Mental Health Association in Hawaii 1. Most people with mental health problems need hospitalization. Most people do not recover from mental illnesses.
Some people have bouts of disturbances.
Between episodes they can be perfectly well. When they are well they understandably resent being treated as other than normal. Like all of us, people who experience mental illnesses deserve to be judged on their own merits. Too often, they are thought of only in terms of their illness and unfairly labeled because of it. People with other disabling illnesses need help coping, but people recovering from mental illnesses can cope on their own.