The psychosocial counseling creates opportunity to do something in this issue. Counseling deals with the inner world of the mind, mental conflict, the emotion and depression of the mind. If we want to challenge this mental sickness of the society, psychosocial counseling can help us a lot.

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Why does psychosocial counselling work?

The human relationship between the counsellor and the client is the most important factor in counselling.

We all need to have a witness for what has happened to us in our life and what we have experienced. To see and experience empathy from the counsellor helps to connect to own feelings. It helps to reassure people that their feelings and the experiences are true and had a severe impact on their lives.

Many clients with psychosocial problems retreat and are slowly getting in a social isolation within their families. Often they do not want to burden the other members of the family with their experiences. Those experiences might be connected with feelings of shame. For instance, having lost control in a very difficult situation. We all know the suffering of being separated and of feeling alone. In some magic moments the walls of separation break-down. When psychosocial counselling works the client again might be able to connect to his own self and to his social environment as well as his potential and possibilities. This are the moment we are searching for in psychosocial counselling.

The aims of psychosocial counselling

• Giving security & privacy
• Non-gudgemental
• Calming down
• Giving support
• Providing trust and confidentiality
• Giving time to listen
• Asking carefully
• Naming the problems without fear
• Discovering the resources
• Activating the social network
• Finding together a new orientation

Mental Illness

United State of America drew up the following characteristics of mental ill person:

• Always worried
• Unable to concentrate because of unrecognized reasons;
• Continually unhappy without justified cause;
• Lose temperament easily and often;
• Troubled by regular insomnia;
• Wide fluctuations in moods from depression to elation, back to depression, which incapacitate the person;
• Continually dislike to be with people;
• Upset if routine of life is disturbed;
• Children consistently get on him nerves;
• afraid without real cause;
• Always right and other person always wrong;
• Numerous aches and pains for which has no physical cause