Education and Mental Health
When a person is suffering from mental health issues, then the
best source of support and help is found in the educational
system. Many people that suffer from mental illness are often in
the stone ages and do not realize what is available to them.
They were often misinformed while growing up, and since
education is always advancing and changing, it is helpful to
know what is going on.
Of course, if you have a mental illness you will need to see a
therapist. However if you are learning this increases your
chances of finding hope and avoid being misinformed by someone
that is not qualified, or under qualified. Professionals around
the world are constantly searching for answers to the many
problems we face today in mental health. The problem is everyone
has an answer and most times no one agrees. They my find an
answer to the problem, turn around, and slaughter by analyzing
the source to death.
Then we have another problem, simply because we have dozens of
diagnosis, including schizophrenia, bipolar, depression, trauma,
a variety of disorders and so forth. The different diagnoses are
diseases of the mind, disorders of the mind, and or chemical and
biological interruptions. To get help we must know what we are
dealing with, rather than trusting in others to tell us what is
wrong. If we seek out information regarding mental health we
might even find an answer to our own problem. We can then inform
the professional and assist them with finding a solution to the
many problems we face.
Mental health is complicated simply because we are dealing with
the mind. The mind is tricky and leaves us know room for playing
around with illness. Counseling is nothing more than a common
sense strategy laced with education. The professionals are
learning constantly new understandings while applying them to
the older versions. Somewhere in the middle is an answer and it
is often overlooked when a professional will treat several
patients during a week and sometimes try to treat each person
the same if they have the same diagnose. This is a problem area
since are all different in our way, including people with mental
illnesses.
For example, a counselor may treat two individuals both with
schizophrenia. The counselor may use the same tactics with both
patients and medications for treating the patient. One patient
may find results and the other patient may complain that the
treatment is not working. Why is this happening? Well, it is
obvious that one patient may have a different level of
schizophrenia, and a different background. Some medications work
well with one patient while it may not work at all or work
minimal with other patients.
The solution then is reevaluating the problem and going over
the steps taking to treat the patient and modifying them
according to the patients needs. It is important to recognize a
problem to find a method suitable for treating the problem. It
is also important to reconcile with the source within. Meaning
if a patient has guilt it is probably because he or she did
something that may or may have not been wrong. For example, if a
parent taught the child that visiting their friends is wrong
(Schizophrenias will often discourage a child from going to
other people's home due to the paranoid) and the patient (behind
the parents back) went to visit a friend.
The patient obviously needs to recognize that he or she did
nothing wrong, rather he or she needs to reconcile with self. In
this case, the patient will also need to be re-taught to learn
right and wrong. The patient needs to find a resolve. After you
have helped the patient overcome this option, it is best to
re-teach with material rather than words.
Simply put, if the patient has a varied of resources to choose
from he or she has the ability to come to their own
understanding of what is right or what is wrong. Education is
essential for reproving, reforming and instructing a person to
the right course in life. Words are also important, since if you
do not understand what is said, it is often because of lack of
education.