Hasna is 18 years old. He rubbed his hands and left it raw because he washed it almost 100 times a day with gel. He spent a bottle a day. He insisted that his whole family leave their shoes at the door when they enter. He did not share meals, he locked himself with his plate in his room. He, of course, did not allow them to enter his room, whose floor he cleaned every day with bleach. When he watched TV with the other, he did so with a mask and gloves.
Hasna He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. I suffered from it before the pandemic, but now it has become almost uncontrollable. Hasna is one of those 30% of OCD patients who experienced a significant worsening of their symptoms. OCD was probably the disorder that increased the most during the pandemic.
However, I’m surprised that in the campaign Tomorrow can be you – a series of interviews with personalities from sports, music, literature and television – none of the interviewers suffer from OKS. Everyone is talking about anxiety and depression.
Why? Because a time has come when suffering from anxiety and depression no longer carries a stigma, it is something that is socially legitimized. And the same can be said in a way of bipolar disorder. Since Raquel Mosquera announced her illness, two other celebrities have dared to talk about it, despite the fact that TBP is still viewed with some suspicion.
Stigma
But, Would anyone dare to say that they suffer from OCD, schizophrenia, borderline disorder, schizotypal personality, delusional disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or any other personality disorder (paranoid, avoidant, narcissistic, dependent, histrionic … you name it)?
I know at least two very famous people who were institutionalized for two acute psychotic episodes, with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. One said he was admitted to the hospital for anxiety, the other for anxiety and depression. They lied because they knew full well that their disorder carries a stigma and that if they tell the truth, it will be difficult for them to work when they leave the clinic
This is why, when it comes to mental health, it seems that there are some first-class patients, who suffer cool diseases, to call it something. Diseases of the artist, of the creative person: Generalized anxiety disorder and depression. And then there are others diseases that immediately put you on the side of dangerous insane and of which it is better not to speak.
Secret
I came very close to a case of a woman who suffered from bipolar disorder. PTB has a very high heritability, greater than 70%, and both his mother and uncle suffered from it. But the panic that they would take her for crazy made her he would deny it and hide it from him her illness even to her husband. She was, like all bipolar women, advised to be supervised by her psychiatrist in case of pregnancy, as pregnancy usually causes manic crises. But since she hid her illness, she could not go to a psychiatrist. The result was a psychotic break in which she claimed that her husband’s ex-wife was going to show up at the hospital to steal the child.
None of this would have happened if he had not hidden his TBP, because women with PTB can lead a perfectly functional life if they receive medication or monitored, such as diabetic or hypothyroid women.
That’s why I think if we are going to talk about mental health, we need to talk about more than just anxiety and depression. If not, we stigmatize many mental illnesses and condemn them to life in prison.
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And the one who condemns living to keep a secret lives a life locked up in a prison.
A spiritual prison.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com