• Madrid Dr. Noelia de Mingo arrested for stabbing a cashier and a supermarket owner in El Molar

The tragic event that Noelia de Mingo has starred requires once again to show that mental health problems require a sensitivity that removes the social stigma they cause from them. "It is a tremendous misfortune, for the image of Psychiatry and mental illnesses.

We are facing an exceptional event, it is not normal,

" says Jerónimo Saiz, Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alcalá de Henares Madrid and patron of the Foundation Spanish of Psychiatry and Mental Health.

Saiz recalls that schizophrenia is a mental illness that has a prevalence in our country of 1% and that "it is possible to cure and control", and stresses that "

we are not facing a fact that occurs frequently in this type of pathologies

" . The psychiatrist recalls that Noelia de Mingo is a doctor, has already served his sentence and has been rehabilitated, "

but sometimes there are illnesses that cannot be cured

."

In the case of schizophrenia, as collected by the Spanish Psychiatry Society (SEP), it is a mental illness that lasts a lifetime. "With treatment, any disease can be controlled. The fact that this has happened is due to a specific event, we still do not know the trigger," recalls Sáiz. The goal of treatment is to help the person lead as normal a life as possible. At first, treatment is primarily focused on eliminating symptoms. For the best result, everyone involved, including the affected person, family, psychiatric team, teachers and social services, need to work together from the start. "

In the case at hand, I know that it has been well attended and the resources have been adequate,

" emphasizes the psychiatrist.

People who suffer from schizophrenia "many times are not aware that they suffer from the disease, it is difficult for them to collaborate in the treatments. But, she worked a lot in their favor, as did her family. It

just happened and it will have to be seen why,

" she says Sáiz. As stated in the SEP, sometimes a small group of people are then able to stop taking the medication without the disease getting worse. Most, however, need maintenance medication indefinitely to prevent relapse.

Before being able to make an even clinical judgment, "you have to know in what circumstances he was, if he was following the treatment or not, and at what point in his illness".

Saiz insists that "

how extraordinary this fact seems to us as a society does not seem to us about other types of criminal events

, such as cases of gender-based violence or other types of dramatic circumstances in which there is violence and blood. Therefore, there is than knowing how to focus and not relate mental illness and violence in a simplistic way ".

That is why he remembers that, in mental illnesses, "as in other types of pathologies we can run into unpredictable and absurd events, such as this tragic event".

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