Impact of Mental Illness
Mental illness has the potential to impact every faucet of an individual's life, as well as the lives of those close to them, including relationships (family and friends), vocational, financial, and behavioral tendencies. These effects differ between each individual due to the treatment approaches taken, the variety of diagnoses, and the intenseness of symptoms. At the age of seventeen Joe felt clueless when his usual good quality school and family life began to change due to a string of stressful experiences. Although his diagnosis was not made immediately, the symptoms of schizophrenia affected his daily life. He became delusional, began to withdrawal from friends, his senses were distorted and overall he was uncomfortable around people.
Two categories were created to illustrate the impact on family members caring for an individual with a mental disorder. These are identified as objective burden' and subjective burden'. An objective burden refers......
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