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visit the merck manual full access without fees or ads thousands of topics written by medical professionals mental illness the quick facts [Music] what is mental illness mental illness includes a wide range of disorders of thinking emotion and or behavior there are many different types of mental illness and it can be short-lived or long-term sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference between mental illness and normal worry or sadness but mental illness is more severe lasts longer and significantly affects a person's ability to cope with life almost half of adults experience symptoms of mental illness at some point depression is very common the main treatments are medicines and counseling family friends and support groups can also help people cope with mental illness what are the types of mental illness mental illness is really many different disorders these disorders fall into broad categories including anxiety mood disorders such as being too sad or too excited schizophrenia pers