Patients refuse to take medication, which is the most common and headache of all psychiatric treatments.
For mental illnesses, especially those with severe schizophrenia , due to delusions, hallucinations and other reasons, they not only think that they are not sick, but they often think that their family members, doctors and nurses are asking him to take poison and are trying to harm him.
Drugs can help patients control their condition, improve symptoms, and improve quality of life.
So how can patients not be so resistant to taking medication? First of all, we need to understand the reasons why the patient refuses to take medicine.
Reason 1. Thinking that you are not sick and don’t need treatment
In the early stages of the disease, some patients can still realize that their mental state is different from before, and they will feel strange. Some patients may also come to the hospital for treatment.
When the condition develops severely, the patient completely refuses to admit that he is sick and resolutely refuses to seek medical treatment and take medicine.
Reason 2: Thinking that your illness has been cured and you don’t need to take medicine
Some schizophrenia patients usually have symptoms relieved after treatment, and they think that their illness has been cured. They even think that what they had not been a disease before is not a disease and do not have to continue taking medicine.
However, in fact, the treatment of schizophrenia requires a long period of consolidation and maintenance treatment. It does not mean that if the symptoms are relieved and the self-feeling is good, you can stop the medication.
Reason 3: Undesirable reactions after taking the medicine
is too worried about the side effects of the medicine. Some families think that "the medicine is three parts poisonous". They are worried that eating it will hurt the body. When the condition is stable, they stop the medicine without authorization, causing the recurrence of the disease;
or because they are afraid of adverse reactions of the medicine, the family uses methods that lack scientific basis to treat it, delaying the disease;
In addition, some patients say that their brains become stupid after taking the medicine, which makes the patient reject the medicine. This is because some drugs will have slight sedation and side effects of drowsiness and , and patients will get sleepy and want to sleep after taking it.
Reason 4: Symptoms appear, fearing that others know that they have mental illness
Although mental health is gradually becoming popular among the people, the phenomenon of mental illnesses in society is still common in society.
Between neighbors, if you have a mentally ill person at home, your neighbor will usually stay away from him and remind your children: "Go away from him and stay away, and he will beat people when he gets sick!"
In social occasions, mentally ill people will also face many difficulties in choosing friends and getting married. Even medical staff working in psychiatric departments are often said: "After staying in that environment for a long time, do you get mentally ill?"
In terms of career choice, mentally ill patients are even more coldly treated, and many people have been "optimized" and laid off. These indifference to mental patients makes them feel shame and refuse to take medicine, which invisibly increases the risk of recurrence.
Reason 5: It’s troublesome to take medicine for a long time
Because you need to take medicine every day, it causes certain inconvenience to life. It is easy to miss taking medicine during long-term medication. Some patients think it’s troublesome, so they simply don’t take it, which causes the recurrence of mental illness. Patients like
have insufficient understanding of the serious consequences of recurrence and have a fluke mentality, thinking that it will not have any effect on not taking medicine occasionally.
Reason 6. Economic reasons and psychological burden are too large
There is also part of the reason, which is the economic reasons of the families of mental patients. The treatment of the disease has caused a great burden on the family's economy and the psychology of the family.
Schizophrenia is a chronic disease that requires long-term treatment and may even be hospitalized for severe treatment. Even when the patient is sick, he or she needs special care, which increases the financial burden on the family.
Therefore, many patients will only be sent to the hospital for their families during the onset of the disease, or to save money, they will go to some small hospitals for treatment. Because the doctor's unprofessionality may lead to misdiagnosis of the patient, and the condition not only does not relieve the disease but becomes more serious.
There are many reasons why schizophrenia patients are unwilling to take medicine. Only by finding out the reasons and solving them one by one. Through scientific treatment, most patients with mental illness can restore normal social functions, reintegrate into society, and embrace a new life.
