Mental Illness : Warnings and signs How to cope ?

Mental illness is often taken careless by the people . For some or other reason the symptoms may be seemingly to appear in a person and compromise themselves . As most of the symptoms of mental illness is experienced by almost all of us now and then , so we completely ignore that it is usual occurrence .

If the symptoms occurs for a long time or prolonged time then , you must take care to consult with a psychologist or psychiatrist .

A mental illness is a disease that causes mild to severe disturbances in thought and/or behaviour, resulting in an inability to cope with life’s ordinary demands and routines.

It is found that there are 200 classified forms of mental illness . Among these , the major mental illness are depression , schizophrenia and anxiety disorder. Mental illness causes changes in behaviour , mood , personality , personal habits and social disorder.

Mental Health may be due to excessive stress because of a bad situation or series of events or biological factor or environmental factor or chemical imbalance in the brain or genetic factor . Like cancer , diabetes , heart disease mental illness can be both physical and emotional .

Symptoms of the Mental Disorder

The following are the symptoms and signs that if you or your loved one is facing must hurry up to consult a doctor immediately .

It is especially important to pay attention to sudden changes in thoughts and behaviours. If you have combination of these symptoms not just any one change, indicates a problem that should be assessed.

Symptoms can be categorized according to the age groups of the people :

•     In Adults, Young Adults and Adolescents

   

•     In Older Children and Preadolescents

   

•     In Younger Children

Adults , Young adults and Adolescents

• Confused thinking

• Prolonged depression (sadness or irritability)

   

• Feelings of extreme highs and lows

   

• Excessive fears, worries and anxieties

   

• Social withdrawal

   

• Dramatic changes in eating or sleeping habits

   

• Strong feelings of anger

   

• Strange thoughts (delusions)

   

• Seeing or hearing things that aren't there (hallucinations)

   

• Growing inability to cope with daily problems and activities

   

• Suicidal thoughts

   

• Numerous unexplained physical ailments

   

• Substance use

 

   

In Older Children and Preadolescents :

• Substance use

   

• Inability to cope with problems and daily activities

   

• Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits

   

• Excessive complaints of physical ailments

   

• Changes in ability to manage responsibilities - at home and/or at school

   

• Defiance of authority, truancy, theft, and/or vandalism

   

• Intense fear

   

• Prolonged negative mood, often accompanied by poor appetite or thoughts of death

   

• Frequent outbursts of anger
  
  

In Younger Children:

• Changes in school performance

   

• Poor grades despite strong efforts

   

• Changes in sleeping and/or eating habits

   

• Excessive worry or anxiety (i.e. refusing to go to bed or school)

   

• Hyperactivity

   

• Persistent nightmares

• Persistent disobedience or aggression

   

• Frequent temper tantrums

How to cope day to day

Accept your feelings :

You have to accept that your behaviour is abnormal and need to go for counselling get the best treatment and recover as soon as possible. Only when you accept and talk with your closed one about your problems you could find a solution to solve your mental illness.

Handling unusual behaviour :

Even you or your loved one show an unusual behaviour you must analyse initially why there is a sudden change in the behaviour of the person. After self -examine test along with the doctor advice you must be able to handle the situation . This way you can cope with the mental illness.

Getting help from the support Network:

There are many social forums and support groups online . You can chat or ask queries to the forums , so that you will get suggestions from similar groups and people.

Taking time out :

Withdraw work for the two days and spend going to outside visiting a friends , relatives place . This can relax you from the stress and that you can cope up with mental illness easily . Keep your mind always in a relaxed and comfortable.

How to self examine Paranoid Disorder

Paranoid Personality Disorder is one among the eccentric personality disorder. Eccentric personality disorder is the abnormal behaviour of the person may seem unnatural or unusual to others.

PPD affected people suspect or mistrust others and believe that they will do harm to them . They mistrust the behaviours of the others . A person with PPD feels hostile and anger towards other

This is the condition where they are reluctant to easy going with others , cannot bear criticism , and finding demeaning the other's viewpoint.

Often people with PPD gets angry very quickly because they mistrust others they couldn't take the behaviour of the others.

How PPD is affected / Causes of PPD :

The Paranoid Personality Disorder cause is yet unknown but with signs and symptoms researchers have joggled some of the reasons for PPD (Paranoid Personality Disorder) in a person. They believe that it is the combination of biological and environmental factors can lead to PPD (Paranoid Personality Disorder).

What are the symptoms of Paranoid Personality Disorder

Paranoid Personality Disorder (PPD) do not accept that their point of view is wrong and they believe that their suspicion is true even they won't accept that their thought is different.

Suspects, without sufficient basis, that others are exploiting, harming, or deceiving him or her

• Is preoccupied with unjustified doubts about the loyalty or trust     worthiness of friends or associates.

   

• Is reluctant to confide in others because of unwarranted fear the     information will be used maliciously against him or her

   

• Reads hidden demeaning or threatening meanings into remarks or events

• Persistently bears grudges (i.e., is unforgiving of insults, injuries, or     slights)

   

• Perceives attacks on his or her character or reputation that are not apparent to others, and is quick to react angrily or to counterattack

   

• Has recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding fidelity of spouse or sexual partner.

Paranoid personality disorder generally goes undiagnosed when other psychotic disorder , such as schizophrenia or a bipolar disorder or narcissism or depressive disorder is already being diagnosed.

PPD can be caused by biological or environmental factor . Almost all age groups of people is affected by the PPD . If it exists in the childhood stage then it is known after 1 year . Most of the time at 40's and 50's age only the PPD is seem to be more.

How PPD is diagnosed ?

Paranoid personality disorder are typically diagnosed by a trained mental health professional, such as a psychologist or psychiatrist. While you can initially consult a family physician about this problem, they should refer you to a mental health professional for diagnosis and treatment.

Many people with paranoid personality disorder don’t seek out treatment. People with personality disorders, in general, do not often seek out treatment until the disorder starts to significantly interfere or otherwise impact a person’s life. This most often happens when a person’s coping resources are stretched too thin to deal with stress or other life events.

A diagnosis for paranoid personality disorder is made by a mental health professional comparing your symptoms and life history with those listed here. They will make a determination whether your symptoms meet the criteria necessary for a personality disorder diagnosis.

PPD treatment can be very successful. But people with PPD are reluctant to take up the treatment . They feel they are right in their own way . Some of the methods of treatment:

Talk therapy or psychotherapy is the best treatment for PPD . This method will

• help individual how to cope with the disorder.

   

• Learn how to cope with other in a social situation

   

• reduce the level of mistrusting others.

   

Medication includes :

Antidepressant.

benzodiazepines.

antipsychotics.

Myths and Reality on Eating Disorder

Myths and Facts About Eating Disorder :

 

Often people think eating disorder is virtual . Most of the time people getting this disorder states out some other reason for it . They might feel guilt to consult a doctor .

Below are some of the myth and real fact about Eating disorder.

Myth : By seeing the person you must not judge that he/she has eating disorder

Facts : You must not determine the person by looking his outer appearance . Often media and people does not recognize the eating disorder affected person correctly . Individuals with eating disorder often comes in different shapes and size. It is a false perspective that anorexia is only the major symptom of eating disorder and people with that symptom is always underweight . But person other symptoms like bulimia , binge eating and OSFED can be underweight , normal weight , overweight or obese and often fluctuate in weight . Even athletes who appear to be normal and fit may also undergo a eating disorder . So , eating disorder should not be misjudged by the people shape and size .

Myth : Anorexia is the only threatening eating disorder

Facts : Eating disorder is the only cause of the anorexia. Anorexia is an internal fear of the people that they may put overweight so they have obsessive desire for reducing weight and in turn they reduce in taking of food . There are other threatening disorder that increase the mortality rate . It is a fact that eating disorder is the severe mental illness that involves more mortality rates .

While anorexia has 4% of the mortality rate , the other symptoms like bulimia and EDNOS that were similar to and higher than anorexia. EDNOS with 5.2 % and bulimia with 3.9% mortality rate .

Myth : Recovery is not possible in eating disorder

Facts : As we say nothing is impossible when we try with full-fledged effort. Recovery with the best possible treatment and remedial measure , the eating disorder can be completely curable. The recovery could take months or even years to eventually cure from the eating disorder . But should not be left untreated otherwise your may have adverse effect even person face death when symptoms are severe.

Myth : Eating disorder is due to controlling parents and dysfunctional families .

Facts : It is often that parents blame individual for the eating disorder . But the real fact is that 80% of eating disorder is due to genetic factors . If a parent is affected with eating disorder there is chance that child may also affected with eating syndrome.

Myth : Purging is the effective way to lose weight

Facts: Purging does not cause weight loss or prevent weight gain . Even after vomiting the food some parts of the ingested food stays in the body . Laxatives actually not help for the weight loss , but stimulated fluid loss in the body resulting in dehydration problem . Purging can affect the metabolism as a result it accelerates the weight gain so it is a false viewpoint that it is the effective way to lose weight.

Myth : Men don't get Eating disorder

Facts : Men don't get eating disorder is a false perspective . Out of 10 at least 1 men are affected by eating disorder. They are often diagnosed with binge eating syndrome .In the past 10 years , the rate of people affected with eating disorder is increasing .

Foods High in Iron for Anaemia

               

Anaemia that occurs due to iron deficiency in the body . Insufficient intake of Iron rich foods leads to Anaemia. Iron deficiency anaemia is the common type of anaemia that can be found in all age groups . This type of anaemia may also cause hypothyroid problem .

If a patient’s diet lacks in iron , then the patient would also be recommended to include high iron foods to overcome Anaemia Problem .

List of Some Foods that are rich with Iron:

Apricot • Asparagus • Baked potato • Barley Beef liver • Beet greens • Beet root •

Broccoli • Cantaloupe • Carrots • Cashews • Chicken liver • Clams • Cooked beans •

Non-GMO Corn • Dates • Eggs • Figs • Grapefruit • Green beans • Green peas • Kale

• Mussels • Oatmeal • Orange • Orange juice • Oysters • Peas • Peanut butter • Prune

juice • Pumpkin • Pumpkin seeds • Raisins • Sardines • Sea vegetables • Shrimp •

Spinach • Sprouts • Strawberries • Sweet potatoes • Tomato • Tomato juice • Tuna •

Turkey • Turnip greens • Watermelon • Whole-grain bread

Some Facts about Iron :

Iron is required for the haemoglobin content in the body . As Haemoglobin content is

essential for proper metabolism in the body , for the haemoglobin production iron is significant content .

Iron will boost liver function in the body .

Increases oxygen supply in the body .

Iron manages the free radicals deposition in the body.

Symptoms of Iron Deficiency Anaemia :

Fatigue : Feel of extreme tiered . Fatigue is the Classic Symptom of Iron Deficiency Anaemia.

Dizziness : Feeling sleepy throughout a day.

Headache : Feeling head pain often.

Cognitive problems : Reduced Memory Function

Abnormal irritability : Experience of haphazard irritation problem .

Cold hands and feet : Hands are always wet and Cold .

Tongue soreness : Feeling of tongue pain .

Itchiness : Feeling itching throughout body

Hair loss : Loss of hair

Poor appetite : Lack of hunger feeling

Tingling sensation : Tingling sensation

Complications :

Lack of iron deficiency may cause weak Immune Systems.

Tachycardia is also a common complication that may arise in severely anaemic people.

The tissues of oxygen may deprives . Due to this heart functions a lot to compensate lack of oxygen . As a result heart gets enlarger and leads to heart failure.

Severe anaemia may result in premature birth, low birth weight, and low cognitive ability in babies.

Iron deficiency may also leads to restless feeling of body .

Pregnant women may also develop postnatal depression .

Anaemic children may suffer from lack of growth and delayed growth and development.

People who are more affected by iron deficiency anaemia :

Women , Children , Vegetarians

Blood building foods to Tackle Anaemia :

Kale : Kale is incredibly rich in chlorophyll (making it a great blood builder), and many other vitamins and minerals like Vitamins K, A, C, and E as well as manganese, calcium, iron and copper. The iron in kale is also essential for healthy blood, keeping us alert and clear-headed.

Figs: Figs are a very mineral dense fruit. They have incredibly high iron content which makes them a great blood builder and useful in cases of anaemia.

Beets : Beet juice is a blood purifier and blood builder and helps in the creation of red blood cells. Beet juice improves blood structure and cures diseases of the circulatory system, large intestine and digestive system

Parsley : Parsley is well known for it’s remarkable blood-cleansing benefits which classify it as a super food. It is incredibly rich in chlorophyll (see above) and vitamin C which is a major anti-inflammatory and helps the body absorb iron.

Spinach : Anaemia occurs when there isn’t enough haemoglobin (an iron-protein compound in red blood cells that transports oxygen) in the blood and there are too few red blood cells. Thus, increasing your iron levels is an important thing to do when you have anaemia or other blood related problems