the first time in psychiatry - Questions and Answers many different mental illnesses, at some time in perhaps a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit of a hospital .
Initially this is a very exciting time, appear in the many questions.
was in the nineties, the inpatient treatment in psychiatry still an unknown entity, they had heard of it, but could not imagine anything including exact .
It exists to this day still a nightmare vision of psychiatry.
What we see in movies, reinforces the poor image of psychiatry rather than does it enlightening.
The number of hospital stays will continue to increase in proportion to the mental pressure and stress of today.
Whether it is depression, psychosis, personality disorders, eating disorders, alcohol
tablets abuse burn-out syndrome or suicidal thoughts, the causes leading to the clinic are very different.
What actually happened in psychiatry?
Is there electric shocks and closed departments?
found in almost every family is affected, who have one or several experienced hospital stays.
here I try a few to answer the most common questions.
There are certainly many different causes and life paths that lead in psychiatry and everyone has to give yourself time to understand, out how's life in the clinic is hat.Geduld have to be a buzzword in the Psychiatry.
How is the admission to the hospital?
Often the instruction is carried on the family doctor or psychiatrist / neurologist.
In rarer cases, the patient is admitted forcing (see later).
What is the period required by the treatment?
The duration of stay may be a few days, weeks or months be .
only in the course of the stay arises an estimate of the period, which is used to treat enötigt b .
It is not helpful to compare themselves with other patients, each patient is an individual.
time playing in psychiatry a minor role.
"The mental illness is not the end, which healed after a few weeks."
Why are often items such as razors, electric appliances, laptops, nail scissors,
leave etc.beim nurses?
The risk of self harm, suicide is very high in a spiritual crisis therefore be picked up all the "dangerous" items, but can any time loan problems .
laptops, cell phones, etc.sind not allowed everywhere must and may also given be.
is often deliberately made sure not to dive into virtual worlds or incriminating contacts
through emails, sms, for example, be maintained.
are on the ward there is usually a patient's phone.
Why can some stations to be received no visit?
The patient, the patient should focus on their own person and include just in the early days no incriminating contacts. There In most clinics it solid visiting hours.
After the applications, often in the afternoon, evening or on weekends visit may be received. may often children with the Station.Es are often rooms, cafeteria, etc., which are happy to receive visits kann.Der patient should not eventually become completely isolated from the environment.
may not always brought something for it should.At stations for eating disorders may often be brought no food and no alcohol addiction, of course, stations containing foods, mouthwashes, caffeine (Cola or coffee), etc.
Sometimes the staff asks danach.Also, first check with the nursing staff.
May I to during the stay at home?
Many clinics offer leaves of absence, because it is long term goal to return to their own environment.
usually not ride home on the weekends.
A vehicle may not always be driven, for insurance reasons or medication zBEbenso often is only one possible zBSamstag night / Sunday.
In rare cases the patient is discharged at short notice and re-recorded. (If the access route is very long, for example)
What therapies offer clinics in general?
many hospitals now offer a wide range of therapies. individual meetings, group therapy, art and occupational therapy, creative arts are in the station everyday routine. sport and exercise groups, often relaxation exercises, meditative exercises to reduce stress are there too.
The clinics often have a large number of physiotherapy treatments.
(mud, massage or physiotherapy)
Sportswear is bringing in the rule.
help social services to clarify zBfinanzielle difficulties, provide support for the authorities.
are at some hospital sites to trauma therapy, DBT concepts, behavior therapy.
The referring physician has the opportunity to immediately find the appropriate clinic.
The hospitals now have their own web portal and you can find on the net prior information.
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What are the different clinics?
addition to general psychiatric wards on which a broad spectrum of diseases treated, there are specialist clinics and wards of psychosomatic medicine, zBbei eating disorders, depression, anxiety or burnout syndrome.
alcohol and drug rehabilitation zBwerden on special Addiction stations and conducive behandelt.Auch in long-term treatment self-help groups like Alcoholics Anonymous can clinics recommend from personal experience.
Borderline stations often offer the dialectical-behavioral therapy. (DBT)
addition, there are also psychodynamic Psychotherapie.In general, the treatment extends over about 12 to 16 Wochen.Auch miteingeplant intervals, to test the stress at home and to practice new behaviors.
as other hospitals in the behavior therapy in the first place, such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
With Behavioral therapy (CBT) is called a spectrum of forms of psychotherapy. All these arrangements are that the self-help for the patient at the center, is being given to him for insight into causes and origins of his problems methods by the hand with which he gets along better in the future.
There is no recipe for Disease Clinic A helps B, and so several attempts weiter.Es may be necessary and that helps sometimes, a combination of therapies.
In general, the family doctor to arrange treatment, but also self-help groups can geben.Mittlerweile useful information exist in many Regions psychiatric counseling or social services.
Can I leave the station at any time?
wants to hold on No clinic patients and usually can leave the station.
You can unsubscribe to certain hours or leave of absence request.
In the beginning, or in acute danger to themselves, the station should not be left alone.
Once the patient is feeling better, he has again free output.
been forcibly admitted to, so reasons exist for the acute phase at the station and / or supervision to spend. (suicidality, self harm, etc.)
must turn the recording, are against your will, a judge ordered.
per year in Germany, now about 110,000 people to the housing laws of the countries (UBG / PsychKG) under distraint.
A treatment against the wishes of the person concerned is when there is no ability to consent of the individual only in cases of danger, of considerable danger to their own and allowed the health of other persons.
(link to PsychKG see below)
Stay on closed station is kept as short as possible, it is a measure of protection for themselves and / or Other.
Often walks offered with the staff to rely on heavy days, the station can times.
it is due to a withdrawal in the hospital, has its own rules and agreements.
How about the control of drugs, for the exit, or no output in the first week alone.
They are unfortunately difficult periods, but they are limited to a minimum of days.
Are there really "shock" or fixing the bed ?
Yes, there es.Aber: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT the old name is not already available) is used in psychiatry to treat mental disorders. The mechanism of action of ECT is to trigger an epileptic seizure by the administration of electric current on the skull of anesthetized patients. ECT is used primarily in major depressive disorder with suicidal or delusional Symptomen.Hier it is one of the most effective treatment options and may also result in previously treatment-resistant depression to a substantial improvement.
The patient is under anesthesia, and is itself a bewusstlos.Er agrees to treatment.
Certain psychiatric symptoms such as delusions, depression, especially major depressive inhibition and others are reduced significantly after a series of such applications or disappear altogether. It is thought that is affected by the release of uncontrolled electrical discharges in the brain, the metabolism of neurotransmitters and hormones so that there will be a reorganization in the nervous system is.
Is there a fix the patient's bedside?
erklärt.Sie The patient is the cause of the fixation is used to protect himself or others and does not constitute punishment dar.
case of severe agitation or threats of violence (often in psychotischemStress and anxiety), the patient is calm and the situation deeskaliert.Die fixation is as short as possible durchgeführt.Ausreichend trained personnel must be present.
The fixation is a measure involving deprivation of liberty and must be ordered a judicial and be terminated immediately if the patient is no danger to himself or others is.
In film and television shows like psychiatry as a horror scenario in which people are tortured, completely unsinnig.Diese time and their methods are certainly an eternal monument to the old Psychiatry and remember inhumane practices that belong to the past.
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What should I say just the other?
The first stay in a psychiatric always raises the question of how the environment reacts and how much they reveal of themselves.
I have had a positive experience, particularly in the past has Jahren.Der death of Robert Enke as mental illness, depression, here, on the front page of newspapers delivered to.
I hear more often that in various families are affected and at least once were under psychiatric treatment, but rather to conceal it.
Dealing with psychiatry zunehmenst is transparent and it becomes clear that it is the patient at all is "normal" people.
de-ranged, means "pushed aside" but still the man with all his abilities and characteristics to be.
I have met very interesting people with their life difficulties have, but want you to be in psychiatric treatment.
I like to answer some questions about psychiatry.
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