School depression - need sharing
(Baonghean.vn) - School age with many changes in psychology and physiology makes children easily affected by many influences from studying, friends and other relationships. At this age, children need sharing and positive encouragement to avoid negative psychological effects and limit the risk of depression.
Stories recorded in the hospital
In early December, a 17-year-old female student currently in grade 11 at a public high school in Nghe An had to be hospitalized for treatment at Nghe An Mental Hospital. At her age, she would normally be treated in the Pediatrics - Geriatrics department. However, because her illness had severe symptoms, even suicidal thoughts, she was transferred to the Female Mental Health Department.
After nearly 2 weeks of treatment, the patient changed from a withdrawn, sad, and depressed person to a positive one, cooperating with the doctor during the examination. She also became more open when she started sharing her thoughts.
Accompanying her child during the treatment at Nghe An Mental Hospital, Ms. Nguyen Thi L. said that she was heartbroken when she had to bring her child to the hospital in an abnormal mental state. Previously, the family was subjective and did not see any unusual signs in their child because they saw that the child still went to school, ate, played, and talked normally every day.
The abnormal signs were only discovered 4 months ago when the family saw that the child was lazy to study, used the phone all day and closed the door in the room. Fearing that the child was not studying well, the mother scolded the child and deliberately took the phone, but the child reacted, even lying on the floor. Worried about the child's health, the family took the child to Nghe An General Hospital and Bach Mai Hospital but still did not know the child's condition because during the examination, the child asked the mother to go outside.
Recently, her illness has gotten worse and worse, sometimes she can't control her emotions, so her family decided to take her to the hospital for treatment. After being hospitalized, she also found out that her child was depressed...
Through the examination and treatment process at Nghe An Mental Hospital, this parent also said: Actually, my child may have had abnormal psychological developments since grade 8 when the family sent him to study with his aunt in Dak Lak. At that time, the changing living environment combined with an overly strict aunt made him always depressed. In high school, he was often teased, criticized and isolated by his classmates, making his illness even more severe. Meanwhile, his parents and siblings did not often share and support him, so his condition became worse and worse, with a state of inferiority, guilt, anxiety, fear, boredom...
Another case is also being treated by doctors at Nghe An Mental Hospital. The patient is currently in grade 11 at a specialized school in Vinh city with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This disease appeared in this patient 3 or 4 years ago with many quite strange symptoms. For example, this patient is often obsessed with the number 7 and when doing anything, including studying, playing or participating in activities, he tries to do it 7 times in a row. This greatly affects him in the learning process, for example, he has to write a poem 7 times before he can express it in a different way. His family has also taken him to many places for treatment but the disease has not improved.
This patient did not receive inpatient treatment but requested outpatient treatment. However, what we are concerned about is that as the patient goes up in education and the pressure of studying increases, the disease tends to appear more and more and will affect his health quite a bit. If the disease persists, it can lead to many other consequences. This patient also admitted that he is under a lot of pressure regarding his performance because the learning environment at the specialized school is quite heavy.
School disease
Since the beginning of the year, Nghe An Mental Hospital has received 144 patients under 18 years old for examination and inpatient treatment with many mental symptoms.mental disorderin school age. The number is not much compared to the proportion of students, but this also shows that psychological illnesses in school age are no longer rare. Among these, there are many students whose illnesses have become severe and have had suicidal thoughts.
Speaking more about this, Dr. Tran Dinh Ngoc - Head of the Department of Psychiatry - Nghe An Psychiatric Hospital said: The number of patients admitted to our hospital is getting younger and younger, the majority are from 14 to 23 years old, many of whom are depressed due to stress and school violence. It is worth mentioning that the number of students in urban areas suffering from depression is higher than in rural areas, because they may be under more pressure to study, they do not have time to play, to regenerate energy. Besides, they are affected by many external factors such as playing games, social networks and many other social relationships.
In fact, the number of students being treated in hospitals is only a small number. Meanwhile, the number of students suffering from mental illness and depression in schools is also increasing. Moreover, there have been cases where the illness was already severe when discovered or the students had committed negative actions such as suicide and could not be saved in time.
At Nam Yen Thanh High School (Yen Thanh), a group of students have recently been working on a project on supporting students to overcome psychological problems and depression. The project was based on the fact that some students in the school have begun to show abnormal psychological symptoms in terms of behavior, speech, and conduct, and are at risk of affecting their health and development.
School psychology plays a very important role in maintaining and stabilizing the psychological state of students, helping them to think, reflect and perceive surrounding issues correctly. At our school, we always thoroughly understand the homeroom teachers, class committees and school unions to regularly grasp the students' thoughts. If there are any unusual signs, it is necessary to inform the school and parents to have solutions to support and help.
Through many years of working as a homeroom teacher and manager, teacher Nguyen Thi Vung - Vice Principal of Dai Son Secondary School (Do Luong) and her colleagues have also carried out an innovative project on solutions to improve psychological disorders in students' learning and life.
Through the analysis process from reality, teacher Nguyen Thi Vung added that: School depression is increasingly evident and becoming more common, because at school age, students are easily affected by surrounding factors. When under too much pressure from family, friends, achievements, ..., students tend to think negatively. To limit this situation, I think that psychological counseling plays a particularly important role. Thereby, helping students practice life skills, strengthen their will, confidence, courage, have appropriate attitudes in social relationships and improve their personality. At the same time, detecting and consulting to help students have appropriate solutions, minimizing possible negative impacts.
Regarding psychological disorders and depression in school-age children, Dr. Tran Dinh Ngoc said that it can be easily detected with typical symptoms such as behavioral disorders, that is, children's sleep is not guaranteed, they cannot sleep. Eating is sometimes irregular, feeling like eating is not delicious... In addition, children also have other symptoms such as feelings of boredom, reduced interests even though they used to like shopping, like beauty, like sports, reduced activities, reduced energy, do not want to work. In addition, children have symptoms such as reduced learning ability, looking at everything with a negative eye, self-consciousness, not wanting to go to crowded places, shaking hands and sweating.
For students with the above symptoms, Dr. Ngoc recommends that, in addition to going to reputable medical facilities for examination, health check-up and treatment, the most important thing is the family's concern: For school-age children, the most important thing is the concern of parents, the more closely parents communicate, the more comfortable and open the child will be. We should not see our children as children who need to be taught, but see them as friends to guide them from an adult perspective. In addition, we should spend time for our children to be comfortable, create time for them to exercise and be physically active so that they are healthy and have a basis for emotional improvement.
