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Mental Illness Treatment
In this section, you will learn about mental illnesses which can also be called psychiatric disorders. You will also find helpful resources that provide more information to further your understanding of mental illness.

Extraordinary advances have been made in the treatment of mental illness. The understanding what causes some mental health disorders. It helps doctors to find a way for treatment to those disorders. As a result, many mental health disorders can now be treated nearly as successfully as physical and other disorders. (May 2007 by Caroline Carney Doebbeling)

Now a days most treatment methods for mental health disorders can be categorized as either somatic or psychotherapeutic. Somatic treatments include drug therapy and electroconvulsive therapy. Psycho therapeutic treatments include individual, group, or family and marital psychotherapy; behavior therapy techniques (such as relaxation training or exposure therapy); and hypnotherapy. Most studies suggest that for major mental health disorders, a treatment approach involving both drugs and psychotherapy is more effective than either treatment method used alone. (May 2007 by Caroline Carney Doebbeling).

Psychiatrists are not the only mental health care practitioners trained to treat mental illness. Others include clinical psychologists, social workers, nurses, and some pastoral counselors. However, psychiatrists (and psychiatric nurse practitioners in some states) are the only mental health care practitioners licensed to prescribe drugs. Other mental health care practitioners practice psychotherapy primarily. Many primary care doctors and other non-mental health care doctors also prescribe drugs to treat mental health disorders. (May 2007 by Caroline Carney Doebbeling)

We also can see now that mental illnesses can take many forms, just as physical illnesses do.People still have a fear of mental illnesses because of their misunderstanding. after they they have a better knowledge about those illnesses, they will be more relaxed. If you, or someone you know, has a mental illness,than there is good news: all mental illnesses can be treated now with the help of new system, materials and drugs that doctors use these days. (May 2007 by Caroline Carney Doebbeling)