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Mental Health Awareness
What is Mental Illness
A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.
Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible.
Mental illness affects everyone. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion or income. Mental illnesses are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character or poor upbringing. Nearly 60 million Americans experience a mental health condition every year. Regardless of race, age, religion or economic status, mental illness impacts the lives of at least 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 10 children across the United States.
Mental illnesses are treatable. Most people diagnosed with a serious mental illness can experience relief from their symptoms by actively participating in an individual treatment plan. People living with mental illness need help and hope: they need a community that supports them, their families and their recovery.
The Lancaster Police Department understands that mental illnesses can be devastating to the lives of our citizens and their families, especially when they do not know where to turn for help. The Lancaster Police Department has provided this page with attached links for alternative resources as well as information on how to obtain a Mental Illness or Chemical Dependency Warrant.
A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning. Just as diabetes is a disorder of the pancreas, mental illnesses are medical conditions that often result in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.
Serious mental illnesses include major depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), panic disorder, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder. The good news about mental illness is that recovery is possible.
Mental illness affects everyone. Mental illnesses can affect persons of any age, race, religion or income. Mental illnesses are not the result of personal weakness, lack of character or poor upbringing. Nearly 60 million Americans experience a mental health condition every year. Regardless of race, age, religion or economic status, mental illness impacts the lives of at least 1 in 4 adults and 1 in 10 children across the United States.
Mental illnesses are treatable. Most people diagnosed with a serious mental illness can experience relief from their symptoms by actively participating in an individual treatment plan. People living with mental illness need help and hope: they need a community that supports them, their families and their recovery.
The Lancaster Police Department understands that mental illnesses can be devastating to the lives of our citizens and their families, especially when they do not know where to turn for help. The Lancaster Police Department has provided this page with attached links for alternative resources as well as information on how to obtain a Mental Illness or Chemical Dependency Warrant.