Sunday 13 November 2011

Manage Mental Breakdown: Typical Signs And Symptoms


Mental breakdown is a mind illness. This disease is a psychological one, not physical. Many people call it nervous breakdown. It can be both psychological and emotional collapse. This usually happens when the person has reached beyond his mental and emotional limit.

When the person has experienced a physical breakdown in reality, he may suffer from depression and eventually mentally breakdown. An individual may find it hard to deal with and handle situations where so many problems and things need to be solved. And if the person fails to deal with this reality, he will become frustrated and could suffer an emotional or psychological breakdown. Psychotic break is the name given to it by psychologists. When an individual carries his depression and stress for a long time, he will likely suffer from such break.

There is a great chance that the person will be detached from the world if he has mental breakdown. The individual becomes so depressed and then starts to stay away from the real world and from people. This explains why it is so hard to comfort those who have nervous breakdown. The patient will refuse help or comfort because they think you don't care. Paranoia will likely occur to the patient when he comes to the point of having a collapsed mental and emotional state.

Many factors contribute to the development of the breakdown. Death of a family or a loved one, trauma, or a major failure can lead to breakdown. It usually follows an unhandled depression, too much pressure, and stress. The risk of mental collapse can be increased by lack of sleep and poor diet. The risk of mental collapse is also increased when the person has experienced abuse. When a person has a family history of psychotic collapse, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders, he is prone to breakdown.

There are variety of nervous breakdown signs and symptoms. The best way to confirm and diagnose a mental mental breakdown is to see a psychiatrist. Mental, emotional, behavioral, and physical are the types of symptoms. You should ask a psychiatrist for a therapy if you have the following signs and symptoms.

The most common symptoms of nervous breakdown are the following: changes in appetite, visual disturbances, extreme fatigue, disrupted menstrual cycle, weakness, memory loss, low libido, migraine, breathing problems, irritable bowel syndrome, constipation, sleep disruption, and diarrhea.

These are the most common emotional symptoms of nervous breakdown: feeling worthless, suicidal thoughts, disinterest in social life, feelings of guilt, inability to stop crying, loss of confidence, indecision, agitation and restlessness, depression, and anxiety. There are also psychological symptoms of mental collapse such as: disorientation, confusion, flashbacks of traumatic event, thoughts of invincibility, panic attacks, paranoid thoughts, increased drug dependence, hearing voices, and hallucinations.

There are behavioral changes associated to mental collapse. Mood swings or mood disorders is the most common behavioral change. The patient may experience undressing in the public and doing strange actions in very severe conditions. The patient may also exhibit extreme violence or strong anger.

Mental breakdown is not easy to deal with. You must help the patient find a psychiatrist who can help him recover with the breakdown. There is no standard cure to breakdown. There are some who don't likely recover from such breakdown, especially if the mental state has been affected too much. But in mild and average cases, breakdown can be dealt with. You just have to understand the patient and do not be too hard on him even though he doesn't want you around.

The patient will likely recover if he undergoes a psychiatric therapy. Morally and emotionally supporting the patient is very important. Being comforting and patient is important. With these, the patient may recover his sound mind.






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