Mental Illness

Mental illness is one of the serious problems of the world. Human brain can get sick at any age. The difficulty is that one does not know the cause of mental illness. Factors responsible for mental illness are emotional disturbance, burden of a single thought, stress, tension etc. it is found that mental illness came primarily from the physical cause, from a psychological cause or a combination of both. Physical causes are like communicable diseases, nutritional deficiencies, accidents involving the brain, nervous breakdown, use of certain drugs, alcohols, poor hereditary etc. as these physical defects causes emotional problems in an indirect way.

Symptoms like feeling of anxiety, guilt, depression, confusion, fantasy, and obsession helps in recognizing mental illness. Still many people think of mental illness as wholly a state of mind but in real mind and the body are not independent as body and emotions are interactive and inseparable. In most of the cases physical illness has some effect on health of the mind and vise-versa. In recent year of study it is found that nervous impulses originating in the brain stimulate HCl in the stomach because of tension, worry and other emotional problems. On the other hand many infectious diseases may produce temporary or permanent disorders of the mind example pellagra.

There are various approaches to deal with the mental illness. The very fundamental is to contact the experts or which may help you in bringing out you from any emotional stress, tension etc. some of the ways which truly helps are hypnosis, brain surgery, electric shock, physiotherapy etc. under the guidance of physician.  Proper rest is must and to discuss the matters with your elders and try to be involve in social or cultural activities. Healthy proper diet is also necessary. One should seek all the possible measures and should not take it so lightly, because it is like a deadly poison that it can shed all the beauty of a person in a fraction of seconds.