Mental Health
The fact that there is greater dissemination of information regarding mental health was of enormous benefit to people living a condition of discomfort, because makes them feel less alone and often directed towards appropriate care. Yet, as every coin, even the excessive amount of information has a flip side: many people self-diagnosed disease varied and often resort to a pernicious self-medication.
Complicit in this phenomenon are often the “outing” of celebrities from the entertainment world, making many serious diseases as a matter of fashion. The two psychiatrists complain of British health service,
Diana Chan and Lester Sireling, working in a local mental health center in North London. According to specialists, family doctors and psychiatrists are flooded with requests for treatment by patients who claim to already know the disease suffered by. This is particularly the case for bipolar disorder, which were declared with Stephen Fry, Carrie Fisher, Mel Gibson and Robbie Williams.
Bipolar disorder is a serious and grave problem: in Italy suffer between 2 and 5% of the population, approximately 600 000 people who alternate periods of depressed mood in manic states characterized by delusions of omnipotence, hyperactivity, and shopping sprees drug abuse.
“This disease is too often taken very seriously by patients and doctors. And too often is diagnosed late. Just think – says Professor Andrea Fagiolini, director of operational complex of psychiatry and graduate school of psychiatry, University of Siena – at diagnosis is wrong seven times out of ten. ” This is because the symptoms of this disease are often at the limit with depression and schizophrenia and also because the disease stages of normality knows that alternate with periods of crisis. So before a serious diagnosis may also pass 10 years, often leading to patient suicide (1 in 10) not treated in time and adequately.
Despite the seriousness of this disorder, many people are convinced to be affected. Why? “Precisely because the disorder is so difficult to diagnose and easy to confuse, many tend to think that normal mood swings, tied to the ups and downs of life, are symptoms of this medical condition. And move to the cry ‘we are all bipolar’. ”
In my opinion, the increase of self comes from a desire of people to name their discomfort, confusion of the skills of several specialists and approaches dealing with mental health. To avoid the dangers of this phenomenon, including the use of do-it-yourself therapy, unfortunately, pharmacological and therefore would require serious and correct information and a complaint by specialists and professional, of all the abuses that bring people to incompetent counsel or such other times diagnosis or treatment.
When you experience an uncomfortable is important to contact a competent person who can help, rather than rely on information, not always clear, of the media, considering that today there are more tools to improve their mental balance. “With the use and choice of drugs, antipsychotics and antidepressants, custom, favoring those with greater tolerability, less toxicity and fewer side effects. Work well interpersonal therapy and cognitive-behavioral, “says Beans.
Bipolar disorder, as well as other psychiatric disorders are not forms of creativity and should not be considered a fad, even if your favorite singer suffers.