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There are, generally speaking, three varieties of mental illness. There are depressive illnesses, psychosis-related illnesses and obsessive compulsive illness...
...Mental illness is the hidden health malady of America. Although quite prevalent, nobody wishes to talk about it. Consequently, the general population is largely ignorant of issues related to mental illness...
Psychosis-related mental illness is one that causes a person to no longer see the same reality everyone else sees. The psychotic experiences departure from reality. He or she experiences hallucinations including hearing voices in his or her mind that he or she has no control of. Speaking to an untreated psychotic can be much the same as speaking to a nonsensical person. Because the psychotic has departed from reality, he or she may make little sense...
Young people in college today are vulnerable to all three varieties of mental illness described. Mental illness strikes many college-aged people...
Perhaps the most widely heard of mental illness is schizophrenia. This is a psychosis-related illness. Its most common trait is that a person becomes overtaken by hallucinations. One out of every 100 people is stricken by schizophrenia. Furthermore, schizophrenia strikes without warning to people generally between the ages...