“It is advisable for Balash” … a short sarcastic answer given by Dr. Yahya Al-Rakhawi, a professor of psychiatry, in response to the question, “When should I go to a psychiatrist?”, Where he said: “People have become overly aware of going to the psychiatrist. So who feels With normal sadness, he goes to the clinic and diagnoses himself as depression, and this exaggeration in going to the psychiatrists is not good unless the situation really calls for it, and there are cases that call for that, such as: hallucinations and other things, but this does not mean that any sadness you go through goes to the psychiatrist.
In his interview with Al-Youm Al-Sabea, Al-Rakhawy explained: “People used to live in the safety of God without psychiatrists, with the exception of of course serious diseases such as: assault on oneself, others, or insanity.”
He added that the frequent propaganda of the necessity to go to a psychiatrist made anyone who suffers from any natural sadness go to the doctor without real need, and this is called “psychosis of society,” meaning making emotions and feelings a burden that a person places on the psychiatrist so that the doctor should bear our responsibility towards ourselves.
He stressed that sadness is a natural feeling that we must endure and it differs from depression patients, and if you do not bear yourself in cases of sadness and frustration, you will not reach creativity and success, but the cases that require going to the psychiatrist are the inability to complete life as you were in the past or stop the things that were I used her job.
Regarding the signs of mental health, Al-Rakhawi said: There is a saying with which I completely agree with the psychologist “Freud”, which is that “mental health is to work and to love,” despite my disagreement with Freud in his thinking in general.
Interview by Dr. Yahya Al-Rakhawy (1)–
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