Volume 5 Issue 8 August 2015
❌Mental illness isn’t real illness.
✅Mental illnesses are real disorders which cause distress. They are more than normal ups & downs of day to day life.
❌People with mental illness lack intelligence.
✅Generally level of intelligence among patients with mental illness likely parallels the patterns seen in any healthy population. Though patients with certain mental illnesses are cognitively challenged.
❌Mental disorders will never affect me.
✅Everyone is vulnerable for mental health disorders.
❌Stress causes mental illness.
✅This is partially true. Stress is one of the triggering factors but there are several biological, psychological and social factors that do contribute to mental illness.
By Swapnil Tripathi, final year, MBBS student, AIIMS, Jodhpur, Rajasthan
