Back in real life, we must admit that more people will yell at Ying Sicong: "What? ! Do you have sensory impairment? ! Then why are you still walking around outside? Should be locked up! You are bound to cause social harm! 」
Mental illness always carries a lot of stigma. When society can't recognize and understand this disease, it is more difficult for people with dyskinesia to survive. Today, let's take a look at several common misunderstandings about dyskinesia, hoping to create a better society through more understanding and acceptance.
Myth 1: If parents don't teach well, children will feel dull.
We can often see that when a child suffers from mental illness, neighbors and relatives will whisper "How is his mother ……", so that parents, especially mothers, of people with dyskinesia have to bear more verbal bullying while accepting the pain of their child's illness.
But thinking disorder is also related to genes, trauma, environment, alcoholism, smoking marijuana, amphetamine, cocaine and other drugs. According to general research, parental rearing patterns have no significant influence on the occurrence of sensory disorders. So if you know a patient with dysarthria, please don't rush to review and blame his parents. Myth 2: People with dyskinesia should always live in a mental hospital!
With the improvement of social awareness of mental illness and the effectiveness of treatment, more and more patients with sensory impairment can go home with the support of family and friends, provided that the support system at home is good. If they have not recovered to the level where they can work in the workplace at ordinary times, patients can also participate in day wards and community organization activities and report to the hospital for some activities and treatment every day. In the case of poor home support system, patients are more likely to be hospitalized for a long time.
Myth 3: People with this kind of thinking disorder have multiple personalities!
In order to make the role arrangement tense and the plot attractive, movies often introduce such characters as "multiple personalities", but in fact there are not so many people with multiple personalities in the real world. Each personality of patients with multiple personalities can have its own thinking mode and develop completely, just like a body with different souls.
The English word for sensory impairment is "schizophrenia", which comes from the Greek roots schizein (tearing) and phren (mind). Therefore, this disease was called schizophrenia in the past, and the patient's thoughts, emotions and behaviors collapsed. The divided mind could hardly distinguish reality from illusion, so it produced wrong concepts and decoupled from the real world because it believed in illusion. Therefore, people with dyskinesia are different from multiple personalities. This disease will not develop two, three or many different complete personalities.
Myth 4: People with sensory impairment are very violent!
Crazy killers in movies are often associated with dyskinesia, which easily leads ordinary people to mistake dyskinesia patients for violent tendencies. In fact, on the contrary, people with dyskinesia are more often victims of violence than those who use violence. Usually, people with dyskinesia will first show some symptoms such as becoming more and more withdrawn and unwilling to participate in activities. If they happen to meet the pressure of entering a new workplace and becoming fresh college students, their symptoms will continue to deteriorate in a few months to several years, instead of suddenly changing their faces and becoming fierce in a second.
According to this study, patients with dyskinesia who are being treated are no more dangerous than ordinary people. If people with dyskinesia suddenly go crazy, they may not have received treatment, or they may have other drug abuse and drug abuse at the same time.
Myth 5: People with dyskinesia are not smart enough to work!
People with dyskinesia often find it difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. In thinking, they tend to be inattentive and have difficulty in learning and remembering. It's really difficult to find a job and have a regular job every week. Moreover, people with dyskinesia may not be able to care about appearance and image problems, which will make superior officers think that patients are indifferent or lack of hygiene. However, if the treatment is properly controlled, patients will not completely lose their behavioral ability, so they can consider career counseling and find a position that suits their talents. In addition, after honing social skills and job training, there are still many patients who are competent for the job. Moreover, continuous work is sometimes considered as a way of rehabilitation.
Mathematician John, the protagonist in the film Beautiful Realm? Nash-a patient with sensory impairment, has been experiencing various hallucinations since he was in college, and finally won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Therefore, people with dyskinesia can be very smart and creative.
But having said that, we can also look at it the other way around. Even such a smart person will still have hallucinations when his thinking and feelings are out of balance, which means that these brain experiences are very real to patients. The protagonist in the movie doesn't realize: "My friend won't be old, and his niece won't grow up." I realized that those two characters were an illusion in my head. Therefore, don't think that "as long as a person is smart enough, there will be no illusion." This kind of experience or brain change is beyond the control of intelligence. Whether you are educated or not has nothing to do with whether you are insane or not. Myth 6: No one in my family has ever suffered from sensory disturbance, so it won't happen to me or my children!
Dyskinesia is related to heredity. If one parent suffers from sensory impairment, the probability of the child getting sick is about 10%. If both parents suffer from sensory impairment, the chances of the child getting sick will be close to 50%. In short, "first-degree relatives suffer from sensory disturbance" is indeed an important risk factor for the onset of this disease. However, even identical twin brothers will not say that their brother has dysarthria, and the younger brother is destined to have dysarthria, with a probability of about 50%. This means that in addition to genes, environmental factors still play a role in the pathogenesis of sensory disorders.
The pressures brought by the environment are very diverse, such as failing to meet academic standards, abusing drugs, being infected with viruses at some important time points, and being exposed to toxins. It can also induce thinking disorders. Myth 7: a madman is a madman, and it is useless to cure it!
The most likely source of mental illness is the brain. Whether it is a slight difference in structure or a disorder in chemical secretion, the brain function may be different from that of ordinary people. Although we can't find the brain abnormality of sensory disturbance from electrophysiological, neuroimaging, blood drawing and other studies, and there are still difficulties in treatment, the disease is not incurable.
Of course, each patient's symptoms, cognitive ability and emotional changes are very different. With the help of current drugs and treatments, a small number of patients can fully recover, and a small number of patients are seriously ill and cannot live on their own. These two classes are at the two ends of the spectrum. Most of the remaining patients are in an intermediate state. After treatment, their condition has improved, and they can live a stable life most of the time, but occasionally they will face some disability or crisis.
In Taiwan Province Province, many family members will take the road of asking God for advice, unwilling to admit that their family members are sick, and continue to use folk therapy when they are stuck in the shade. If you are ill for a long time like this before receiving treatment, the effect is really poor.
Myth 8: This is a mental illness, and there must be many girls!
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, the brains of these patients are just dysfunctional, not just a person's imagination. The incidence of dyskinesia is higher than we thought. According to statistics, about 23 million people in the world (that is, the population of Taiwan Province Province) suffer from dyskinesia. Among them, the incidence rate of boys is slightly higher than that of women, and the onset time is earlier than that of women, mostly in their twenties.
God gives different cards to all beings, and each of us has our own problems to solve. Only by taking more time to understand the situation of others, putting yourself in others' shoes and reducing unnecessary fears caused by understanding can we shorten our distance from evil.
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