MENTAL DISEASES

There are several factors that can cause mental illnesses, like biology, psychological trauma, environmental stressors, or even heredity (genetics). Recent discoveries have found that mental diseases traditionally thought to be distinct (autism, ADHD, bipolar disorder, major depression and schizophrenia) share genetic roots. Although it doesn't mean that if your parents may have or had a mental illness you will have one, you are more likely to face it, as they run in families.

Unfortunately, most mental illnesses are caused by a combination of factors and cannot be prevented. But they can be treated with medication, psychotherapy, hospital treatments or specific therapies. They can also be treated with alternative therapies, creative therapies, hypnotherapy, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS, but they are not as effective. 

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