Strange, but unfortunately true, very few of us learn anything about serious mental illness during our years in school. Only when someone close to us is affected by one of these illnesses do we suddenly realize how little we know about them.

This section offers an opportunity to learn some important basic information.

Understand more about bipolar disorder, or manic depressive illness at it used to be called. How does it differ from schizophrenia? And what does this term schizoaffective disorder mean? Learn more about the features of unipolar depressive psychosis.

You will find here a wealth of written information and a four-part video in which two knowledgeable psychiatrists address a group of family members about the symptoms, diagnosis, causes and treatment of these psychotic disorders.