During the COVID-19 epidemic, not only does it test the physical health of each of us, but it also suffers from shock and pressure in our psychology. There are reports that since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, has added more than 70 million patients with depression, , 90 million patients with anxiety, and hundreds of millions of people have insomnia problems.
Our body and mind interact with each other. When the body is sick, the mind is easily trapped in negative emotions and lose the peace of the past. On the contrary, if the psychopath becomes ill and is troubled by negative emotions, our body's immune system will also be destroyed, weakening its resistance to the virus.
In order to help the public improve their psychological protection capabilities and effectively respond to the impact of the new crown epidemic on mental health, the Gansu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention organized the compilation of the " Self-help Guide for Mental Health in Anti-epidemic " column to share with everyone.
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Improve mental health awareness
Pursuit of common mental health
Everyone may encounter various mental health problems in their life. They should actively learn and understand mental health knowledge, scientifically understand the mutual influence between mental health and physical health, Maintain a positive and healthy emotions to avoid continuous negative emotions causing harm to physical health.
advocates the concept of moral cultivation, maintains the way of neutrality, and improves psychological resilience. In the treatment of physical diseases, the role of psychological factors should be paid attention to. When self-adjustment cannot be relieved, you can choose to seek psychological counseling and psychological treatment, promptly relieve emotions, and prevent psychological behavior problems and mental disorders.
Use scientific methods to relieve stress
Maintain an optimistic, cheerful and open-minded attitude towards life and set your own goals reasonably. Correctly understand the impact of major life and work incidents on people's psychology, learn basic stress relief knowledge, and learn scientific and beneficial psychological adjustment methods. Learn and use healthy stress relief methods, avoid unhealthy stress relief methods such as smoking, drinking, indulging in the Internet or gaming.
Learn to adjust your own state, find out the negative thoughts behind bad emotions, adjust according to objective reality, and reduce irrational understanding. Establish good interpersonal relationships, actively seek interpersonal support, and give appropriate talks and help. Maintain a healthy lifestyle, actively participate in social activities, and cultivate healthy interests and hobbies.
Pay attention to sleep health
Ensure sufficient sleep time every day, work, study, entertainment and rest must be carried out according to the routine of work and rest, and pay attention to daily life. Understand the adverse psychological effects of insufficient sleep and sleep problems, try to make up for lack of sleep in a timely manner, and seek medical attention in a timely manner if there is insufficient sleep. We must use scientific methods to improve sleep under professional guidance, and follow the doctor's instructions to take medicine.
Cultivate the habit of scientific exercise
Select and cultivate exercise hobbies that suit you, actively play the role of exercise in regulating emotions, and when there are mild emotional distress, exercise can be combined with exercise to promote emotional relief.
Correctly understand common emotional problems such as depression, anxiety
Depression, lack of pleasure, loss of interest, accompanied by decreased energy, decreased appetite, sleep disorder , decreased self-evaluation, pessimism and disappointment about the future, and even self-harm or suicide thoughts or behaviors, which last for more than 2 weeks, may suffer from depression disorders.
Suddenly or often inexplicably feel nervous, afraid, and fear, often accompanied by obvious physical symptoms such as palpitations, sweating, dizziness, dry mouth , shortness of breath, etc. In severe cases, there is a sense of dying and out of control. If it occurs frequently, you may suffer from anxiety disorders. One-time or short-term depression and anxiety can be relieved and eliminated through self-adjustment or psychological counseling, without excessive worry.Depression disorders and anxiety disorders can be treated with medication, psychological intervention or a combination of both.
If you have psychological behavior problems, you should seek help in time
You can seek professional help from relevant departments of the hospital, professional psychological counseling agencies and social work service agencies. We must realize that seeking help from professionals does not mean that they are sick or serious, but rather that they are responsible and capable.
Mental diseases treatment should be treated as doctor's instructions
Discussion of mental illness, and go to a mental hospital or a specialist outpatient clinic of a general hospital. After diagnosis, you should receive regular treatment in a timely manner, follow the doctor's advice to choose inpatient treatment or outpatient treatment, and actively implement the treatment plan. follow the doctor's instructions, take the medicine in full, uninterrupted, and in time and dosage. After the condition is effectively controlled, do not rush to reduce or stop the medicine. The outpatient clinic will have a follow-up visit on time, promptly and truthfully feedback the treatment situation to the doctor, and follow the doctor's guidance.
Psychiatric drugs must be used under the guidance of a doctor and must not be taken at will.
Care and understand patients with mental illness
Reduce discrimination
Learn to understand the basic knowledge of mental illness, know that mental illness can be prevented and treated, respect mental illness, and do not discriminate against patients. It is necessary to realize that after effective treatment, mental illness can be relieved and rehabilitated , and can undertake family and work functions. We must provide a supportive environment for patients with mental illness and their families and caregivers, improve patients' psychological behavioral skills, and enable them to gain a sense of self-worth.
Follow the psychological status of family members
Family members should communicate equally and respect the different psychological needs of family members. When conflicts with family members, do not use excessive speech or hurtful behavior, do not avoid indifferently, but should actively communicate and resolve them. promptly relieve bad emotions and create a family atmosphere and harmonious family relationships with mutual understanding, mutual trust, mutual support and mutual care.
