Severe Mental Illness

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SMI
Pronunciation
/səˈvɪr ˈmɛntəl ˈɪlnəs/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Law & Legal

Examples in Context

  1. The findings are important because paranoia is generally thought to be a symptom of severe mental illness.
  2. Suffering from severe mental illness.
  3. If cognitive therapy and drugs can treat severe mental illness effectively, they seem worth promoting.
  4. Over a follow-up period of at least six months, individuals of all ages were significantly more likely to die from coronary heart disease and stroke if they had a severe mental illness.
  5. " Clinically, a holistic approach to the care of people with severe mental illness is still frequently overlooked," they write.

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