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How to spot mental illness? What are the signs of mental illness?

Let's admit it! We have all been through our own phases of ups and downs in our life. But, did our ups mean that we were ecstatic or downs meant depressive? No, right? They are just a part and parcel of our life. When it comes to illness, we have broadly classified it into Physical illness and Mental illness. But the stigma around mental illness is way more stronger than that of physical illness. Similarly, does physical illness mean cancer? Does mental illness mean Schizophrenia? No. Even a mild fever is a physical illness and there are mental illnesses which are in the mild or acute stage. But, for it to reach even the mild stage, it has to start from somewhere, right? So, where is that some point? How to spot that? Let's see. It all starts from our own mind! Sometimes, there are external triggering events and sometimes its our own mind triggering the condition. Either way, it 'will' majorly affect our everyday functioning. Everyday functioning include five major area...