Mental Illness, Depression, Suicide, and Therapy

Mental Illness, Depression, Suicide, and Therapy

According to WHO, mental health is a condition of the individual's perceived well-being, in which there are abilities to manage the natural stress of life, to work productively and produce, as well as participate in his community. While mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities.

Currently more than 450 million people worldwide live with mental disorders. Prevalence of interference mentality in the world population by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2000 obtained mental disorder data of 12%, 2001 increased to 13%. Year 2002 survey results show that 154 million people globally are depressed and 25 million people suffering from schizophrenia, 15 million people are under the influence of substance abuse, 50 million people suffering from epilepsy and about 877,000 people die from suicide each year.

Treatments are available for them, but nearly two-thirds of people with a known mental disorder never seek help from a health professional. Stigma, discrimination and neglect prevent care and treatment from reaching people with mental disorders, says the World Health Organization (WHO).

People with psychiatric disorders or mental are still regarded as a thing embarrassing or a disgrace for the family or a relative of one of the members families experience health problems mental or psychological. Society considers that disturbance mental health or no psychiatric can be cured so divide sufferers deserve to be ostracized. The least knowledge of health problems mental or psychiatric, making society gives assessment that people with the mental disorder or different psyches with those who are physically ill can not be cured or difficult healed.

 

There are many factors that can trigger a person to commit suicide, such as economic problems, family conflicts, social rejection, romance, sexual abuse, bullying, and terrorism. About 90 percent of people who die of suicide actually suffer from psychiatric illness. The most common cause of mental disorders is depression. Common features in people with severe depression are a feeling of despair, a bad mood, feeling tired, or losing interest and motivation. Such characteristics can have a devastating effect on the life of the person as a whole. In the end, it triggers them to be more likely to try to commit suicide.

People who think about suicide need a help not only from their family, but also the society. One of the things that can help them is therapy. Therapy could save your life. Many of the belief systems you had grown up with and internalized were not correct and were, in fact, hurting you. For therapy to work, you have to open to change. You have to accept that your way of thinking may be wrong and that your beliefs may be what is making you sick. You have to change your ways to make healthier choices if you are going to get better.

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