The field of psychiatry suffers from many misconceptions. Among these are:
Misconception 1: Mental disorders are not real illnesses
Mental disorders are illnesses just like physical diseases and occur due to chemical imbalances in the brain. In many physical diseases, patients also experience psychological symptoms, such as in endocrine disorders, immune system diseases, cancers, and others. Similarly, many physical symptoms like headaches, nausea, back and muscle pain, palpitations, shortness of
