It's possible to live a healthy, rewarding life despite having a severe mental illness.
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For some people, their experience of mental illness is a once-in-a-lifetime ordeal. For others, it is a life-long process of coping and recovery.
Although getting ill can be a costly complication in a person's life, many of the treatments that can help are affordable and available in most locales.
As with any severe or chronic illness, the patient's ability to fulfill social roles will depend on the degree to which they are able to achieve and maintain stable recovery from the effects of illness. If a person's illness is severely debilitating, they will not be able to fill these roles, or fill them well. But many people with schizophrenia and other SPMIs can and do make good neighbors, employees, and parents.
Founded in January 2009, the Center for Excellence in Community Mental Health is part of the Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Addressing quality of care and workforce development issues in North Carolina's mental health system, the Center and its clinical programs are supported by a three-year grant from The Duke Endowment, as well as Cross Area Services Program (CASP)
funds. The program operates in conjunction with multiple university, state, and community-based partners.
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