), but again, I had to do research on the subject of mental health for a case one of our attorneys had on my job. People who haven't had a close relationship to someone in some fashion with a real, serious mental illness sometimes cannot grasp the depth of the issue. Moreover, there is a difference between a mental disorder & a mental disease. Mental disorders can very often be treated with standard cognitive or talk therapy, but a disease, such as schizophrenia, cannot. A disorder is simply something that isn't "normal" or "standard" but mentally ILL people actually have a sickness, like diabetes, cancer, multiple sclerosis, but the diseased organ is the brain, making it delicate & difficult to treat. While most brain diseases are highly treatable, they are also highly specific & it can take years before the proper balance is found. These people are also among the most vulnerable in our society, sometimes for the very misconceptions so many others seem to have.