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How to
Understand Mental
Illness
3 steps toward understanding
another person's experience of a
mental disorder:
Posted March 22, 2022
Reviewed by Ekua Hagan
KEY POINTS
Many depictions of mental illness in
Hollywood are inaccurate. To understand
it requires some effort:
Understanding mental illness first requires
seeing how the symptoms differ from the
typical human experience_
Mental illness cannot be understood until
it's seen from a personal perspective as
well as a technical one