Henan Daily Client Reporter He Ke Correspondent Zhang Yong
Li Sheng (pseudonym) The whole family has been fighting mental illness for more than 20 years. When he heard the news that his son had recovered well in the mental hospital, Li Sheng subconsciously straightened his back a little, and kept saying: "Thank you to the government, Zhong, Zhong, if it is better."
October 10 is World Mental Health Day . This year's publicity theme is "Create a good environment and help mental health together". In order to promote the whole society to popularize mental health knowledge, improve the awareness of mental health, enhance mental health awareness, pay attention to mental health needs, and create a mental health environment, the Mental Health Prevention and Control Institute of Zhengzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention has carried out a series of publicity through various channels to create a good atmosphere for maintaining and promoting mental health and social harmony in the city, and deeply promote the construction of Zhengzhou's social psychological service system.
Mental health problems are by no means equal to mental illness
In recent years, with the acceleration of the pace of life and the intensification of competitive pressure, the number of patients with abnormal psychological behaviors and mental disorders has increased year by year, and mental health problems have attracted more and more attention from the general public.
WHO (WHO) proposes that health is not only free from disease and not weak, it also involves three aspects: physical, psychological and social adaptation. Mental health is not just not as simple as not having mental illnesses. Zhang Baoqin, a physician at the Mental Health Prevention and Control Institute of Zhengzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, introduced: "Mental health refers to a good mental state, able to properly understand and evaluate yourself and the people and things around you, have harmonious interpersonal relationships (including family members, friends, colleagues, etc.), have stable emotions, have purposeful behaviors, are not indulgent, can cope with pressure in life, be able to study, work and live normally, and make contributions to family and society."
In the process of realizing oneself and contributing to society, individuals' mental functions may have various problems or symptoms, such as hallucinations, delusions, insomnia, depression, anxiety, mania, abnormal behaviors, and when they are more serious, they will experience extreme behaviors that endanger life safety. These symptoms combine in different ways to form various mental illnesses, and mental health problems are by no means equal to mental illness, and they cannot be equated.
Mental health services are the core work of social psychological services. According to statistics from the World Health Organization (WHO), about 1 out of every 10 people in the world have mental health problems, and this proportion will increase rapidly when major events occur.
"As an emerging national central city, Zhengzhou has developed rapidly, and people's pace of life has accelerated significantly, and the competitive pressure has continued to intensify. The behavioral problems of individual psychological and the social problems it causes have gradually become prominent. The construction of a social psychological service system is a feasible and necessary choice." Duan Daping, director of the Mental Health Prevention and Control Institute of Zhengzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said.
Mental health publicity form is heart-wrenching, and the effect is heart-wrenching
This year's World Mental Health Day publicity theme is "Creating a good environment and helping mental health together", aiming to promote the whole society to improve awareness and enhance mental health awareness through publicity activities in various ways.
Since August, Zhengzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a special publicity campaign for Mental Health Day, and has conducted extensive online publicity through publishing a series of news releases, popular science videos, online live broadcasts, posters, etc.
, planned by various counties and districts of Zhengzhou City, the series of activities "I endorse the Zhengzhou Precision Defense Work" has been actively responded and recognized by the precision defense workers and the people of various counties (cities/districts), and achieved good results.
At the same time, it also jointly carried out offline activities with many units, using weekends to enter the community, go to the people, and carry out mental health publicity and information distribution face-to-face.
"Your activity is so good. My family has always felt that my depression is idle and pretending. They don't understand and don't know how uncomfortable I feel." A mother told the disease control staff who were doing activities in the community while wiping tears from the corners of her eyes.
"I have always forgotten things recently. The symptoms are compared with the ones on the display board. It seems that I will go to the hospital as soon as possible."At the event site of Changji Garden Community, Aunt Wang, who is over 60, was looking at the display board and telling her questions to the staff.
"Who said that children are not worried, I want to take this brochure home for my mother to see. "In Xinyuan Mingjia Community, a 6th-grade owner was flipping through the exquisitely drawn promotional brochures and "complained" the staff.
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As of now, Zhengzhou's offline publicity series of mental health prevention has entered 15 large communities in Zhengzhou City, distributing more than 2,000 publicity materials, benefiting more than 5,000 people.
Is it tired? It is fake to say that it is not tired, Duan Daping said: "In order to ensure the effect, all community activities are arranged on weekends. All staff in the institute voluntarily gave up their rest time, but it can help more people and contribute to the construction of Zhengzhou's social psychological service system. Everyone feels it is worth it. "
uses footsteps to measure the "position" of precision prevention, and uses actions to help the families of patients with difficulties
is not just publicity, but the Zhengzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention and Prevention's Prevention Institute is also responsible for the management of mental health, implementation, promotion, and implementation of related projects in the city.
Duan Daping said: "Sometimes, precision prevention work treats not only a patient, but also a family. This is the responsibility and motivation of our work. "
Early in the morning of September 23, staff from the Mental Health Prevention and Control Institute of Zhengzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention drove to Xingyang . In order to help solve various problems and difficulties encountered by grassroots precision prevention personnel, they started a day's visit.
Duan Daping said that many people's understanding of mental illness patients is still stuck in specific "labels" such as mania, danger, and injury. They rarely really understand the causes of the disease behind these people, nor do they know Many mental illnesses can be effectively treated through treatment.
From the city to the county, from township to the small mountain village, the car crawled on the ridges of loess along the curved path, and waves of loess swayed behind the car.
"The car can only drive here, we can only walk the rest." Under the leadership of a panelist in charge of precision prevention in the village, Duan Daping and his colleagues walked 5 miles of mountain roads and finally arrived at the home of a patient with wrinkles on his face, looking like he was in his seventies or eighties. Li Sheng is the patient's father.
learned from the doctor that Li Sheng is actually only 65 years old this year. The reason why he looks old is because he has been taking care of two sons with mental disorders alone for more than 20 years.
The two sons' illnesses are repeated over and over, and Li Sheng is unable to go out to work. The living conditions of the family can be imagined.
Through this follow-up visit, it is composed of local village committees, township health centers, town comprehensive management offices, police stations and other relevant departments The "Caring and Assistance" group, after coordination among multiple parties, solved many practical difficulties in living and medical treatment for Li Sheng's family, and Li Sheng's family's situation has improved greatly.
issues guardian "reward instead of subsidy" subsidy, applied for mental disability subsidy, and subsidy for minimum living allowance... These effective assistance not only solves the problem of Li Sheng's daily life security, but also solves the problem of Li's brothers taking medicine.
"Now it's fine, the government has built a house for us, and my son is sick and can be reimbursed. Thank you very much to the government and experts, otherwise I really can't live my family. "When speaking, Li Sheng lowered his head, still unable to hide his inferiority and shyness on his face.
It is reported that with the steady progress of work, the discovery, treatment, follow-up, and management of patients with severe mental disorders at the grassroots level in Zhengzhou are gradually strengthening, and the responsibility for family guardianship is also gradually being implemented with the implementation of the "reward instead of subsidy" policy, and these are important parts of the construction of the social and psychological service system.
allows patients on the edge of suffering to start a normal life again
From 9 am to 5 pm, from grassroots hospital to the patient's home, from cement road to sheep intestinal path, this is just the most ordinary day for the staff of the Mental Health Prevention and Control Institute of Zhengzhou Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention on the front line of mental illness.
Duan Daping introduced that nearly 80% of people across the country have experienced insomnia, more than 70% of diseases are related to negative emotions, nearly 60% of empty-nest elderly people face psychological problems, and every five people suffer from psychological distress, so there is a long way to go to deeply promote the construction of the social psychological service system.
"Li Sheng's story is just one of the millions of families with mental illness. In the future, on the way to maintain mental health, we should continuously enhance the social influence of the city's comprehensive mental health management work and create a good atmosphere of 'mental health and social harmony' in the city." Speaking of the importance of grassroots precision prevention work, Duan Daping said that only by not slacking off and not complaining and truly checking for omissions and solving problems can mental illness patients be treated in a timely manner and their families are cared for, so that these special groups can live happily with dignity.
Finally, Zhengzhou’s front-line fine defense people expressed their thoughts: As an ordinary fine defense person, only by truly understanding, caring, helping and silent support can one patient after another who walks on the edge of pain start a normal life again!
"Make the people's sense of gain, happiness and security more fulfilling, more secure and more sustainable. This is the goal of building the community service system in Zhengzhou, and it is also the firm and ordinary original intention and belief of Zhengzhou's precision prevention people." Duan Daping said.
