Can children become mentally ill?

Mental illness is a disease problem that people are not unfamiliar with. Usually, young people develop mental illness because they are under too much psychological pressure. Children are very young and their thinking patterns are not well developed. Then the probability of a child developing mental illness is not very high, unless it is caused by genetic reasons. So can children become mentally ill?

The frequent occurrence of mental illness has attracted the attention of many friends. This is an extremely terrible mental illness, especially after children become ill. They are prone to serious thinking and association disorders, accompanied by symptoms of emotional disorders. During the onset of the disease, children have severe lack of thinking, and their associations are scattered or broken. The content of their thoughts is particularly bizarre, and they are prone to pathological fantasies or delusions.

Most children with mental illness will also show emotional indifference and loneliness and withdrawal, which will lead to a decrease in the child's interest and spontaneous mood swings. They will often cry or laugh for no reason or become anxious and fearful. They are usually in a state of clear consciousness, which causes the children to have serious perceptual disorders, disordered behavior, and extremely excited psychomotor activity, which hinders their growth and development.

The adaptability of children with this disorder will be seriously impaired, and they will often be seriously abnormal compared with normal children of the same age. There will be obvious changes in their learning performance, interpersonal relationships, and work ability at home and in school, which will cause the children's academic performance to decline and will damage their physical and mental health. Parents are reminded to pay attention to the occurrence of childhood mental illness and to fully understand the symptoms of the disease.

After reading the relevant content, you friends now know the symptoms of pediatric mental illness. Mental illness is not trivial. The harm caused by this disease is particularly serious and will hinder the normal development of the child. Therefore, we must pay attention to the mental changes of children and attach importance to the prevention of pediatric mental illness. Only active prevention can reduce the incidence of the disease.