What is mental illness?
Mental illness isn’t a choice, and it’s not a weakness. Dr. Jerry Halverson, DFAPA, chief medical officer at Rogers Behavioral Health, emphasizes those points when he provides overviews of mental illness and the challenges it imposes on people.
“A mental illness is a physical and/or emotional manifestation of diseases of the brain,” explains Halverson. “Caused by too much or too little of certain chemical actions in one part of the brain, this hyper- or hypoactivity is used to communicate…
Mental illness isn’t a choice, and it’s not a weakness. Dr. Jerry Halverson, DFAPA, chief medical officer at Rogers Behavioral Health, emphasizes those points when he provides overviews of mental illness and the challenges it imposes on people.
“A mental illness is a physical and/or emotional manifestation of diseases of the brain,” explains Halverson. “Caused by too much or too little of certain chemical actions in one part of the brain, this hyper- or hypoactivity is used to communicate… Read MoreAtlanta Business News – Local Atlanta News | Atlanta Business Chronicle