Prasanna Basnet
10/31/2013
I
was overwhelmed by the responses that I received from my followers on “Let’s Talk
about Stigma on Mental Illness.” I would like to thank you all for reading my
post and encouraging me to write more on this topic.
I often
encounter patients who have co-morbid conditions along with mental illness.
Despite the fact that there are different types of mental illness, the first
step is to tackle and accept you have a problem. Focus should be given on
finding the reasons of a problem and what you can do to make this better from
today onwards is important than neglecting the troubles that you have faced.
Since I am doing my preceptorship
in charitable clinic, most of the patient I see every day cannot afford
healthcare, some of them are homeless, do not have insurance, job, and abused.
It is obvious to have mental problem when they are living in
insufficiency/failure and I do not feel that they are responsible for all bad things that happened to them because life is unpredictable and time is inescapable. Those
people who scamper with the time, despite the circumstances learn to gain
stability in their life. However, if they dangle from the track even at once it
will take a while for them to pull alongside where they were left behind. Often
I relate the life of a person with the Erickson theory of psychosocial
development and I find it confides with the life of an individual in real. Each stage of
life from birth to lifespan plays a critical role to make an individual
satisfied and unsatisfied. According to Erickson, self identity is all teen
want, young adult want intimate loving relationship, adult want a family, older
adult need a sense of fulfillment when looking back on past life. Success in
each stage gives a sense of worth on being wise, useful, and full, while
failure leads to regret, loneliness, and despair. Mental illness is just an
emotional state of mind if you deny catching up the day you missed and
undervalue the need to recover, it will get worse every day and turn into a
form of psychiatric disorder.
Each
individual has a unique personality, style to analyze failure, and strategy to
tackle the problems. For some person it takes a while to get over it, some
needs counseling, some needs medication to numb their emotions and other
heal on their own with time. Learn to give your own needs as a
priority, show positive attitude towards others and abscond jealousy nature.
Develop an effective strategy that has worked for you in the past and learn to
live gracefully by bringing positivity that is hidden somewhere inside you.
Psychiatric medications do not only numb your emotions, but also delay the
normal healing process. Thinking too much about stressful situation and
ignoring your feelings both are harmful, so you need to ventilate your emotions
with the person whom you trust that will help you to heal sooner. If you try
you will find a way, if you do not try you will never know if there was way to
reach where you wanted to be. It is never too late to restart; you can make
this day as day One and set a goal to make you happy and go for it. It might be
hard to forget the past and scars that you got, but do not let that distraction
to be a hindrance of your path to be a healthy person. I wish you good luck and
a lot of positivity in your life.
You've done it
before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the
substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective,
unstoppable determination. -Ralph Marston
