What are common types of mental illness or mental disorders?
Common mental diseases encountered at a mental health clinic or mental hospital include such mental illness as severe depression, psychosis, schizophrenia, mental retardation or mental disability, and bipolar disorder. Mental Illness and DSM – Who do you trust? Most Americans probably don’t realize that the majority of doctors who contribute to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, known as the DSM have direct or indirect financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The American Psychiatric Association, which publishes the DSM, has said it would require financial disclosures for the next version, due out in 2011. A new study found 56 percent of 170 psychiatric experts who worked on the most recent edition, published in 1994, had at least one financial link to a drug maker at some point from 1989 through 2004. The relationships included speaking or consulting fees, ownership of company stock, payment for gifts and travel and funding for research. All of the expert
