Come si ammala la mente

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According to popular belief, mental illness is often associated with extreme manifestations of psychiatric affliction: someone talking to herself alone in a corner; a chronically depressed individual who spends all day in bed; the homeless person who, in the middle of the summer, wears a heavy coat and rubber boots and pushes a shopping cart full of junk though the streets; the girl weighing only 30 kg who refuses to eat; and so on. Although these may be particularly obvious examples of mental illness - diagnosed by the renowned DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition) as depression, schizophrenia, aneroxia nervosa, etc. - there are more widespread forms of mental illness which are less evident and involve inflexibilities of the mind that prevent one from forming satisfying relationships, make one feel inadequate and in some way lacking, that stop one from thinking that life may change, that lead one to think that unhappiness is inevitable and that ot

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