P03-204 - Relapses of the disease in psychotic patients due to inability to manage stressful situations

Introduction

Patients with mental disease are not in touch with their emotions, they do not recognize them and are incapable of finding alternative ways to face life difficulties.

Consequently, anxiety which evolves from stressful situations literally immobilizes them.

Objective

Our aim was to isolate the factors which create stressful situations that lead patients in relapsing.

Method

We studied patients’ inability to cope with their emotions and the stress that follows. We studied 25 patients living in the R.U. “Eurikleia”, 30 patients in follow-up and 50 patients who were hospitalized in the 3^rd Psychiatric Department of the Psychiatric Hospital of Athens.

Our therapeutic procedure was the following:

Our intervention comprised of family therapy, setting family roles boundaries, patients’ autonomy, agreement in interventions between family and the therapeutic group and patients’ encouragement to take initiatives concerning their personal life.

Results

Conclusions

Through this study the most obvious conclusion we reached at was the necessity of patients’ and their families’ re-education in order to be able to live a meaningful life.