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Consequences of Non-Treatment
Scizophrenia Facts
Manic Depressive facts
Briefing Papers
Victomization
# Untreated & Why
Drugs and Brain Structure
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Resources are background materials and statistical data relating to appropriate care for those who are seriously mentally ill.
Some of these papers have been adapted from material on the web page of the Treatment Advocacy Center.
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Anosognosia Keeps Patients From Realizing They're Ill
A growing body of evidence points to the fact that for many people with
serious mental illness, lack of insight is a medically based condition.
About half of the people with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may
not be getting the treatment they need because of a brain deficit that
renders them unable to perceive that they are ill, according to one
expert. <<more>>
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The Assessment of Insight in Psychosis
This paper reports on a reliability and validity study of a new scale
for assessing various aspects of insight into illness. Five years after
the publication of this article, the Scale to assess Unawareness of
Mental Disorder (SUMD) has become the most widely used instrument for
assessing insight into illness in psychiatric research. <<more>>
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Awareness of Illness in Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective and Mood Disorders
The study reported in this paper involved over 400 patients from around
the country and showed, unequivocally, that poor insight into illness
is common in psychotic disorders while being rare in other psychiatric
disorders. Large proportions of patients with schizophrenia,
schizoaffective disorder, psychotic
mania and psychotic depression were generally unaware of having an
illness. <<more>>
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