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Mental Illness

What is mental illness? According to National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI], (2007), "mental illnesses are medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning." ( 1) Mental illness can affect anyone at anytime in his or her life and mental illness can cause a person to take his or her own life depending on which type of mental illness the person has developed. There are many people who could successfully be treated for his or her mental illness but the person refuse to seek help and this makes the person's situation worse. What are some of the different types of mental illness, which can cause a person to refuse help? Why it is so hard to obtain help for the mentally ill if there is obviously something wrong with the person? There have been several confrontations between police officers and a mentally ill person and a number of these confrontations have led to the death of the mentally ill person. What is the......


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