rejudice No. 1: Some people believe
that mental disorders and brain affect only adults living in the rich
countries.
Anyone can be affected:
- Mental
disorders and brain affect adults, the elderly, children and adolescents;
- They affect rich and poor;
- They
are a problem for the developed countries to developing countries;
Prejudice
No. 2. Some people think that mental and neurological disorders are
imaginary:
The
mental and neurological disorders are real:
- They suffer, are debilitating, and can
shorten the life;
- It is
not a lack of will or a bad way of thinking;
- Images
of the brain to help identify anomalies.
Some people believe that you can not treat
mental disorders and brain injuries.
You can always do something for all
the mental and neurological disorders:
- There
are effective treatments used worldwide;
- You can get help from health officers
generalist and specialist;
- The family should always be involved and
support.
Prejudice
No. 4: Some people believe that mental disorders and brain are due to a
weakness of character
They are caused by
biological, psychological and social factors:
- Research has shown the existence of genetic
factors in schizophrenia, some depression and alcoholism;
- Tensions in human relationships in
childhood, adolescence and adulthood can be the cause of psychiatric
disorders;
- Social tensions, violence, war and
displacement can cause mental disturbance;
- Extreme
poverty can cause or worsen disorders.
Prejudice
No. 5: In some countries there is opposition to traditional
beliefs in science, the belief in spirits to medicine:
No belief does
utilize data of science:
- Science looks at the mechanism, how and why
not to things;
- The
drugs are used in scientific discoveries every country in the world without
exception;
- You
can follow a psychotherapy or traditional treatment or Mara boutique while
taking his medication.
: Prejudice No. 6: Some believe
that drugs make chronic illness or causing the decline in intelligence:
It
is the nature of the disease, which explains the length and severity of
symptoms:
- Some
diseases are acute and transient, others are periodic, and still others are
long-term, some contain significant squealer such as schizophrenia.
- The side effects of medications: tremor,
somnolence, weight gain are well known: you can delete or decrease.
Prejudice
No. 7. Some believe that the mentally ill can not live normally.
They
can live normally and we must put them under normal conditions:
- The
isolate or exclude may aggravate their condition;
- The
mentally ill suffer from both of their illness and contempt of others.
- They can heal and participate in social
life.
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