At the risk of providing an unwanted tautology, psychiatric illness is an illness treated by a psychiatrist. Psychiatry has always been a discipline that treats all comers. Some patients are self selected (realize something is wrong), and some patients are treated against their will (which is an unfortunate feature of modern life). The broader topic of voluntary treatment and involuntary treatment of psychiatric illness might be better adressed e...
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At the risk of providing an unwanted tautology, psychiatric illness is an illness treated by a psychiatrist. Psychiatry has always been a discipline that treats all comers. Some patients are self selected (realize something is wrong), and some patients are treated against their will (which is an unfortunate feature of modern life). The broader topic of voluntary treatment and involuntary treatment of psychiatric illness might be better adressed elswhere, but it might be noted at the outset that psychiatric treatment is not something that anyone looks forward to.
The illnesses that often are presented to a psychiatrist to be treated, are syndromes of childhood trauma and developmental injury, syndromes of adult trauma and injury, substance abuse and dependence (such as alcoholism), depression, anxiety, dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. However, the broader set of illnesses brought to a psychiatrist for treatment might be summarized as illnesses where either the source of...
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