Chinanews client, Beijing, October 10 (Lang Lang) often feel unhappy, noticeably less interested in all activities, insomnia or too much sleep... If you have the above symptoms, please stop your busy hands and take care of yourself.
Because your "inner heart" may be sick.
October 10 is World Mental Health Day, which is a special day that calls on human beings to pay attention to their mental and psychological health.
Today, we might as well have a conversation with our own heart-how are you?
Data map: Nanjing volunteers "seeking hugs" on the streets, calling for care for patients with depression.
Photo by Yang Bo
Insomnia, anxiety, self-denial? You may be sick
To understand the concept of "mental health", we must first look at a set of distressing data.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) statistics, about 1 billion people worldwide are suffering from mental disorders, and one person loses his life by suicide every 40 seconds.
Research results show that after excluding dementia, the prevalence of six major types of mental disorders in China (mood disorders, anxiety disorders, alcohol/drug use disorders, schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, eating disorders, impulse control disorders) reached 9.3 %.
For a long time, many people's cognition of mental illness has remained at the level of severe illness such as schizophrenia, and they have not only ignored related symptoms and patients, but even discriminated against them.
Statistics show that in recent years, the prevalence of mental disorders in China has shown an overall upward trend, with the total number of people suffering from mental disorders exceeding 100 million.
Among them, there are nearly 16 million patients with severe mental illness, and the prevalence of schizophrenia is close to 1% of the total population.
"In the past 20 years, the prevalence of severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia has not changed much. However, the prevalence of mild mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression has increased significantly." Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University Sixth Hospital Dean Lu Lin once told the media.
Why do so many people suffer from mild mental illness?
According to expert analysis, on the one hand, the profound changes in lifestyle brought about by the acceleration of the social development process have increased the risk of mental and psychological problems; on the other hand, the public’s awareness of mental illnesses has increased, and they have caused such diseases to go to hospitals. It is also easier to find.
Especially this year, an online survey involving tens of thousands of people across the country showed that the mental and psychological problems of the public during the new crown pneumonia epidemic have become prominent, and about 30% of the interviewed people have symptoms of depression, anxiety, insomnia and acute stress.
As far as the sick group is concerned, teenagers, women and the elderly are the three groups that are more prone to psychological problems.
Wang Shaoli, deputy dean of Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, once introduced that during adolescence, with the rapid development of body, self-awareness and personality, adolescents face multiple pressures and are prone to various psychological, emotional and behavioral problems; women have more delicate emotions and worries. Relatively more; as the body organs age in the elderly, various diseases appear one after another, and various mental and psychological disorders are more likely to occur.
Therefore, it is necessary to increase the degree of attention to the mental health of the above three categories of people.
Data map: Hunan Provincial Psychiatric Center has opened a new coronary pneumonia psychological counseling service nationwide.
Photo by Fu Jingyi
Social acceptance of mental illness is gradually increasing
People's mental health has a direct impact on work and life.
At present, mental illness has become a serious and costly global public health problem, affecting people of different ages, different cultures, and different socioeconomic status.
As people pay more and more attention to mental health issues, the people's negative attitudes towards patients with mental illness have also declined.
Li Wentian, director of the clinical psychology department of Wuhan Mental Health Center, told the media that the public has a high level of awareness, acceptance and tolerance of mental illness, and even some teenagers will actively seek regular psychological counseling services.
This change is also evident from the survey data of Shanghai.
The results of the fourth public mental health awareness survey published in Shanghai in 2019 showed that the basic mental health knowledge of Shanghai citizens has steadily increased, which has increased to 76.7%, and people’s prejudice and discrimination against patients with mental illness have also begun to change, with negative attitudes. The proportion dropped to 39%.
At the same time, people's correct recognition rate of anxiety disorders has increased.
However, changing attitudes and behaviors is far more difficult than acquiring knowledge.
People's attitudes towards patients with mental illness have not improved due to the increase in related knowledge and awareness, and the prejudice that people with related illnesses are "poor" and "dangerous" still exists.
"Mental diseases, like hypertension, are preventable and controllable, so you don't need to worry too much." Lu Lin said that if early detection and treatment can be achieved, more than 70% of early mental illness patients can be cured.
Experts remind that we must learn to relieve stress, proper physical exercise, regular work and rest and sleep. Some mild anxiety, insomnia, depression and other mental illnesses can be solved by rest and relaxation.
But if it obviously affects your life and rest and causes a lot of pain to yourself, you need to see a specialist in the hospital for treatment.
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Cracking the misunderstanding: "gaming disorder" is also a disease
Although people's awareness of mental health is gradually increasing, there are still some misunderstandings about the types and causes of diseases.
For example, "gaming disorder" is actually a disease.
In 2019, "gaming disorder" was included by the World Health Assembly as "disorders caused by addictive behaviors", becoming a new mental illness.
In China, the incidence of "gaming disorder" is gradually increasing, but many parents do not know enough about it and use methods such as beating and scolding to intervene.
"Disciplinary, beating and scolding not only cannot cure gaming disorder, but will cause more serious harm to the patient." Lu Lin said that for many mental diseases such as gaming disorder, the onset is due to the interaction of social factors, family factors, and individual qualities. As a result, medical treatment alone is not enough. The whole society must act together to advance the prevention threshold.
In addition, people also have some misunderstandings regarding the cause of the disease.
A survey in Shanghai shows that most people believe that the schizophrenia and mania in the cases are caused by the patients’ “work pressure” or “ideological problems”; a small proportion of people realize that mental illness is a type of existence. Diseases based on biology and genetics.
Data map: Psychological counselor talking with patients.
Photo by Lu Ming
"Inner" is sick, who should I turn to for help?
If the body is sick, you can get an injection and take medicine; how to treat the "inner" sickness?
"The psychological assistance hotline is a feasible, convenient, timely and privacy-protecting method, and it is also an internationally accepted technology to protect the mental health of the public." Yang Fude, president of Beijing Huilongguan Hospital, once told the media.
According to data released by the Healthy China Action Promotion Committee in 2019, medical and health institutions across the country have set up about 53 psychological assistance hotlines, covering 51 cities across the country.
In 2018, there were more than 600,000 calls for help from the psychological assistance hotline nationwide.
In addition to the psychological assistance hotline, psychiatric hospitals, specialist outpatient clinics of general hospitals, social-oriented psychological consultation platforms of the education system, and qualified mental health service organizations can all provide assistance.
In addition, at the macro level, the country's emphasis on mental health is also increasing.
The "Healthy China Action (2019-2030)" released in 2019 proposes that by 2022 and 2030, the mental health literacy level of residents should be raised to 20% and 30%.
On September 11 this year, the National Health Commission also issued the "Working Plan for Exploring Special Services for the Prevention and Treatment of Depression". The plan clearly called on the entire society to raise public awareness and understanding of depression, promote disease screening, assessment, and strengthen the prevention and treatment of depression. Population disease intervention.
The plan also proposes that various high schools and colleges and universities should include depression screening in the content of student health examinations.
If you feel good, it will be sunny.
When you are in depression or anxiety, you might as well stop and tell yourself: "I just caught an emotional cold, and I am suffering now, but it will be better if I treat it." (End)