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With early and consistent treatment, people with serious mental illnesses can manage their conditions, overcome challenges, and lead meaningful, productive lives. Mental illnesses are disorders that affect a person’s thinking, mood, and/or behavior —and they can range from mild to severe.
By all accounts, serious mental illnesses include “schizophrenia-spectrum disorders,” “severe bipolar disorder,” and “severe major depression” as specifically and narrowly defined in DSM. People with those disorders comprise the bulk of those with serious mental illness.
About one in 20 U.S. adults experienced serious (severe) mental illness. Some may have more than one mental illness, and the symptoms may overlap. There are many different types of mental illness—sometimes referred to as mental disorders—with different causes, symptoms, and treatments.
Any mental illness (AMI) is defined as a mental, behavioral, or emotional disorder. AMI can vary in impact, ranging from no impairment to mild, moderate, and even severe impairment (e.g., individuals with serious mental illness as defined below).
There are many different types of mental illnesses that range in severity. Anxiety and depressive disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), eating disorders, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are a few examples of mental illnesses.
Serious mental illness (SMI) is characterized as any mental health condition that impairs seriously or severely from one to several significant life activities, including day to day functioning. [1][2][3][4] Five common examples of SMI include bipolar disorders, borderline personality disorder, psychotic disorders (i.e. schizophrenia), post-trau...
SMI includes major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder (VA). In 2017, there were an estimated 11.2 million adults aged 18 or older (or 4.5% of all U.S. adults) in the United States with SMI (NIMH).