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Mental illness
* All mental illnesses involve psychotic episodes.
* Many mental illnesses are characterized by certain forms of unwanted automatic behaviour
  - chronic and debilitating
  - widespread
  - begin during childhood or the teenage years
* Many mental illnesses have their basis in nutrition, especially niacin deficiency
  - roots in chemical imbalances
* Most mental illness is chronic.
* Most mental illnesses are chronic with exacerbations and periods of remissions
  - hereditary and some are chemically related
  - have definite causes and require care and treatment
  - require treatments
  - run in families and are due to genetic predisposition
* Some mental illnesses are due to chemical imbalances in the brain
  - more prevalent in some families, suggesting a hereditary link
* abounds and some women are committing suicide by taking caustic soda.
* accounts for more than half the total youth disease burden to the community.
* affect the brain, the most complex organ in the human body.
* affects all ages, ethnic groups and genders
  - approximately one in four people throughout their lifespan
  - every aspect of an individual's life and can have far-reaching consequences
  - hundreds of millions of people nationwide
  - more than half of the elderly population in the United States
  - most extended American families
* affects one of four families in America
  - out of four families in America
  - virtually every social aspect of the community
* afflicts a large part of the population.
* appear to undermine the concept of freewill.
* are biological brain diseases which interfere with normal brain chemistry
  - disorders that can be treated successfully
  - conditions wherein treatment exists
  - biologically-based brain disorders
* are brain diseases, biologically based
  - disorders, treatment works and is affordable and discrimination is wrong
  - common and treatable
  - commons
  - destructive, disabling, and all too often, lethal
  - devastating
  - diseases of the brain, an organ of the body
  - disorders affecting one or more functions of the mind
  - extremely varied
  - health problems
  - just like many other illnesses
* are more common than cancer and heart disease combined
  - or heart disease
  - cancer, diabetes, or heart disease
  - physical illnesses
* are real health conditions
  - illnesses that affect real people from all walks of life
* are real, common, and treatable
  - diagnosable and treatable
  - seen as the result of evil spirits and are treated with prayer
* biological brain disease which interferes with normal brain chemistry
* brain disease that can be treated and managed very successfully.
* can KILL.
* can affect anyone at any time
  - anyone, regardless of their age, economic status, race or gender
  - family, work or social activities
* can affect people of any age, including children and young teens
  - race, or walk of life
* can affect persons of all ages and can occur in any family
  - any age - children, adolescents, adults and the elderly
* can affect persons of any age, and they can occur in any family
  - including children and adolescents
  - race, religion, or income
  - also impair mental functioning
* can be a bar to keeping a driving licence
  - just as debilitating and life threatening as physical diseases
  - cause temporary loss of capacity
  - devastate an entire family
* can happen to anyone
  - children, teens, adults, or older adults
  - impact individuals at any and all ages
  - occur in anyone, at any time, and it requires adequate and appropriate care
  - put people in mortal danger
  - result in a lessening capacity for coping with ordinary demands of life
  - strike any family
* cause prejudice.
* causes a disturbance in thinking, feeling, and relating
  - lack of symmetry to the oval shape of the lower mental aura
* chemical imbalance in the brain.
* comes in many forms.
* common affliction.
* comprise a set of clinical syndromes of bewildering complexity and suffering.
* creeps into one's life slowly.
* deeply uncomfortable subject for people.
* develop during the life of a person.
* disease and can be treated.
* disease of the brain and can be stabilized with proper care and treatment
  - which can, and does, bankrupt families
* disorder of the functioning of the mind.
* enters the lives of at least one in four families.
* family illness, it affects the whole family.
* field in which labeling can have quite devastating consequences.
* fills more hospital beds than cancer, lung and heart disease combined.
* forces temporary cessation of writing.
* goes much further than what a doctor or psychiatrist says on paper.
* has a pervasive impact on offspring during their early years
  - catastrophic effects on patients, their families, and our society
  - no clearly defined state of normality with which it can be contrasted
* have a significant impact on personal and social productivity
  - physical causes
* impact many people without regard to age, income, or profession.
* impose a multibillion dollar burden on the economy each year
  - multibillion-dollar burden on the economy each year
* interferes with emotion, thought processes, behaviour and perception.
* is about pain
  - also present
  - an illness that affects or is manifested in a person's brain
* is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain
  - family stress or other life traumas
  - indwelling demonic spirits
  - physical disorders, chemical imbalances and neurological illness
  - characterised by disordered thinking and loss of goal-directed activity
  - common - more common than cancer, diabetes, or heart disease
  - common, very common
  - contagious
  - devastating to all persons and their families
  - different from mental retardation
  - disease of the brain wherein brain processes are profoundly altered
  - fairly prevalent in the Jewish community
  - hard for families to understand and deal with
  - highly treatable
  - incurable
  - indeed among the most poorly treated of all diseases
  - just like a physical illness
  - mental illness, it is also the same as physical and spiritual illness
* is more common than cancer, diabetes or heart disease
  - lung, and heart disease combined
  - many people realise, affecting one in four of the population
  - the general public thinks or knows
  - mysterious and scary, and sufferers have long been shut away
  - never an easy illness to live with
  - no different than physical illness
  - nothing to be afraid of
* is often an important factor in major life events of affected persons
  - misunderstood
  - the basis for suicide
  - transient and can come and go in people's lives
  - transient, coming and going in people's lives
* is one of the major afflictions of mankind that has had little support in the past
  - most serious problems facing our society
  - particular area where such widespread abuse has been reported
  - our attachment to thinking
  - painful and can have devastating effects on a person's life if untreated
  - quite common, quite treatable and quite often, temporary
  - rampant among confined animals
  - rife
  - said to be the nation's number one health problem
* is seen as demon possession
  - non-life threatening
  - serious and requires individualized treatment as well as supportive services
  - something that happens to someone
  - synonymous with Mental retardation
* is the largest co-occurring disorder in persons with known prenatal alcohol exposure
  - most painful of all human illnesses
* is the second leading cause of disability and early death in developed countries
  - disability and premature death in the United States
  - disability and premature mortality
  - term that refers collectively to all diagnosable mental disorders
  - three times more common than cancer
  - treatable and a person can be restored to effective living
  - very rare and unusual
* knows no age, income level, race or gender
  - social, economic or racial barriers
  - socioeconomic, gender, or racial boundaries
* leading cause of disability in the United States
  - health problem in the United States today
* major public health concern.
* matter of choice.
* means among other things functional insufficiency of some structures
  - being locked up for life
* medical disease.
* moral failing, a divine punishment, or demon possession.
* multi-factorial problem.
* occurs because of changes both inside and outside of a person
  - in one in five families
  - when the brain becomes ill
* personal failure, a sin.
* remain unchecked and venereal disease runs rampant.
* requires a similar vigilance for preventing relapse.
* resulst from changes in the brain.
* serious healthcare problem.
* sign of weakness.
* source of great fear in the general public.
* steals years of quality and productive life from the working population.
* strikes people from all walks of life - young and old, rich and poor.
* take a variety of forms.
* thought disorder, mood disorder, or combination of both.
* topic no one seems to want to talk about.
* touches nearly every American family.
* very difficult and trying disease
  - real medical disorder
+ Automatic behaviour: Symptoms :: Nervous system :: Psychology
  * A 'mental illness' is an illness of the mind. People with a mental illness may behave in strange ways, or have strange thoughts, in their view or the view of others. Mental illnesses develop during the life of a person. This may be linked to genes and experience. What is considered as a mental illness has changed over time. What is considered to be a mental illness may not be one in a different culture.