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Practices in Mental Health:
What are the practices
in mental health? Most people believe that mental health experts merely
sit and discuss problems with patients. The fact is these experts
have more to contend with than merely discussing problems. The experts
are responsible to keep notes, evaluate the patient’s problems
carefully, and find a solution for what is causing the problem. Mental
health is never easy since counselors’ everyday evaluate patients
with all types of disorders, diseases and so forth. Experts commonly
study diagnosis such as schizophrenia, posttraumatic stress disorder,
histrionic, antisocial, psychopathic, and so forth every day.
Since mental health
has many areas of study, it is often difficult to find a solution.
The many disorders, diseases of the mind, and other related mental
health issues are in constant search of developing strategies that
work toward a better future. Looking at a few of the diagnoses can
help us to understand the practices in mental health. Let us start
out light and work our way through a series of complex mental illnesses.
While there are many suffering with eating disorders and disconnections
the problem seem simple to repair, however it is more complex than
many realize.
If a person has an
eating disorder it is probably linked to a childhood where negligence
came into play. For example, the patient may have grown up in a home
where money was tight. The parents may have struggled to keep food
on the table, and often the child ate one meal per day. Later the
child was able to eat two meals per day however, this amount decreased
again. The problem starts with nutrition. The patient was malnutrition
meaning that a normal eating habit was never developed. Now we have
established a root of the problem, we can see that mental will follow
since the patient probably feels a sense of resentment toward the
lifestyle he or she lived and some of that resentment is on the parents.
Regardless of the effort they may or may have not made to feed the
children, it was their responsibility to find a solution to maintain
a healthy living environment.
Probably because this
patient was suffering malnutrition the patient was also suffer insufficient
emotional support. This is all grounds for eating disorders and disconnection
to come into focus. Now what if the patient is anorexia or bulimic?
What if the patient has a deeper problem than eating disorders? What
if the patient is putting his or her finger down her throat to throw
up? Then we are looking at medical, mental, and eating disorders combined.
As you can see what seems a simple problem turns into a rollercoaster
ride for both the patient and therapist.
What about anxiety
disorders? So the person gets upset now and then. What is the problem
we all do this. First, we must understand that anxiety disorder is
not only stress or shaking of the hands when upset. Anxiety disorders
include symptoms such as phobia of public, feelings of despair, sadness,
hysteria, heart palpitations, sexual conflicts, and the list goes
on. Now we started with what seemed to be a simple problem, but after
evaluating a few of the symptoms we can see we are looking at a major
problem that requires extensive evaluation. Panic disorder is another
(what seems to be simple to fix) diagnosis. However, panic disorder
like anxiety disorders has complicated symptoms, including phobia,
chest pain, breathing difficulties, blackouts, and so on. We can see
that the disorder has potential risks since both the body and mind
are affected. To treat the disorder we must look at all aspects of
the patients, including the symptoms.
Not everyone with panic
or anxiety disorders suffer the same symptoms. In fact, some patients
suffer less than others do. Therefore, we do not have a common ground
to stand on, but at the same time, we have common denominators that
can direct us in the right path to resolve. Practices of mental health
are not as simple as many believe. There is more to mental health
than most realizes and this includes the people that study mental
health, since they too are always searching for better solutions and
answers. While we see that the practices vary, we also must examine
criminal law and how it too plays a role in mental health.
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