Maintaining Mental Health: Understanding the Genetic Factors and Preventive Measures

2023-10-02 15:34:00

Dr. Jamal Farweez, consultant psychiatrist, stressed the importance of maintaining mental health, explaining that mental illness is a genetic disease, as 60% of mental illnesses are hereditary genetic diseases, which means that if a family member has a mental illness, it increases the possibility of any of its members being affected by the same illness. Especially ages between 15 to 35 years.

Dr. noted. During his talk on the program (The East and Other Things), Farwaiz pointed out that pressures of various kinds, whether material, educational, emotional, or social, usually cause psychological illnesses, stressing that people between the ages of 15 and 35 years should be kept as much as possible away from exposure to pressures in order to prevent the disease from appearing. He recommended, when sick symptoms appear in a person, to quickly resort to a psychiatrist, because psychological illness leads to changes in neurotransmitters, which in turn lead to the emergence of a specific disease, following which various symptoms appear, such as schizophrenia, depression, emotional detachment, obsessiveness, or the like, noting that speed of resort Treatment increases the chances of recovery.

He explained that each person has a source of psychological comfort that is different from others. There are those who find their psychological comfort in talking to others, going somewhere, or eating a certain food. He pointed out that every person must search for his psychological comfort to achieve his happiness, and avoid highlighting the problems that he faces. It causes psychological pressure.

In conclusion, he said that life is not devoid of problems, but every person must alleviate them, stressing that the idea of ​​happiness and success is the main factor behind his feeling of happiness and achieving continuous successes, while focusing on problems and failure ultimately leads to a huge amount of unhappiness and repeated failures, and thus the The choices of each of us are the main determinant of our future life.

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