Can mentally insane people be cured?!
Question: Can mentally insane people be cured!?
this just came to me out of the blue!. Can insane people be cured!? What do mental asylums actually do to treat these people!? I know they have therapy/medicine and such, but can they really heal them to the point where they would leave the hospital as normal people!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Depends what you call mentally insane, there are different types of mental disorders and their response to therapy varies!. Only people that are at a continuous severe risk of harm to themselves and others are usually admitted to state mental hospitals; these are the people whose symptoms are the hardest to control!.
Mentally ill people who are normally stable on medication but have relapses when they cannot sleep, they start hearing voices, etc, will be admitted to an inpatient mental health unit, which is usually within the local hospital!. There they receive treatment such as medication re-evaluation, dose adjustment, electroconvulsive therapy ('shock' treatment that is used for people with major depression) and group therapy that teaches them steps of relapse prevention, coping skills, relaxation therapy, activity therapies, etc!.
Once a patient leaves hospital, there are various programs, such as partial hospitalization program (sort of like a 'day hospital' for people with mental illnesses) or structured outpatient program (where the patient comes in once a month, once every 6 weeks, or whatever interval set by their psychiatrist and they can monitor medication effectiveness and symptom control without being hospitalized)!.
Although mental illness cannot be 'cured', only managed with medication, these people can lead independent lives!.!.!.just because you have a mental illness, it does not mean you will have to be institutionalized for life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Mentally ill people who are normally stable on medication but have relapses when they cannot sleep, they start hearing voices, etc, will be admitted to an inpatient mental health unit, which is usually within the local hospital!. There they receive treatment such as medication re-evaluation, dose adjustment, electroconvulsive therapy ('shock' treatment that is used for people with major depression) and group therapy that teaches them steps of relapse prevention, coping skills, relaxation therapy, activity therapies, etc!.
Once a patient leaves hospital, there are various programs, such as partial hospitalization program (sort of like a 'day hospital' for people with mental illnesses) or structured outpatient program (where the patient comes in once a month, once every 6 weeks, or whatever interval set by their psychiatrist and they can monitor medication effectiveness and symptom control without being hospitalized)!.
Although mental illness cannot be 'cured', only managed with medication, these people can lead independent lives!.!.!.just because you have a mental illness, it does not mean you will have to be institutionalized for life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Insanity is no longer treated as a single illness, as there can be many causes of psychosis!.
Sometimes psychosis can be caused by external causes, such as exhaustion, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, or the ingestion of a chemical, and people who suffer psychotic episodes brought on by such means usually recover once the situation is remedied
Mental illness however, isn't as easy and psychiatric hospitals don't look to cure but rather to have the patient manage his or her illness!. They create psychiatric profiles to get an idea of the type of medications and therapies that each specific patient needs, since insanity is not an illness but rather the effect of an illness!.
The goal is to get them to lead normal lives, but not to cure them in the sense you're most likely thinking, since because psychotic illnesses are theorized to be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, there is no easy cure, so the patient will have to continue on the medication and most likely see a therapist regularly on an outpatient basis!.
That said, this is the real world, so it is possible and likely that there are some psychiatric hospitals where the staff don't care about rehabilitating the patients, and there are people who are either unaffected by therapy and medication, or not helped enough by either to live an independant life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Sometimes psychosis can be caused by external causes, such as exhaustion, sleep deprivation, malnutrition, or the ingestion of a chemical, and people who suffer psychotic episodes brought on by such means usually recover once the situation is remedied
Mental illness however, isn't as easy and psychiatric hospitals don't look to cure but rather to have the patient manage his or her illness!. They create psychiatric profiles to get an idea of the type of medications and therapies that each specific patient needs, since insanity is not an illness but rather the effect of an illness!.
The goal is to get them to lead normal lives, but not to cure them in the sense you're most likely thinking, since because psychotic illnesses are theorized to be caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, there is no easy cure, so the patient will have to continue on the medication and most likely see a therapist regularly on an outpatient basis!.
That said, this is the real world, so it is possible and likely that there are some psychiatric hospitals where the staff don't care about rehabilitating the patients, and there are people who are either unaffected by therapy and medication, or not helped enough by either to live an independant life!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I have paranoid schizophrenia, and was sectioned (forcibly detained and medicated) for it while psychotic!.
While psychotic, I spent many months wandering around London, and my state of mind was such that I could have easily killed some innocent person!. And I always carried a knife!.!.!.
That's pretty insane!.
After being released from the hospital about 8 years ago, I kind of decided that the whole "service user" stuff was not for me, and made my own decisions about medication, etc!.
I take a little anti-psychotic medication, just enough to ensure my sanity, but not enough to have any side effects from!. I use natural alternatives, primarily fish oil and probiotics!.
I have a very highly paid, interesting job, at companies where no-one knows anything about my condition (I work freelance), I have have a nice apartment, with neighbours who also do not know anything, and a cool car, etc!.!.!.
It could be me who just drove past you on the motorway!.!.!. I could be your neighbour!.!.!. I could be the guy working at the desk opposite you!.!.!.
I think that answers your question!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
While psychotic, I spent many months wandering around London, and my state of mind was such that I could have easily killed some innocent person!. And I always carried a knife!.!.!.
That's pretty insane!.
After being released from the hospital about 8 years ago, I kind of decided that the whole "service user" stuff was not for me, and made my own decisions about medication, etc!.
I take a little anti-psychotic medication, just enough to ensure my sanity, but not enough to have any side effects from!. I use natural alternatives, primarily fish oil and probiotics!.
I have a very highly paid, interesting job, at companies where no-one knows anything about my condition (I work freelance), I have have a nice apartment, with neighbours who also do not know anything, and a cool car, etc!.!.!.
It could be me who just drove past you on the motorway!.!.!. I could be your neighbour!.!.!. I could be the guy working at the desk opposite you!.!.!.
I think that answers your question!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Mental illness is not something you are born with!. If you were born with a healthy, fully functioning brain, then mental illness is brought on by that person, on purpose!. It is not a disorder, it is not a disease, it's not a deformity!. IF, again, like i said, that person was born healthy!. Mental illness is created by that individual!. If a person has a break down, then that person chose to breakdown, whether something traumatic happen to that person, it was that person who decided to shut down and snap!.
It is a thought process, a decision by that one person!. That's why it is sad to hear that a person committed a crime because he had a mental illness!. Mental illness is simply brought on by a person who cannot think for himself, because he chooses not to!. It can go many ways!. If you think of something so much and continue to think about it overs and overs, then you change your thought process because now your mind thinks it is real, or mind thinks that it is o!.k!.!. So when you act out on that thought, that thought that you thought of, it is not normal and not accepted by the rest of the world because we did not let our mind replay it overs and overs!. So we see it as a illness!.
So to answer your question, yes, a person can change!. He must let his mind stabilize and see that they can control their own thoughts!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
It is a thought process, a decision by that one person!. That's why it is sad to hear that a person committed a crime because he had a mental illness!. Mental illness is simply brought on by a person who cannot think for himself, because he chooses not to!. It can go many ways!. If you think of something so much and continue to think about it overs and overs, then you change your thought process because now your mind thinks it is real, or mind thinks that it is o!.k!.!. So when you act out on that thought, that thought that you thought of, it is not normal and not accepted by the rest of the world because we did not let our mind replay it overs and overs!. So we see it as a illness!.
So to answer your question, yes, a person can change!. He must let his mind stabilize and see that they can control their own thoughts!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
for years and even now mental illness is the hardest thing to cure, if ever, my mom as a mental illness and she still has it today, she does well for a while than she will sleep or not sleep and than get's nervous, even with medication she is never cured, but she is the best loving mom around, so don't lable mental hospitals they do helpWww@Answer-Health@Com
Depends what you mean by "normal"!. I don't think there is a cure for serious mental illnesses, but they can be controlled to an extent that the person can live a relatively "normal" life in some cases!. Other cases are so severe that the person must be permanently institutionalised!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If they have the insight to know that they have this problem, then they can control themselves by taking the treatment strictly and also checking themselves every now and then!. However there are instances whereby they are cured completely by divine intervention!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I think that any person can be cured of anything with the right treatment!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Since normalcy follows a bell curve, it is pretty 'wide'!. It is possible for people to move closer or further away from normative behavior (which is really all we can quantify and measure!.)
If you think of a time in your life when you have become very unhappy or very angry, mental illness might be described as being unhappy or angry most of the time even when you'd really rather be doing something else!. It sort of takes up most of your time and attention!.
(LIke the man who asked his talking computer, "Are you finished with that work I gave you yet!?" "No, not yet!." "Why not!?" "Because it's taking up over 99!.99 percent of my capacity holding this fascinating conversation with you!.")
The purpose of therapy is to help understand why we get in such a rut and how we might get out of it!. The purpose of medication is to do what therapy alone can't do, to break a chemical unbalance or to provide a better chemical balance in order to get out of the rut!. (Obviously, therapy alone is better, but drugs are better than nothing!.)
When a person is back in control of their life and no longer unhappy or angry most of the time, their behavior moves closer to the center of the scale, closer to what is considered 'normative'!.
I think it is reasonable to call such people 'cured'!. Obviously, the further away from the norm one moves, the angrier or sadder one is, the more difficult it may be to get out of the rut!.
Just as one can focus on a sport or hobby or relationship to the exclusion of other things, so we can focus on our hurts or sadness or anger to the point where it is hard to give them up!. (This is especially true in cases where we feel we have been wronged!.) So we can lose time and friends and money by neglecting other interests in our lives!.
Sometimes if a person is not able to function in society due to this wrong focus, it may be beneficial for them to come apart from society for a while, at a restful retreat where their needs are taken care of so they can spend all their time resolving the problems that have (temporarily) overcome them!. This is especially necessary in cases where they may become dangerous to themselves or to others around them!.
To use an example, we all get angry at various times and to different degrees!. But I hope you can see that the person who gives in to their anger and expresses it violently against somone else, in a situation that is not self-defense has made it much more difficult for themselves to be cured and return to society!. This is because they must first admit to themselves that what they did was not only wrong but cruel or selfish!. Some are never able to admit that to themselves and so remain 'uncured'!. But that is a matter of accumulated choices!.
Perhaps the most important thing that psychiatrists and mental institutions provide is that the more they learn, the more we may be able to prevent such things!. In any area where problems may arise, prevention is generally considered better and easier than cure!.
Prevention of mental illness may come through several avenues!. The earliest is parenting, learning good behavior and wholesome relationships at home!. Another is through government, learning to respond to the law!. Since the government is not an individual, to whom we can relate as individuals, there must also be religion, so that we have a God to relate to and learn to get along with, and so develop a conscience!.
[This branches out into philosophy but you will see that if there is not really any God, then whatever we do, it does not really matter!. If the Sun will someday expand and swallow up the Earth as the scientists say it will, and if there is no personal God Who is not just a part of the universe, then 'good' and 'evil' and 'sanity' and 'insanity' are just nonsense words!. Either God defines good and evil, or in the long run, nothing does!. Either God created intelligence and personality or they just sort of developed from mindless matter and energy and therefore are not really mind or personality after all!. To insist on a non-theistic origin of the universe and ourselves is to vote for meaninglessness and insanity!.]
I hope this has been helpful and thought provoking!.
12 JUNE 08, 1524 hrs, GMT!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
If you think of a time in your life when you have become very unhappy or very angry, mental illness might be described as being unhappy or angry most of the time even when you'd really rather be doing something else!. It sort of takes up most of your time and attention!.
(LIke the man who asked his talking computer, "Are you finished with that work I gave you yet!?" "No, not yet!." "Why not!?" "Because it's taking up over 99!.99 percent of my capacity holding this fascinating conversation with you!.")
The purpose of therapy is to help understand why we get in such a rut and how we might get out of it!. The purpose of medication is to do what therapy alone can't do, to break a chemical unbalance or to provide a better chemical balance in order to get out of the rut!. (Obviously, therapy alone is better, but drugs are better than nothing!.)
When a person is back in control of their life and no longer unhappy or angry most of the time, their behavior moves closer to the center of the scale, closer to what is considered 'normative'!.
I think it is reasonable to call such people 'cured'!. Obviously, the further away from the norm one moves, the angrier or sadder one is, the more difficult it may be to get out of the rut!.
Just as one can focus on a sport or hobby or relationship to the exclusion of other things, so we can focus on our hurts or sadness or anger to the point where it is hard to give them up!. (This is especially true in cases where we feel we have been wronged!.) So we can lose time and friends and money by neglecting other interests in our lives!.
Sometimes if a person is not able to function in society due to this wrong focus, it may be beneficial for them to come apart from society for a while, at a restful retreat where their needs are taken care of so they can spend all their time resolving the problems that have (temporarily) overcome them!. This is especially necessary in cases where they may become dangerous to themselves or to others around them!.
To use an example, we all get angry at various times and to different degrees!. But I hope you can see that the person who gives in to their anger and expresses it violently against somone else, in a situation that is not self-defense has made it much more difficult for themselves to be cured and return to society!. This is because they must first admit to themselves that what they did was not only wrong but cruel or selfish!. Some are never able to admit that to themselves and so remain 'uncured'!. But that is a matter of accumulated choices!.
Perhaps the most important thing that psychiatrists and mental institutions provide is that the more they learn, the more we may be able to prevent such things!. In any area where problems may arise, prevention is generally considered better and easier than cure!.
Prevention of mental illness may come through several avenues!. The earliest is parenting, learning good behavior and wholesome relationships at home!. Another is through government, learning to respond to the law!. Since the government is not an individual, to whom we can relate as individuals, there must also be religion, so that we have a God to relate to and learn to get along with, and so develop a conscience!.
[This branches out into philosophy but you will see that if there is not really any God, then whatever we do, it does not really matter!. If the Sun will someday expand and swallow up the Earth as the scientists say it will, and if there is no personal God Who is not just a part of the universe, then 'good' and 'evil' and 'sanity' and 'insanity' are just nonsense words!. Either God defines good and evil, or in the long run, nothing does!. Either God created intelligence and personality or they just sort of developed from mindless matter and energy and therefore are not really mind or personality after all!. To insist on a non-theistic origin of the universe and ourselves is to vote for meaninglessness and insanity!.]
I hope this has been helpful and thought provoking!.
12 JUNE 08, 1524 hrs, GMT!.Www@Answer-Health@Com