Mental Health

[mistreata]

1.How many new cases of severe personality disorders will you have in a year?
2.How are the patients treated, medication is used in all cases, or is there an alternative way of treatment?
3.Do things improve in the mental hospitals or is it better, for some patients, to do their treatment at home?
4.Do patients know, sometimes, that they need treatment, or they do not realise that they are sick?
5.What changes can we all make to have a healthier society?

[corlenbelspar]

1. Hard telling, I can't find any info on Google and NIMH's 'the numbers count' thing on their website that tells you the prevalence of each mental disorder, which I'm guessing is in any given year, has no info at all on personality disorders that I know of.

2. Personality disorders are difficult to treat especially with medication because there's no chemical imbalance in the brain which is pretty much what all psych meds do.  I don't know if meds work or not for them because I was told my a therapist meds don't work at all due to there being no chemical imbalance but I know of people with Borderline Personality Disorder who are on meds for it.  Things like psychotherapy can be of great benefit but can is the keyword and everyone responds differently.

3. Mental hospitals are a more controlled setting.  You go there as an option like if your meds are being adjusted or you can be sectioned involuntarily if you're out of control for example in various ways such as being a danger to yourself or others or if you can't take care of yourself and a few other scenarios.

4. Everyone is different.  Some people know there is something wrong with them and seek help while others are oblivious to it due to lack of knowledge or insight (like me for example where I grew up thinking my hallucinations and depression and thinking aliens were going to be standing outside my window and hearing a voice in my head trying to steal my soul and such happened to everyone and was a normal biological function until I read about Schizophrenia) and still others could be in denial about it no matter what anyone tells them either because they don't want to admit they have a serious problem like that or they're delusional.  There's probably a lot of other situations I didn't touch base on here but that's just all the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

5. Well for starters people can stop creating stigma and shame around mental illness.  Things like Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia are a just disease just like things such as Diabetes or cancer albeit of the brain.  It just can be scarier than a physical illness when your loved one isn't acting themself at all and it can make people feel like they're losing them in a far worse way.  This stigma happened because of things like the media f*cking up the image of mental illness by constantly going ape sh!t to report stories of people who are violent with mental illness and sensationalized it.  People can educate themselves on mental illness to get rid of more ignorance on the matter.  It would probably help people get into help sooner than later if the people they were close to knew to recognize some of the signs of mental illness provided they actually give a damn anyway.