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Severe mental illness

Definition

From:

NICE Guideline NG58 - Coexisting severe mental illness and substance misuse: community health and social care services

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

Severe mental illness includes a clinical diagnosis of: schizophrenia, schizotypal and delusional disorders, or bipolar affective disorder, or severe depressive episodes with or without psychotic episodes.

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