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Mental Illnesses Cause Difficulty in Living

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by Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health

Call mental illnesses as disorders of the mind or disorders of behavior, but better still is disorders of brain.

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Brain Disorders = Mental Illnesses

100 BILLION NEURONS

Why complexity of brain changes in mental illness is daunting is brain has 100 billion neurons.

100 TRILLION SYNAPSES

We have just begun to understand the functioning of brain. The wiring is complex. In mental illnesses wiring gets disturbed. So Professor Director Thomas Ansel prefers to rename mental illnesses as BRAIN DISORDERS

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DISABILITY CAUSED BY MENTAL ILLNESSES FAR EXCEEDS THAT CAUSED BY OTHER DISEASES

Disability Adjusted Life Years DALY

30% of all disabilities due to all medical causes can be attributed to neuropsychiatric disorders. Quality of life and work output is tremendously affected compared to that affected by all other medical diseases.

ONSET Begins in early age

50 per cent by age 14 years age and 75 per cent by age 24.

One in five suffer from one of the mental illnesses:

1. Schizophrenia,
2. Depressive disorder,
3. Bipolar disorder,
4. Anxiety Disorder,
5. Post traumatic stress disorder,
6. Attention Defecit Hyperactivity Disorder,
7. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

More serious than death caused by mental illness is the loss of productive life, quality life in people with mental illness. Source Acknowledgment Copyright

http://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_insel_toward_a_new_understanding_of_mental_illness.html Thomas Insel, Director of the National Institute of Mental Health