Holistic Approach to Mental Illness Therapy
Mental illness once occupied the harsh frontier of medicine. In the past, mental health patients were often treated with disregard for their whole person. Physicians went after their symptoms, hoping to extinguish their symptoms with radical therapies and strong drugs. Studies show that current mental health patients are still receiving substandard care. Individuals with mental illness are much more vulnerable to developing health problems than the general population. In fact, a recent UK study found that mental health patients were five times more likely to develop diabetes, and twice the risk of developing cardiovascular disease, than the general population. Mental health patients often lack lifestyle management advice and training, as well as the social interaction that is key to maintaining good health.
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Topic: Mental Illness
Dealing with a Mental Illness Diagnosis
Dealing with family, neighbors, friends, and employers can often be hard and embarrassing and just as hard as dealing with the diagnose itself. If you had to be hospitalized or did some embarrassing things prior to getting diagnosed and treated it can feel worse. You are probable shocked by the whole thought of having an illness. A horde of emotions could be plaguing you at this time like confusion, sadness, anxiety, and even fear. This not uncommon and can take some time to get used to. In the past there have been a lot of negative feelings towards mental illness, most of them unfounded and wrong to say the least. There have been many findings in the last few decades and realizing that mental illness is just like any other illness. The only difference is that it affects the brain. Since the brain controls the rest of the body it isn’t any wonder why people have so many side effects. The person who has this type of illness did not ask for it or caused it. Just like diabetes, these things happen.
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Topic: Mental Illness
