Most people associate Mental Health or Mental Illness with Madness or Schizophrenia. Remember that the phrase Mental Health is the umbrella term whilst Mental Illness describes different types of longer term illnesses.

All Mental Illness requires prescribed medication often being monitored by psychiatrists, community mental health nurses, and doctors. It is not unusual when newly diagnosed to go into hospital to be assessed and to short medication treatment that requires monitoring and tweaking before discharge.

Most people have no knowledge or understanding of mental illness and make their judgments based on what the media portray i.e. knife wielding Schizophrenia maniac kills fatter of four. This is not the majority of how people suffering with Schizophrenia live.

Like physical illness, we need to monitor and assist with people who are extremely mentally ill and support as they improve.