Iranian Journal of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Running head: MENTAL HEALTH WELL BEING
MENTAL HEALTH WELL BEING
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Introduction
Mental health can be referred to as a level of psychological well-being of a person.
Mental health affects the way we think, act and feel. It also helps to determine the ways how
stress is handled. Mental health is crucial at all the stages of life, since childhood and
adolescence via adulthood.
Psychotic disorder are a group of illness that impacts the minds of individual and affects
thinking, beliefs and behavioural patterns of an individual. Psychotic disorders usually occurs
due to psychiatrist illness like schizophrenia. In many cases, it can be caused by diseases, drug
use and medication.
This paper will discuss about the psychological recovery approach by linking with the
psychological disorder, schizophrenia. It will also shed light upon the various stages of recovery
in compliance with the modern recovery process.
Discussion
The psychological recovery approach
Psychological recovery or recovery based model is an approach, which emphasizes on
the potential of a person to recover from mental illness. According this model, recovery is
generally perceived as a personal journey rather than a single individual one. It involved
developing of security and hope, sense of self, social inclusion, coping skills, and supportive
relationships (Jacob 2015). The recovery based process is a holistic the view of people having
mental illness. The process calls for optimism, commitment from people suffering from mental
illness, the families, the mental health professionals, the social services and the community.

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Process of Recovery in mental health
The clinical recovery of Schizophrenia would involve getting rid of the symptoms,
restoring the social functioning of the patient. Patient will express thoughts and feelings in a
logical and a goal directed manner. On successful intervention, the patients will be able to
socialize. Patients with Schizophrenia normally has an altered sensory perceptions due to certain
neurobiologic changes. It is the duty of the therapist to explore how the hallucinations are
experienced by the client (Haller et al. 2014). Pharmacological intervention is an important part
of clinical recovery problem. Antipsychotic medicines can be considered as the most commonly
prescribed drugs. Drugs like chlorpromazine can be used in the therapy. Some of the other
interventions that can be used are the compliance promotion programs, supportive psychotherapy
and proper usage of the community resources.
Four crucial processes of Personal recovery from Schizophrenia is 1) Finding hope 2) Re-
establishment of the identity, 3) Finding an aim in life, 4) taking responsibilities. 5) Re-
establishment of the honor and identity. It has been found in researches that finding hope is the
main catalyst of the recovery process. It has been stated by the author, that there are three distinct
elements of hope- a clear goal, envisaging pathways to achieve the goals and believing in the
ability to pursue the goal. Another important goal is the self-identity. It is necessary to accept the
illnesses a part of own self in a spirit of growth. There are certain recovery oriented services that
extend beyond reduction of the psychiatric symptoms and focus on assisting individuals to
reconstruct their lives in a proper and meaningful way (Mathur et al. 2014).