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A mental illness that is actually dealt with perfectly with the line of medications on the shelves is ADHD, in which you get symptomatic remission as long as it's in your bloodstream.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3568402/

It's not only severe, but will pretty much screw you up(not being able to perceive time and act on time across long distances and all), but hey it works!

Nothing else works as well as what's available for ADHD for other mental disorders.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/289931.php <-- Showing that adhd doubles your mortality rate compared to the general population. Here is the abstract

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...



>It's not only severe, but will pretty much screw you up(not being able to perceive time and act on time across long distances and all), but hey it works!

The medication, or the disorder? Because that's a pretty succinct description of ADHD.


The disorder.




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