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 According to the Better Health Channel, mental illness is a general term for a group of illnesses. A mental illness can be mild or severe, temporary or prolonged. Most mental illnesses can be treated.
Mental illness can come and go in episodes throughout a person’s life. Some people experience their illness only once and fully recover. For others, it is prolonged and recurs over some time. Mental illness can make it difficult for someone to cope with work, relationships and other demands.
A person with a mental illness can experience changes in the way they think and behave. These changes may happen quickly or they may be gradual and subtle. It may take time to understand and identify what is happening.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD)
ADHD and ADD are similar conditions, they both mean that the individual has either a short attention span or a tendancy for impulsive behaviour.
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Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a disorder in which a person may experience a pattern of unstable personal relationships, a poor self-image and low impulse control in areas such as spending, sexual conduct, driving, eating and substance abuse.
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Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Dissociative Identity Disorder is not schizophrenia, it is a dissociative disorder. Dissociation is where the person removes, spaces out, denies, represses, depersonalises or is amnesied during a situation.
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Schizo Affective Disorder
Schizo Affective Disorder is quite rare and is defined as 'the presence of psychotic symptoms in the absence of mood changes for at least two weeks in a patient who has a mood disorder'.
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Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental illness that affects one person in every one hundred. Some people may experience only one or a few episodes of schizophrenia in their life and some may experience it for the rest of their lives.
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Reference
Better Health Channel
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