Caregiving to a person with mental illness who is locked up at home / Georgina P. Maskay

Mental illness is commonly thought of as very threatening; that persons with mental illness are violent and could harm themselves and other people. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental illnesses as medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeding, mood, ability to relate to others' daily functioning and are brain-based conditions that often result in a variety of symptoms that can affect daily life. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010) defines mental illness are real and involve disturbances of thought, experience, and emotion serious enough to cause functional impairment in people, making it more difficult for them to sustain interpersonal relationships and carry on their jobs, and sometimes leading to self-destructive behavior and even suicide.

Nursing.