• Mental illnesses, also known as psychiatric disorders, are often inaccurately portrayed in the media. Films, television programs, books, magazines, and...
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  • A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that...
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    Rethink Mental Illness Is a British charity that seeks to improve the lives of people severely mentally ill people. Please read the google reviews for...
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  • Serious mental illness (SMI) is characterized as any mental health condition that impairs seriously or severely from one to several significant life activities...
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  • The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct is a 1961 book by the psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, in which the author criticizes...
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  • depressive disorder. The earliest known record of mental illness in ancient China dates back to 1100 B.C. Mental disorders were treated mainly under Traditional...
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    for mental disorders, or mental illnesses, which are a component of mental health. In 2019, about 970 million people worldwide suffered from a mental disorder...
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  • Euthanasia for mental illness involves a physician intentionally ending the life of a patient who has requested euthanasia due to a psychiatric condition...
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  • Mental illness denial or mental disorder denial is a form of denialism in which a person denies the existence of mental disorders. Both serious analysts...
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  • , 2nd ed., 1999, ISBN 0-88048-964-2. Otto F. Wahl, Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness, Piscataway, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8135-2213-7...
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    Mental illness in ancient Rome was recognized in law as an issue of mental competence, and was diagnosed and treated in terms of ancient medical knowledge...
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  • International Classification of Diseases (ICD). A mental disorder, also known as a mental illness, mental health condition, or psychiatric disorder, is characterized...
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  • Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness is a 2024 book by Jonathan Haidt which argues that the spread of smartphones, social media and overprotective parenting...
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  • Works of fiction dealing with mental illness include: The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, 1908 children's book by Beatrix Potter. Tom...
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    with a mental health disorder. The term may refer to fictional characters who exhibit traits of mental illness or to participants in mental health-inspired...
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  • Thank God for Mental Illness is the fifth studio album by American psychedelic rock band The Brian Jonestown Massacre. After releasing Take It from the...
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    [citation needed] Mental illnesses have risk factors, for instance including unequal parental treatment, adverse life events and drug use in depression, migration...
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  • The appearance of mental illness in Middle-earth has been discussed by scholars of literature and by psychiatrists. Middle-earth is the fantasy world...
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    attention to mental illness and its major effects on people's lives worldwide. In addition, this day provides an opportunity for mental health professionals...
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    Conceptually, mental insanity also is associated with the biological phenomenon of contagion (that mental illness is infectious) as in the case of copycat...
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  • 50 Signs of Mental Illness: A Guide to Understanding Mental Health is a 2005 book by psychiatrist James Whitney Hicks published by Yale University Press...
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  • that religion plays in health, others have shown that religious beliefs, practices, and experiences may be linked to mental illnesses of various kinds (mood...
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    The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists,...
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    with chronic illness that can support each other. Spoons are a visual representation used as a unit of measure to visualize the mental and physical energy...
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    attaining mental health and wellness. It also aims to draw attention to suicide, which can be precipitated by some mental illnesses. Additionally, Mental Health...
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    severe mental illness across western Europe: What can be generalized from current knowledge about differences in provision, costs and outcomes of mental health...
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  • co-occurring disorders (COD) or dual pathology) is the condition of having a mental illness and a comorbid substance use disorder. There is considerable debate...
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  • the illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness."...
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  • (mental illness or mental health difficulties) in a domiciliary setting, instead of a psychiatric hospital (asylum). The array of community mental health...
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  • Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America is a book by Robert Whitaker published in 2010 by Crown. Whitaker asks why the number...
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