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What is mental illness ?  -  Mental illness facts from the Canadian Mental Health Association ... Schizoaffective disorder: A serious mental illness that affects about one in 100 people with  ...

What Is Mental Illness ?  - A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts the way a person's thinks, feels and interacts with others, according to the National Alliance on ...

The Stigma of Mental Illness - However, I still hate the term “mental illness.” Those are not words anyone wants to own and it focuses on what is wrong. It is riddled in stigma because it comes from the legal world, the criminally insane, and bad movies that paint the mentally ill as evil or dangerous. I have no problem saying I’m dealing with depression, anxiety, PTSD, suicidal thoughts, mental health challenges etc., but I’m never going to proudly raise my hand to the term mentally ill. I prefer to work on my mental wellness, which is something every human being can get behind. We can have mental wellness challenges in stead of mental illness diagnose s and labels. There is no battle or suffering when the focus is on your wellness. I find mental wellness and mental health as much more tolerable terms , even empowering.

To blame a shooting on mental illness is to unfairly stigmatize millions - And once again the mental health of the shooter is at the core of the national debate. What do we do about mental illness and guns? Is there really an answer to this perplexing and confounding question? Perhaps we should look at an even more fundamental question. Exactly what is this thing called ...

What Is the Connection Between Personality and Mental Illness ? - One of the cruel things about mental illness is how randomly it can strike. There's often no rhyme or reason to it: Some people endure almost ...

Is the theory that each episode of mental illness makes another more likely true? - It's a fact that mental illness can debilitate a person's life just as acutely as physical conditions. What is less understood, however, is what exactly ...

if Schizophrenia is not a mental illness then what is it? - This disorder effects mental capacity to make decisions and there execution under ... Schizophrenia is a life long very serious disease of the brain.

What is Cotard's syndrome? The rare mental illness which makes people think they are dead  - It is not classified under the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) but is recognised as a "disease of human health" in the ...

Mental Health : What is dependent personality disorder and how is it  - Dependent personality disorder is a form of mental illness that affects many individuals of all ages, social backgrounds, genders, and professions. It is diagnosed  ...

Robin Williams's suicide -- what is the link between creativity and mental illness ?  - This however, reignites the old debate about the link between creativity and mental illness . Various studies seem to suggest that people who have a ...

Mental illness and gun laws: What you may not know about the complexities - Besides sending thoughts and prayers for the victims, a common theme – especially when the shooter is not a Muslim – is discussing warning signs of mental illness , and its role in the actions of the murderer. Mental illness is often scapegoated to deflect public outrage about access to assault rifles that ...

What is wrong with spring and mental illness ?  - He is crazy and has a mental disorder .” Several guys push him away from Alimaa and stand next to him. They hold him and try to push him out of the  ...

What is wrong with spring and mental illness ?  - He is crazy and has a mental disorder .” Several guys push him away from Alimaa and stand next to him. They hold him and try to push him out of the  ...

People With Mental Illness Should Get What They Deserve  - Do you think that 12-year olds who may have serious mental illness should be tried as adults instead of receiving treatment? That could be what is ...

Is caffeine withdrawal really a mental illness? I had a hard time believing that caffeine withdrawal is now classified as a mental illness in the new DSM-5 manual of psychiatric diagnoses, despite what news reports have proclaimed. But it is indeed listed there under the heading “Caffeine-Related ...

Nearer, my Goddess, to Thee: Divine Communion and Mental Illness  - What follows is not an attempt to valorize mental illness , nor to stigmatize it further. It is a snippet of one woman's story of mental illness in religious ...

Opinion: New network to help teens suffering from mental illness We were friends and classmates many decades ago. What has drawn us together once more is that our families have both been touched by mental illness . And in both cases, the outcome of that mental illness has been and continues to be tragic and ...

The Myth Of Mental Illness And Gun Violence  - And that is what is happening with the way we talk about mental illness and random gun violence. Thankfully, a just published report in the Annals of ...

Being transgender isn't a mental illness . What's sick is a society that treats it that way  - Forget science – a Kansas lawmaker thinks he knows what makes people transgender: mental illness . In a speech attacking the Obama ...

What to say when someone's struggling with mental illness  - The Make It OK advertising campaign, including posters like the one pictured, is encouraging people to open up about mental illness , providing ideas on what to