Being aware of illness is essential for improvement in mental health |
Posted: November 23, 2018 |
Professionals in mental health know the importance of being aware of mental illness that is suffered and how to get the person with mental illness is aware of it. To be aware of mental illness is to have the ability on the part of the person who suffers it to understand and accept mental illness. According to data provided to the ISSA by the ADHES Project, the lack of awareness of the disease increases relapse to 500% or more and lengthens hospital admission time by 400%. Each relapse due to lack of awareness of the mental illness that is suffered causes a deterioration in the person and has consequences in their social, family and work environment; It is therefore of utmost importance that education for the awareness of the disease occurs from the first day that the patient is stabilized. In order for the person with mental illness to be aware of their illness, they must have the following skills: 1. - Understand and know your illness. 2. - Recognize that you are sick. 3. - Want to collaborate with the psychiatrist, family or friends to facilitate the treatment and to avoid possible relapses. In contrast to these 4 points, there are a number of circumstances that prevent the person with mental illness from being aware of their disease, a fact that hinders the patient from actively participating in the therapeutic process to improve their mental health. Some of the factors that prevent being aware of the disease are: 1. - Low intellectual and cognitive ability. 2. - The lack of capacity of the person to judge in a real way the symptoms he suffers. 3. - Adolescence and youth are also factors that make people with mental illness reject or not accept their diagnosis. Indicate, finally, that it is very important that the person is aware of his illness because in this way we can share with him the consequences he has for him and those around him when he enters into a crisis in the face of the advantages that it will bring continue with the treatment that has been given.
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