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The Important Of Assessment
It is the fact that mental health assessment is an important and basic step of treatment. You can not prescribe appropriate treatment without accurate assessment. It helps your doctor to know how well you feel emotionally, and how well you remember, think and reason. This process might include interviews and written tests. Sometimes it includes lab test such as blood or urine test.
During this process your doctor studies your behavior, mood, thinking reasoning etc. Some researches have proved that the five out of ten leading causes of disability in the world is mental health illness. They are normally due to depression, alcohol use, manic-depressive illness, self-inflicted injuries and schizophrenia.
Several people do not have a clear understanding about the cause and nature of mental illness. Some believe that these illnesses are the disease of soul and spirit, whereas some of them believe that it is due to the disorder process in the brain..
