The pain of the? Innominado is the pain of these people who have been labeled and labeled dangerous, strange, eccentric, harmful and misunderstood by people who don’t even bother to meet them. It is the pain of those who have the scarlet writing of mental health. diagnosis that condemns them to a life full of misunderstanding.
These are the individuals we refer to on the street: he is the madman of the city, his eccentric neighbor, the strange lord of his street. They are not considered people, it is a set of disqualifications perpetuated over the years, which they have stolen. humanity in the eyes of others. They don’t have a accurate diagnosis, they’re people with no identity.
- Maybe you’re so used to hearing these skills that you haven’t stopped thinking about how the person who listens to you feels.
- You might even think she’s laughing because she finds it as funny as you do.
- But maybe she laughed because she no longer had the strength to show herself to the one who judged her with a simple look and disqualified her from being different.
- How would you feel if you received these insults or disqualifications with so little empathy?.
“We should not label things black or white, but strive to perceive them as black and white depending on the situation. Or, like gray, red, blue, yellow? Having good or bad features doesn’t mean being a good person or a bad person. Anyone who tents to label the people you know will probably develop a mania for evaluating themselves in absolutist terms. ?Albert Ellis?
At first, they thought that if they had an accurate diagnosis, they could get the proper treatment and solve their problems, but in most cases, this damn label that links them to mental illness is more of a burden than a solution.
It is a drag because in the eyes of society they become dangerous, aggressive, uncontrollable and unreliable people, there is no more work for them, there is no hope of a better life, because this label has condemned them to exile from the different, the forgotten.
There is nothing but the pain of the unnominated, of those who have lost their dreams and hopes. Society demands its restitution. But how, if that same society judges them and doesn’t give them the opportunity to prove their worth and everything they can do.
“It’s pathetic that we can’t live with things we don’t understand. Everything has to be labeled, explained and deconstructed. Even if it’s completely inexplicable. “Chuck Palahniuk?
But the hell of the forgotten does not end there, they also feel marginalized by the health system itself, although there are treatments for different types of pathologies, do not have access to these treatments and lose hope of a better life.
According to some studies, for a condition as well known as depression, only 62% of people had access to adequate psychological treatment. Depression is treated only with medication, either by psychiatric services or by primary care physicians. The treatment of choice for depression, according to the World Health Organization, involves both drug treatment and psychological therapy.
Besides, when we complain about health cuts, we always forget about mental health, why do we think this is something that’s far from us, that it’s a weird thing, or that such weird and different things happen to them?But the fact is, it’s not like that: one in five people will develop a mental disorder throughout their lives.
In addition, the number of suicides doubles that of those killed in road accidents; on the other hand, the number of antidepressants consumed quadrupled, but this has not decreased the number of suicides over the years, on the contrary, it is increasing.
Does this mean psychotropic drugs are useless?Instead, medications may be helpful, but they are more supportive than a solution. Even in cases of mild and moderate depression, psychological treatment works well and reduces the time of use of medications. It is in the most severe depression, that patients benefit the most from the combination of psychological and pharmacological treatments.
According to the review of some scientific articles published above, psychological treatment should be the first-line treatment for the treatment of anxiety, before the use of medications, but due to the shortage of clinical psychologists in public hospitals, this treatment is rarely accessed.
Speaking of the nameless, of the forgotten, we cannot forget the people who are the only ones who do not judge them and stay by their side, those people who fight every day to prevent the world from being a hostile place for them. that behind each patient lies the pain of a family that often feels judged and misunderstood.
Because many of those who tend to call people harmless classifiers, when referring to the mentally ill, blame the families for their illness, we do not provide adequate support and treatment, and they are also judged.
We can no longer label the forgotten and cause them so much suffering. We need to learn about different mental disorders before we have preconceived and often incorrect ideas about them. Learn before judging and, most importantly, put yourself in your place: there’s no other way if you really want to help him.