The American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines mental illness or mental disorder as:
a. an illness or a syndrome with psychological orbehavioural manifestations and/or impairment infunctioning due to a social, psychological, genetic,physical/chemical or biological disturbance
b. a significant disturbance in mind, thought or
memory.
c. a diagnosis of intellectual impairment.
d. an incapacity to care for self.
a
The terms ‘mental health' and ‘mental illness' are often
used interchangeably but they should not be. The American
Psychiatric Association (APA) defines mental illness or mental
disorder as an illness or a syndrome with psychological or
behavioural manifestations and/or impairment in function
ing due to a social, psychological, genetic, physical/chemical
or biological disturbance.
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