Psycholigical Disorders Intervention and Treatment

Psychological Disorders and Intervention and Treatment

 Mental illnesses are for most people embarrassing and shameful few people are likely to tell friends and family they are seeing a psychiatrist or psychologist.  It is painful to dig into the soul and use therapy like cognitive behavioral treatments to your life, even to relieve the psychological disorder. Counseling for psychological disorders can be very expensive and insurance providers do not always cover the cost. Seeing a psychologist or psychiatrist is invaluable to your whole self not just your mind and emotions, or the psychological disorder. Physical health is connected to your mind and overall health, caring for your inner self can boost other parts.

Like a physical disease, diabetes and cancer, a psychological disorder can strike anyone at any time in their life, no matter of how wealthy, happy, or stable they are.

Some of the psychological disorders that are the most common are: depression, major depression, dysthymic disorder, adjustment disorder with depression and bipolar depression.

Anxiety Disorders: panic disorder, post traumatic stress, social anxiety, agoraphobia, obsessive compulsive disorder and certain phobias.

 Schizophrenia: is a chronic, severe, and disabling mental disorder.  

Childhood Disorders: behavioral control problems, including ADHD, conduct disturbance, and oppositional behavior. Separation anxiety, a common problem in young children

Impulse Control Disorders: psychological problems involving loss of control are described in this section. Anger control problems are usually diagnosed as intermittent explosive disorder, domestic violence problems. pathological gambling and kleptomania.

Personality Disorders: general characteristics of all personality disorders, obsessive compulsive, narcissistic and borderline personality disorders.

Adjustment Disorders: The general characteristics of adjustment disorders, life stressors that lead to adjustment problems, such as marital conflict and job stress.

Family Problems: family conflicts often occur because one or more family members have a psychological. Family conflicts also arise because of communication problems, parenting issues, school problems and sibling conflicts.

Psychological disorders, also called mental disorders, are persistent behavior patterns that can seriously affect your day-to-day function and life.

The treatment of psychological disorders is firstly recognizing that a problem exists.  Regular medical care can be helpful because it allows a health care professional to provide early screening tests. Regular medical care also provides an opportunity for your health care professional to promptly evaluate symptoms and the risks for developing psychological disorders.

 Frequently treatment includes psychotherapy to work on behaviors, skill development, and thought process. 

Common treatments of psychological disorders start with medication to relive the disorder and help with the therapy. These may be: Antianxiety medications, Antidepressant medications to improve moods, Antipsychotic medications to treat disordered thought patterns and altered perceptions.

 The psychological approaches may include: Cognitive behavioral therapy to work on thought patterns and behavior, Family therapy to help develop support and understanding, Group therapy, Hospitalization for coexisting medical problems, serious complications, severe disorders, or substance abuse and Individual therapy, Moodstabilizing medications are used if needed. Psychodynamic therapy works on discovering and understanding past issues and their relationship to current thoughts and behaviors and Support groups.

Psychological methods of treatment can often find underlying issues that can occur with dual diagnosis and often can provide insight to behavior problems which can mask a more serious disorder. The muse of psycho logic treatments can aid recovery more easily and in a shorter time period

Discrimination and the Mentally Ill

Many people experience stigma for many reasons. Discrimination is found in many different prejudices, like sexual orientation, gender, culture or physical disability. Discrimination can lead to mental problems or substance abuse problems. And people who already discriminated for any reason may be even less able to find help for these problems or less able to find services that they need.
Research shows that over half of people living with mental disorders say that they were embarrassed about their mental health problems, and over half felt like they had experienced discrimination.


Just under half of the people thought that a mental disorder was just an excuse for poor behavior. Only about one in three people would continue to be friends with someone with an alcohol use problem. Only about one in four would continue to be friends with someone with a drug use problem



What can we do about it? Discrimination of mental health and substance use is a human rights problem. Human rights are rights that all people should have. The respect and dignity is a freedom that should not be taken away by other people’s ideas or by myths. It is a basic human right for all people with mental health and substance use problems. Everyone has the right to live without discrimination of any kind.


Health and well-being are things like human rights and access to opportunities. Discrimination denies human rights, and creates unequal access. Human rights and helping everyone to take part in our society, we are also fighting the discrimination and improving people’s wellbeing.


Focus on the differences in people poverty, the need for affordable housing; more education opportunities and the opportunity for meaningful work are social factors that can affect well-being. These factors may be an outcome of mental health and a cause of mental health issues. Inequalities tackled among the members of a community are helpful for the individuals and society. The systems that create differences by encouraging our governments have to have positive laws. Supporting people in our communities who are working to reduce differences is paramount to resolve mental health discrimination.


Everyone has the right to work. Work gives us purpose and meaning. Also the income, with other social factors, for example, if we have a high income, we can afford better housing and have right to more services. People are entitled to have access to training, education or other work programs. Direct personal contact and interacting with people with mental health or substance use problems is one of the best ways to improve public attitudes. Experiences can counteract the major myths. Education can help people to understand the problems the mentally ill face.


Mental illness and substance use problems are shared by humanity the fear, prejudice and discrimination are less when we talk about mental health problems as unfortunate biological problems and fateful circumstances which a person has no control of.


Help people be heard: We need to encourage anti-stigma programs and research. Supporting people and connecting them with others who share the same problems. When people relate to each other’s difficulties and want to see a change, to share their stories they can protest the injustice.


Media like TV, movies, newspapers, influence how we see others. The media should show people for who they really are capable and productive members of society. The voice of people with mental illnesses and substance use problems with backup of the media can be powerful. The discrimination against a group of people is a vital issue that needs to be addressed by all.