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Have you ever walked through a public shopping center and seen a grown man talking to himself or a grown woman throwing a temper tantrum? Everyone has witnessed an act of this kind at least once. We know that there is something mentally wrong and they can’t help it, yet we still stare. How does that make that person feel? Many people don’t know that a lot of people with mental illnesses don’t realize their behavior unless they are treated differently. Why does society treat the mentally ill so differently? Doing research to help me answer this question enlightened me with many more aspects I had no idea ever existed. Mental health disorders strike millions of people; regardless of race, color, gender, age, and socioeconomic status; each year (UI Behavioral Health). Episodes of mental illnesses can come and go in periods throughout people’s lives. Some people experience their illness only once and fully recover. For others, it recurs throughout their lives. There are non-psychotic illnesses, which are mild. Then there are psychotic illnesses, which is a condition caused by any one of a group of illnesses that are known or thought to affect the brain causing changes in thinking, emotion, and behavior (Mental Hea