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Today is World Mental Health Day , share some insights about the diagnosis of mental illness. Let's talk about what the real meaning of diagnosis is. Let's talk about what is the real meaning of diagnosis?
What is the real meaning of diagnosis?
I know there are many people suffering from bipolar, severe depression, or those suffering from mental illnesses that are more serious than these common diseases. has a very disappointed, even angry view of the diagnosis of this :
"Yes, I'm sick." Then what?
You won’t tell me that with this small white, pink, and blue pill, you can relieve my pain, right? !
Do you really understand how painful I am?
I have walked such a long way, dragging my tired body to the hospital, and hang up your number just to ask you to prescribe medicine for me? "
Others, rejected the help of drugs because of their strong fear of drugs and their strong sense of stigma :
" No! I don't eat it, I don't want these side effects! I don't want my life to rely on pills to continue. These medicines will ruin me. "
The strong anger and disappointment are hard to bear no matter how much strength a person has.
So, we will see a large number of mentally ill patients, either taking medicine numbly, no longer having hope for themselves, just live a pessimistic life in depression and pain, and their hearts are like stagnant;
On the other hand, there are also quite a lot of people because they are afraid of being labeled "mental illness" , they refuse the help of drugs, and let themselves suffer and fall in the fierce self-fight, like an hedgehog , or they stab the close people around them, or become a self-pitying Xianglin Sao, refusing to be responsible for their next life.
does not make the diagnosis The above two ways of dealing with mental illness bias and pain are fair.
In my opinion, asking doctors to label you with the "standards" printed in books or in mind experience, and then use those small pills to control your next life has nothing to do with the true meaning of the diagnosis.
Diagnosis is because of some historical and institutional reasons, and is greatly demonized by the level of mental health development.
We should actually face the positive meaning of diagnosis .
diagnosis is to let you and your family know that you are sick and you are in a "involuntary" situation, and therefore you can obtain More support and help.
Of course, I know that some people become patients precisely because their family has long-term mental illness (to some extent, there is no so-called "normality", and there is no abrupt dividing line between mental illness and normality) - it is unrealistic to expect to gain understanding and support from such families.
However, diagnosis provides at least an excellent opportunity allows these people to start to understand themselves, start paying attention to "what I went through", and then have the opportunity to start a process of self-compassion, self-understanding and support, a process of growth, healing, and integration.
So, don't bear the "shaming" anymore, and don't be superstitious. Authoritative (such as doctors), do not transfer all the responsibility for life to a "diagnosis", nor do you disdain the diagnosis or look at the diagnosis with anger.
rationally and self-compassionate (rather than self-pity) use diagnosis.
Note that only by "obtaining diagnosis" can a person get more resources to help . For example, when the help provided by the hospital cannot meet his needs, you can get more support from psychological counselors and psychiatrists.
(When the symptoms clearly affect social function, it is suspected to be a mental illness, but if there is no diagnosis and proof of hospital treatment, the psychological counselor has no authority to provide help.)
If the symptoms are a kind of "expression", what is expressing?
There is no right or wrong, good or bad - if you can view it without the concept of binary opposition .
symptoms may be more of a "expression" , because it is so intelligent, so random, so individual, and you can also regard it as a "poetic expression" if you want.
is a person's injury and frustrated experience through a body biochemistry expression ;
is a shout , reminds us, how strongly I have been suppressing and ignoring my own feelings;
is a "expression of love" , "loyalty of cells" :
Although we may feel that we still resent someone in the family and cannot reconcile, at the physical and subconscious level, we have always loved our family and family deeply, so that we need to present these energy that have been suppressed and blocked by elders or by a certain generation in our body. The topic of using ourselves to reproduce the family is precisely because of our love as a soul - in order to guide healing;
is the confession of the twelve officials of (the perspective of the five elements needles).
We need to understand and explore what these symptoms are expressing. Don’t be superstitious about authority, only we have the final right to explain.
At the same time, open up your spiritual dimensions, read more spiritual materials, and learn to trust yourself.
You must always remember that ourselves are the key to treatment .
Everything else, including therapists, counselors, drugs - if they work, they are just support and help for treatment.
Seth said you can heal yourself. Infiltrate this belief deeply into your inner thoughts, appreciate and appreciate the magic of those "natural remedies".
Finally, let’s share a little bit about existence- humanistic psychologist Professor Yalong’s view on “diagnosis” . It should be noted that these views are mainly from the perspective of therapists, reminding practitioners not to pay too much attention to diagnosis and superstitious diagnosis, which is also a warning to ordinary people and patients, but this is not to say that diagnosis is unnecessary.
does not need to be superstitious about "diagnosis"
(Professor Yalong's view on diagnosis)
" treatment is a gradual and in-depth process . Therapist should try his best to understand the patient in a comprehensive and in-depth manner.
diagnosis may limit the therapist's perspective and affect the therapist's ability to treat the patient as a human being .
diagnosis may also become a self-realization language . When a therapist treats the patient as "borderline" or "hysterical" and establishes a relationship with him (or her), it may promote and promote the patient to show these corresponding traits.
In DSM, the category reliability of personality disorder is very low.
Most therapists will notice that diagnosis after the first interview is more knowledgeable about the patient than after ten interviews. The diagnosis is easier to diagnose. Isn’t this a very strange science?
If we take the DSM diagnostic system too seriously, we will inevitably damage human , and damage the spontaneity, creativity and uncertainty of treatment itself.
Of course, is in severe cases with physiological factors, such as schizophrenia , bipolar disorder , emotional disorder, Temporal lobe epilepsy , drug toxicity and physical or brain diseases caused by toxic substances, degeneration factors or infectious substances, For these diseases, diagnosis undoubtedly plays a key role in treatment considerations. However, in daily psychological treatment, diagnosis often plays a counter-effect for patients with milder problems. "
