Overview:
Mental health treatment talks about the use of different medical procedures, both orthodox and non-orthodox processes to provide medical solution to the patient with psychological or emotional challenges.
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Mental health treatment is very important at every stage of life, ranging from childhood, adulthood or even adolescence stage.
It’s important to remember that a person’s mental health can change over time, depending on some factors.
When the demands placed on a person exceed their resources and coping abilities, their mental health could be impacted.
For example, if someone is working long hours, caring for a relative, or experiencing economic hardship, they may experience poor mental health. Let’s look at the treatment procedures of mental health
Mental health treatment and medications
The treatment of mental health problems, involves different stages depending on the kind of mental difficulties faced by the patient.
Many individual diagnosed with mental illness receives recovery through individual or group mental treatment.
Let’s look at the most used classes of prescription psychiatric medications include:
a. Antidepressants. Antidepressants are used to treat depression, anxiety and sometimes other conditions.
They can help improve symptoms such as sadness, hopelessness, lack of energy, difficulty concentrating and lack of interest in activities. Antidepressants are not addictive and do not cause dependency.
b. Anti-anxiety medications. These drugs are used to treat anxiety disorders, such as generalized anxiety disorder or panic disorder. They may also help reduce agitation and insomnia.
Long-term anti-anxiety drugs typically are antidepressants that also work for anxiety. Fast-acting anti-anxiety drugs help with short-term relief, but they also have the potential to cause dependency, so ideally they’d be used short term.
b. Mood-stabilizing medications. Mood stabilizers are most commonly used to treat bipolar disorders, which involves alternating episodes of mania and depression. Sometimes mood stabilizers are used with antidepressants to treat depression.
c. Antipsychotic medications. Antipsychotic drugs are typically used to treat psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia. Antipsychotic medications may also be used to treat bipolar disorders or used with antidepressants to treat depression.
Case Management
Case management looks at planning, organizing and preparing services for an individual through the help of a case manager. A case manager can help coordinate, assess, plan, and implement a number of strategies to facilitate patient recovery.
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy, also called talk therapy, involves talking about your condition and related issues with a mental health professional.
During psychotherapy, you learn about your condition and your moods, feelings, thoughts and behavior. With the insights and knowledge you gain, you can learn coping and stress management skills.
There are many types of psychotherapy, each with its own approach to improving your mental well-being.
Psychotherapy often can be successfully completed in a few months, but in some cases, long-term treatment may be needed. It can take place one-on-one, in a group or with family members.
When choosing a therapist, you should feel comfortable and be confident that he or she is capable of listening and hearing what you have to say.
Also, it’s important that your therapist understands the life journey that has helped shape who you are and how you live in the world.
Brain-stimulation treatments
Brain-stimulation treatments are sometimes used for depression and other mental health disorders. They’re generally reserved for situations in which medications and psychotherapy haven’t worked.
They include electroconvulsive therapy, repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation and vagus nerve stimulation.
Make sure you understand all the risks and benefits of any recommended treatment.
Hospital and residential treatment programs
Sometimes mental illness becomes so severe that you need care in a psychiatric hospital. This is generally recommended when you can’t care for yourself properly or when you’re in immediate danger of harming yourself or someone else.
Options include 24-hour inpatient care, partial or day hospitalization, or residential treatment, which offers a temporary supportive place to live. Another option may be intensive outpatient treatment.
Substance misuse treatment
Problems with substance use commonly occur along with mental illness. Often it interferes with treatment and worsens mental illness. If you can’t stop using drugs or alcohol on your own, you need treatment. Talk to your doctor about treatment options. We shall be discussing the major causes of mental health
Causes of mental health
There are two major factors that affect mental health and we shall be discussing them one after the other.
1. Predisposing factors
2. Precipitating factors
Predisposing factors
These talks about some physical constitutions that can result to mental problems. For example: height, body mass, chromosomal alteration like Alzheimer’s disease which is the dementia disease which has to do with gradual loss of memory.
faulty genes : This disease is caused by old age, it occurs inform of memory loss.
Precipitating factors
Some physical factors like trauma, accidental environmental stress, substance use, smoking, malnutrition can cause mental health.
Other factors like
psychological issues like heartbreak, depression, divorce of loved one, death of loved one, loss of valuable property or even money can cause mental problems. Also, some socio-economical factors like religious, cultural and political issues is among the major causes of mental health.
Mental health terminologies
The following are the terminologies associated with mental health treatment.
a. Aphonia: Loss of voice
b. Aggression: Feeling of anger which may likely lead to violence. It is a forceful goal directed behavior resulting to confrontation or attack.
C. Hallucination: This has to do with a false sensory perceptions with an external stimuli
d. Illusion: False perceptions with an external stimuli.
e. Delusion: It is a false filled belief that is not in accordance with religious beliefs.
f. Aculalia: It is a term that refers to meaningless and incomprehensible from the patient.
Let’s show you the easiest way to identify mentally healthy person
The following are the characteristics of mentally healthy individual.
a. A mentally healthy person dresses modestly
b. A mentally healthy person forgives easily with holding any grudges
c. A mentally healthy person plans and accomplishes his plan with goal and result
d. He appreciate , acknowledge a supreme being in his life.
e. He builds and maintain good relationships with people.
f. They have little or zero violence or aggression behavior.
g. Eats and sleeps normal
h. They think rationally
i. He’s emotional suitable
J. They acknowledge there faults and apologize as quickly as possible.
k. They are free from violence and aggression
l. They contribute meaningfully to wellbeing of others
M. They are optimistic and pessimistic
Assessment of mental status of individual and family
For mental health treatment, mental status assessment is very important to assist in making the right medical care.
Mental status assessment: is the gathering of correct information about the mental state of a client which is very important to help bring a proper care plan.
Component considered in mental status assessment
1. Appearance: It encompasses dressing well, hygiene hair and texture, chronological age etc.
2. Motor activities: This comprises all forms of abnormal movements, “Mannerisms”- repeated movement that seems to have some significance functions.
3. Negativism: The act of doing opposite of what is agreed on.
4. Echopresia: Imitation of someone’s movement automatically in an abnormal ways.
5. Ambitendent: alternation between opposite movement
6. Waxy flexibility: This involves a condition where a patient with resistance allows his limbs to be moved and maintained the position regardless of the discomfort or awkwardness.
7. Tic: This involves irregular repeated movement that seems to have some significant functions
Finally
Majority of people who are diagnosed with mental illness, receives energy and recovery through involving in constant treatment. So many treatment options has been made available, and each patient accepts the one that works him/her.
We have earlier stated that world mental health treatment talks about the use of different medical processes to carve out solution to group or individual with psychological or emotional challenges.