Menal Illness
Mental Illness Mental illness is any disease of the mind that affects a persons thoughts, feelings, and behavior. ... Mental illness can make it difficult for an individual to carry out everyday tasks or to get along with other people. ... Mental illness can also be put into two severity groups, neurosis and psychosis. ... Schizophrenia is viewed almost universally as the classic example of mental illness. ... The third type of mental illness is affective disorder. ... The most common method of treating a mental illness was an exorcism. ... In the nineteenth century most people believed that mental illness was not caused by demons. This was due mainly because of the work of Sigmund Freud, a Vienna psychiatrist, who published a book on the mind and mental illness. He believed that mental illness evolved from emotionally charged childhood events.