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    A mental illness is any kind of mental health condition or disorder. Mental illnesses affect mood‚ thinking‚ and behavior. A mental illness affects a character and the people close to them. It affects a character by causing sadness and disabling the things that the character is able to do. It affects the people close to them because others have to take care of them. A huge way that a mental illness affects a character is by causing sadness. Mental illnesses defiantly cause sadness to the character

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    Is Mental Illness Contagious? Psychiatric disease is a condition that causes may be unknown which happens to the individual’s mind in particular. Making it difficult for him to think properly and logically‚ which then put the person in an endless series of mental diseases‚ which must then offer the patient to a psychiatrist‚ especially if the patient was unable to control his words or actions. People should be informed that the patient with a mental disorder is not harmful and mental

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    The relationship between mental illness and crime has been questioned for quite relatively a long period of time‚ and during the last few decades various studies about this issue have been carried out by a number of scientists who have conducted a number of tests and studies which resulted in a range of different outcomes. People have always feared the violence of the mentally disordered‚ but is there really a relation between criminality and mental illness? Among the disorders which are most

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    blues Mental illness has become a topic that most people nowadays choose not to discuss for one reason or another. We as a society tend to forget about the mentally ill and cast them off to the side forgetting about them giving us a false sense that they are being taken care of‚ or in other words out of sight out of mind. Mental illness is a medical condition that obstructs a person’s thinking‚ feeling‚ mood‚ and ability to function daily. Almost like any other disease mental illness can be mild

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    Mental disorders and crime are frequently associated to each other due to the amount of offenders that are convicted of crimes. When offenders commit a crime sometimes it is due to the fact that they suffer from a mental illness. Mental illness is correlated to the term crime and it is important because one must understand the reason as to why offenders do what they do and under what state one was when committing such crimes. Mental illness is a diagnosable disturbance to a person’s emotional ability

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    with mental illnesses were placed into institutions that were similar to jails. Once they were placed into these institutions‚ they would never be allowed to leave‚ even if they learn to control their illness. Most of these institutions had terrible rules‚ and were treated with cruelty. If a person was diagnosed with any type of mental illness in the 18th century‚ their family would put them in these institutions‚ and never go to visit. With this being said‚ placing those who have a mental illness

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    Mental illness and Criminal Behavior Mental illness and insanity defenses have remained highly controversial topics throughout history. You may have heard of John Hinckley‚ the man who shot and killed President Reagan‚ and was found not guilty by reason of insanity‚ and was instead sent to a psychiatric institute. Some would argue that mental illness is a disease that should be treated as such and that it inhibits an individual from distinguishing right from wrong‚ while others would argue that

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    Mental illness in the UK is the leading cause of disability‚ with about one in five adults suffering from it every year. The risks to mental health can interact and develop over age/time and they can manifest themselves at all stages of human existence but most begin in earlier life. The effects of a mental illness can be both temporary or long lasting. You can also experience more than one mental health disorder at the same time. For example‚ you may have depression and a substance use disorder

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    Mental Illness When I was younger I never truly understood mental illness. I never expected that I would be affected by it. When I was sixteen‚ I experienced feeling anxious especially around people‚ chest pains‚ and occasional panic attacks. I had no idea what was wrong with me so‚ naturally‚ I Googled it. I concluded that I probably had social anxiety. My social anxiety limits me from meeting new people‚ speaking out my opinion in class‚ and simple things like talking on the phone and paying

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    Harry Potter is actually about the mental illness and the “Hogwards” is the mental institution. I had watched all the series of Harry Potter movie .The series is wildly successful‚ one of the most successful of all time‚ and I am interested in understanding why these mega-hits appear from time to time. As I watched this installment‚ it became clear to me that the entire Harry Potter series is an extended metaphor that tell us about a boy with severe mental illness‚ suffering from delusions. Everything

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