Mental Illness Treatment

What is the Evolution of Medical Treatment in Mental Illness?

It is important to learn the evolution of the medical treatment in mental illness.

Probably your parents or grand parents who had mental illness used to take these medications to manage mental illness. In the 1940s and 1950s, the development of three new approaches to treatment helped support the growing recognition that mental illness is a medical condition:

  • Electroconvulsive Therapy
  • Insulin Therapy
  • Drug Therapy

Electroconvulsive Therapy
What is Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)? Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a method in which electrical currents are passed through the brain to trigger a seizure. The positioning of electroconvulsive therapy relies on treating severe depression and mental illness.

Insulin Therapy
What is insulin therapy? It was a very common practice in the past to treat patients who are suffering from depressions and for those who have schizophrenia.

Drug Therapy
What is the treatment of Mental Illness? Today current available treatments including psychotherapeutic medications are significantly improving patient’s severe mental illness.

First Schizophrenia Treatments
When was the schizophrenia treatments first introduced? As the first schizophrenia medication, chlorpromazine was synthesized in 1950. Thus 1950 was the introduction year for the new medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Acute Mental Illness
What is The Acute Nature of Mental Illness? The discussion should begin with a discussion from a physician’s perspective of the importance of distinguishing acute and chronic phases of mental illness.

Chronic Mental Illness
What is the Chronic Nature of Mental Illness? Mental illnesses are chronic diseases that persist for a long time. According to the definition of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, a chronic disease is one lasting 3 months or more…

Mental Illness Treatment Factors
What personal and social challenges affect the treatment of mental illness? Why Physician-Patient Confidentiality is important for patients with mental illness? Why Past History of Mental Illness is important?…