcohol or other drugs, lasting depression, mood swings, hallucinations, inability to cope with daily activites, excessive fears or worries, strong feelings of anger fear, suicidal thoughts or threats, withdrawl from family life, friends and usual activities these signs may gradually occurs and can be lasting be lasting or severe. Mental illness is curable. For proper treatment, have a professional diagnosis and a medical checkup. Treatment method includes a combination of pyschotherapy, medications, and eletro convulsive therapy. Conginitive-behavioural therapy is one of the effective kinds of psychotherapy, helping people learn new ways of thinking and behaving. It helps people understand their illness, dealing with any problem the illness causes, and upper most making the changes in their lives. Medication helps correcting chemical imbalances, which enables people to enjoy relief form or reduction of symptoms.electroconvulsive therapy is a part of treatment plan for people who are suicidal severely depressed or difficult to manage behaviorally.

For fast recovery of people suffering from mental illness needs lot of understanding, support just as people with other health conditions do. Spend time with them, maintain your relationship and let the person suffering from mental illness know that he or she can count on your love and support.

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