Simply naming a mental illness does not necessarily point the way to effective treatment.
In Chile, physical illness does not exempt a defendant from a trial, although insanity or dementia does.
Mental health illness does not have to hold a young person back if they have the right support.
And yet a positive test for another illness does not mean that anthrax is not also present.
Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary, Royal College of Nursing "Illness does not respect time or boundaries.
"However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings.
Psychiatric illness does not count, as its diagnosis relies on the patient's account, and the recovery has to be complete, sudden and permanent.
Bites cause pain, sweating, muscular weakness, nausea and vomiting, but serious illness does not develop for at least three hours, allowing victims time to seek medical attention.
The writer's father had deserted his family during the Depression, and only during his father's terminal illness does the writer begin to understand and forgive his father.
In other words, the fact that a psychiatrist has given someone a diagnosis of mental illness does not, by itself, bar that person from having a gun.
"The good things he does for cancer and the fact that he overcame the illness does have some value," Dezenhall said.
