People with mental illness: How to treat, where to treat?

World-weary! Bewildered by the difficulties and challenges of life! Silence, holding back or breaking into violence . Psychologists call it mental illness. Today, psychotherapy can help you remove the mental illness.

With the development of psychotherapeutic science, people do not need to suppress their hearts and minds against the easy-to-encounter hindrances in everyday life, because there are specialists in psychoanalysis.

The specialization to treat mental illness is called 'Psychotherapy'.

Only thing, 'Psychotherapy' has just developed in Vietnam.

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Psychologists sit together to find the direction for psychotherapy. Outwardly, X, 16, is a female student of the 'good and good child'. I live in a big family including grandmother, parents, brother, aunt, brother and cousin. In the whole family, X. is the only one who is going to high school and studying well. X. Only living with family and loved by people. In addition, she has few friends and other social relations.

Thought has nothing to say, but then things get complicated . Suddenly, in X. there are symptoms like sadness, boredom, anorexia. These symptoms gradually turn out to be worse to the point of X. Can not memorize lessons. Every time I study, X. has a headache, nausea . Seeing that, the family brought X. to the psychiatric clinic and the IFC Psychological Department (Individual & Family Counseling).

At IFC, X. consult and treat psychotherapy once a week. Here, the consultant used the professional skills with the guidance of Libby Zinman-Schwartz, an American psychologist (currently helping IFC train psychological consultants). diagnose and come to identify problems that X. encountered.

Step by step, through reliable communication with the counselor, X has gradually revealed himself. It turns out, because being considered a "good child, a good game", X is often taken out as an "example" for her cousin. So, whenever her cousin is scolded, X feels guilty that she has an error. On the other hand, due to the concern of people in the family, excessive care should be put back to have an opposite effect: X always feels that he must be responsible for everyone in the family and bind himself to please all Excessive person.

Along with this torment, X is self-contradictory when he does not want to become an adult because he is afraid that when he becomes an adult, no one will love him like the present .

When unable to confide in anyone about the problems encountered, this girl's inner strife was so intense that she got sick .

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The case like X. encountered, is not rare . Another 26-year-old girl came to IFC at first, just because she felt stressed with her colleagues at work.

However, through many psychotherapy sessions, this girl has revealed deep insights in her life (sexually abused since childhood), then after therapy, she has courage and self-confidence. believe confronting the troubles surrounding your situation.

Psychologists are exchanging with each other at the First Psychological Therapy Workshop in Ho Chi Minh City. Luckily, X, or that girl has found the right 'medicine' . That is 'psychological therapy'. by psychologists with mature professional skills.

According to Mr. Ngo Minh Uy, IFC's Psychological Counseling Department, 'Counseling and psychotherapy should not be mistaken for giving people a mental illness with an advice, a teaching. It is important, to help the patient to identify his or her own self, to reveal the truth about himself. Next, through professional exercises under the guidance of psychologists, people with mental illness gradually change their perspective of life, accept the real situation that they have encountered and boldly respond to the situation. more confidently . '

But the important thing is how can X reveal his true emotions? According to Ms. Huynh Thi Hoai Nhu, IFC psychology counseling room, it is a very difficult problem and requires the necessary professional skills of psychologists.

In order to revive the depressed psychology of people with mental illness (or 'client', according to the 'psychotherapist' caller), strict time setting with clients is strictly established during each consultation session. . For example, after the agreement with the client, each consultation session is 30 minutes, the client cannot be late. If it is late, the time the client is late will be deducted from the working time. This forces the client to be responsible during the treatment process. At the same time, thereby, giving them the habit of managing their lives and not maintaining the spirit of surrender.

The difference in the implementation of IFC psychotherapy compared to many places where psychological counseling is currently available, the consultant does not help and does not deal with clients with their problems. Counselors only help 'evoke' with psychological therapies to help clients solve their problems.

Libby Zinman-Schwartz, who has for many years studied psychotherapy, commented: "In the West, a healthy individual is a person who can express all of his or her emotions safely. But in Vietnam, there is another way of looking at this issue. "

Psychotherapy: Just started

Our psychological-educational science now exists as a heavy science in theory and these theories are heavy in academic reasoning. Therefore, they have not yet fully utilized the effects in practice, the application of life is weak.

(Petition of Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations to the National Assembly in May 2005)

Agreeing with Ms Libby, Dr. Dinh Phuong Duy, Ho Chi Minh City Educational Psychology Association also commented: Recently, there is a lot of demand for psychotherapy. Especially in real life, we do not have the habit of expressing emotions. Sometimes want to keep something for yourself. Afraid that saying something will be judged, criticized by others .

Also Prof. Dr. Tran Tuan Lo, Head of the Department of Psychology at Van Hien University confirms the fact that schools, hospitals, and companies need to have psychotherapists. But now, this segment is still left open. Therefore, more and more students are looking to die, workers in companies and enterprises have expressed a "stacking" reaction .

However, the problem is that, people with mental illness can go anywhere to treat . is still a big concern for those who work related to psychology.

Ms. Libby at the Psychotherapy Workshop

Without hesitation, Dr. Dinh Phuong Duy stated that the situation affirmed: "The psychotherapy industry in Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular have nothing at all. In terms of people, human resources, qualified people only counting on one finger, only a few people are trained abroad, we are at the beginning, people have a sense of psychotherapy and the needs of people want to express. We are forming a new habit, helping people to express and people need an expert to solve psychological problems. "

-TS Dinh Phuong Duy added that most experts in Vietnam are equipped with the theoretical part of the Russian and some other countries. But not equipped with therapy.

Recently, there are a number of experts who are trying their best in this industry. Although they are not well trained, they explore and research many books and learn to apply for themselves. There are now a few places where psychotherapy has been conducted, but not much .

Most of the centers of psychological counseling today only work . counseling, which means giving advice to people who are sick and not yet having psychological treatment!

The psychotherapy industry in us is slow compared to the development of society. There is a lot of pressure on people to be mentally disturbed. For reasons: work pressure, moral values ​​change, but people cannot keep up with changes leading to play, causing psychological shocks. If psychotherapy is not carried out, people with a mental illness find it difficult to regain psychological equilibrium. This leads to negative consequences for society, affecting both social order and safety.

Currently, in Ho Chi Minh City, in addition to 20 psychological counseling centers, 'although enthusiastic but still inconsistent in skills and orientation', only IFC is implementing psychotherapy. But according to Dr. Dinh Phuong Duy: "IFC is only the initial form, the IFC experts are just trying to perform psychotherapy with the guidance of foreign experts . '

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