Is Mental Illness Curable

“The last great stigma of the twentieth century is the stigma of mental illness.”
— Tipper Gore, wife of the former U.S. Vice President

When talked about in general, illness is something that we don’t
pay much attention to, but suddenly if the word “mental “is
prefixed to it, eyebrows are raised. We discern a person having
a mental illness to be highly unstable, who can blabber gibberish
only, but it’s not like that. Such is the stigma attached to mental
illness in our society that people fear to avow about it. But you
know what, even depression is a mental disorder! It is just the
lack of knowledge among people that mental illness has such a
taboo around it.

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Mental illnesses are health conditions
involving changes in emotion, thinking, or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses are associated with distress and problems are functioning in social, work, or family activities.

In a given year:

• nearly one in five (19 percent) U.S. adults experience some
  form of mental illness