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What is considered a serious mental illness?
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Serious mental illness includes diagnoses which typically involve psychosis (losing touch with reality or experiencing delusions) or high levels of care, and which may require hospital treatment. The 2 most common smis are schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, recurrent depressive disorder and substance use disorder are some of the serious mental illness.
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