Brook Black Mental

The sprouting of first medicines antipsychotics in the decade of 1950 helped very in the treatment of the mental sick people, in special the psychotic ones, however, in the same way, the abusive use of these medicines, the person leaves the Hospice more insane person of what entered. Beyond what, some of these remedies bring as collateral effect, amongst others, the affective embotamento, giving the impression by that it takes who them is with sick person aspect. In the decade of 1990 it had a farmacolgica revolution, appearing the calls antipsychotics of 2 generation, which, beyond not causing the affective embotamento, can also improve this aspect. Moreover, it comes appearing each time more antidepressants and efficient stabilizers of the mood and with few collateral effect. However, all these medications still are very expensive, and therefore not used the sufficient. This historical panorama in the aid to understand the stigma that still persist in relation to the mental sick person and the negative vision that if has of the psychiatric hospitals.

In this direction, some change had that to be taken in relation the politics of mental health, and in fact it had> changes. The trend currently is of if diminishing the stream beds in Psychiatric Hospitals (many hospitals already had been disactivated), and of if opening the CAPS (Center of Psicossocial Attendance), that in the theory they would bring more humanity to the treatment of the mental sick person, beyond a work of ressocializao of the patient. Really, many benefits come if obtaining.