How to deal with teenagers’ internet mental illness

Teenagers’ internet mental illness has become more and more common in recent years. So what exactly causes these teenagers’ internet mental illness? How to deal with teenagers’ internet mental illness below? Mental illness is what I want to share with you, and everyone is welcome to browse.

First of all, teenagers have a natural and spontaneous psychological tendency to actively explore the outside world. Be eager to face new things. Chatting, making friends, and dating online are a way for teenagers to gain understanding. Teenagers are mentally immature and often look out of curiosity at unhealthy websites and games. As a result, they get out of control and become addicted to them.

Secondly, young people in school are under great pressure to study and suffer from long-term mental stress. Obstacles and confusion often occur in interpersonal communication. In addition, there is often a lack of communication between children and parents. All these lead to adolescents being in a period of physical and psychological distress, and they need a way to vent their long-term depression. The Internet is undoubtedly the more convenient way.

Thirdly, our country’s current sex education lags behind. Teenagers are becoming physically mature and their sexual desires are increasing day by day, but their sexual psychology is extremely immature, and there is a general sense of mystery about sex. Driven by this mentality, it is extremely easy to be tempted by unhealthy websites and games and cannot extricate themselves.

Teenagers are addicted to the Internet, especially pornographic websites, which is extremely harmful. First of all, they will get lost in the virtual world, close themselves off, be separated from the real world, and be unwilling to interact with people face to face. Over time, it will affect the normal cognition, emotion and psychological positioning of teenagers. It may also lead to the splitting of their personality, which is not conducive to the shaping of healthy personality and correct outlook on life in young people. Secondly, being obsessed with the Internet may also make teenagers mentally addicted. Once you leave the Internet, psychological problems and diseases such as mental disorders and abnormalities will occur. Manifestations in daily life and study include abnormal behavior, trance, talking nonsense, and an increasingly weird personality. In this regard, we must actively educate and guide.

1. Parents should actively communicate with their children on an equal footing and strengthen spiritual care for their children.

Parents should actively communicate with their children on an equal footing to understand their inner world. Understand the child's needs and wants and provide spiritual care, understanding and comfort to the child. For example, parents can often chat with their children about things that interest them, participate in meaningful activities that interest them, respect their children's cognition, satisfy their children's need for spiritual love, and reduce their desire to go online.

2. Actively take measures to divert children's attention and guide teenagers' thirst for knowledge on the right track.

Parents and teachers should try to guide teenagers in the direction of their pursuit of knowledge. Starting from the positive psychological characteristics of young people, we help them set ambitious goals, cultivate their noble sentiments, and strengthen their self-control. For example, the school regularly carries out various cultural and sports activities, hosts various interest groups for a long time, organizes various special training classes based on students' specialties and interests, and actively encourages them to participate in social practice activities and various useful summer camps. Consciously divert young people’s attention away from the Internet.

3. Carry out normal sex knowledge education to eliminate the mystery and depression of sex among teenagers

Parents and teachers can educate and explain some sex knowledge to them through appropriate methods. . Regarding the sexual physiological phenomena and sexual confusion that appear in children as they grow up, you must not be perfunctory because you feel it is inconvenient to talk about it. In terms of sex education, schools should promptly offer formal sex knowledge education courses to eliminate the mystery and depression of sex among teenagers. Let teenagers have a correct understanding of sex to eliminate their enthusiasm for pornographic websites.

4. Teenagers should strengthen their psychological quality and control.

First of all, teenagers should establish a firm and correct goal as a motivation to cultivate their own control and endurance. Strengthen the cultivation of one's own sentiments, actively communicate with the outside world about some confusions in life, and seek external support such as parents, teachers, friends, and examples.

If teenagers want to go online, they can consciously change their goals, such as reading a book or participating in some activities they love. If you cannot quit your Internet addiction immediately, you can gradually reduce the number and time you spend online.

When surfing the Internet, you should consciously overcome your curiosity and desires and avoid pornographic websites. If you have difficulty controlling yourself, you can also involve your parents to supervise yourself.

5. Families and schools should communicate regularly and establish an effective monitoring system to control the work and rest time of children with Internet addiction. Use this to build a good external environment

From a psychological point of view, the external environment has a significant impact on the personality formation and development of teenagers. For teenagers with Internet addiction (in developed countries, those who surf the Internet for four hours a day are called Internet addiction) it is essential to find a psychologist.

Extended reading:

Prevention of adolescent mental illness is far more important than treatment

Insufficient investigation and lack of mechanism to promote it

?Actually, the most important thing about psychological problems and mental illnesses is not treatment, but prevention. However, so far, there is no comprehensive epidemiological survey data on the mental health status of primary and secondary school students in our city, and some are only data from psychological outpatient clinics. ?Xu Luqin said that because there is no in-depth investigation and understanding, the city's mental health work has no clear direction and no focus. Every task must determine the focus on the basis of investigation, otherwise it will inevitably waste manpower and material resources. ?So the current focus is to carry out epidemiological surveys of mental disorders in children and adolescents. Only then can we clarify the focus of mental health education and formulate relevant policies and work plans accordingly.

In addition, due to the lack of effective mechanisms to promote and investigate, our city lacks a prevention and treatment mechanism for primary and secondary school students to deal with sudden catastrophic crisis events, and a lack of understanding of student psychological disorders such as ADHD, Internet dependence, and adolescent mood disorders. , research and treatment of school phobia, etc.

Xu Luqin said that currently all the institutions in society that are capable of carrying out mental health education, publicity and counseling for primary and secondary school students provide free services. It is impossible for long-term free services to cover those in need, and it is not conducive to sustainable development. ?In May 2014, the Third People's Hospital of the city was entrusted to establish the "Jiangmen Mental Health Counseling Center for Primary and Secondary School Students." Currently, this "municipal institution" only relies on the hospital's own resources to operate without corresponding financial support. And if the competent authorities are unclear, it will be difficult to shoulder the heavy trust if things continue like this. ?

Teachers are tight and the team is unprofessional

Fan Qiuting is a full-time psychology teacher at Nonglin Primary School. After graduating from Guangzhou University in 2011 with a major in psychology, she came to the school to take charge of the mental health class. The school's psychological consultation room of more than 20 square meters is her office. It is relatively simple. The school is not large and we do not have a standardized psychological consultation room. ? She said a little embarrassed. ?In recent years, the psychological education in Jiangmen schools has improved a lot. I remember when I first came here, many schools did not have professional psychological teachers. ?

In fact, what Fan Qiuting said is "much better" are mostly schools in the central urban area of ??Pengjiang, while many towns and rural schools do not yet have full-time professional psychological teachers. As of June 2014, 521 primary and secondary schools in our city were equipped with 114 full-time professional teachers, which was far from meeting the needs. Even the few primary and secondary schools with better conditions in urban areas can barely meet the needs.

Because there are no full-time psychological teachers, the psychological consultation room of Huanghuangwan Central Primary School in Hetang Town is staffed by 10 part-time teachers in turns. The main problem with school psychological work is funding. In addition to the lack of teachers, there are many facilities and equipment. Can't keep up; psychological group counseling classes often cannot be carried out well due to space constraints. ? said Zi Yin, a part-time psychology teacher at the school. ? Let our teachers take mental health education classes. Some teachers joked: Our teachers also have psychological problems, who will provide us with psychological counseling? Wu Jinding, the vice principal of the school, said with a smile.

There are very few full-time teachers engaged in mental health education in primary and secondary schools in our city, and most of them are class teachers part-time; Pengjiang District currently has 23 social work service centers, but among them, those with second-level psychological counselor qualifications There are also very few social work agencies. ?Mental health education and psychological counseling are very ideological and technical tasks. If they are solely carried out by non-professionals, the quality of psychological counseling will inevitably be low, and some improper measures may even lead to negative consequences.

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?Face? is causing trouble, and there are misunderstandings

Although most schools are equipped with psychological counseling rooms, the utilization rate is not high, especially in primary schools, because psychological counseling is not required There are prejudices and misunderstandings. When children encounter problems or confusion, they rarely take the initiative to seek help from psychological counselors. The psychological counseling rooms of some schools only receive an average of 2 or 3 students per month, and some even only have a few students per semester, and most of them are booked by the class teacher.

?Many students still have prejudices and a sense of mystery about psychological counseling. Some students do not know what kind of problems they should seek psychological help for, and some students dare not enter the psychological counseling room because they are afraid that their classmates will say that they are psychopathic. . ?In this regard, Huang Peihua, vice principal of Jianghua Primary School, said.

Wu Jinding believes that at present, the psychological consultation rooms and full-time psychological teachers in most schools do not play their due role, especially in rural schools. In addition to the misunderstandings of students and parents, schools do not pay high enough attention, lack of teachers, limited financial investment, and the impact of various activities, etc., are all reasons for this current situation. ?In the past few years, we have been organizing mental health education for students, but in fact more students have this need, but this issue has not attracted the attention of parents. It is far from enough to rely solely on the school’s political and educational office and brigade department to carry out education. of. ?

?In addition, it is difficult to guarantee our class hours. Students have more than 30 classes every week. In addition to the main class, they are also required to have a safety education class and a Young Pioneers activity every week. There are many things like this, so they become soldiers to cover up the water and the earth. You insist on having mental health classes every week, okay, which one should give way? Wu Jinding said.

In addition, we have always emphasized that the education of primary and secondary school students requires the integration of school, family, and society. However, the current status quo is that most psychological education is still limited to schools, and the integration of family and society is , especially social resources have not yet been integrated to play a role. ;