Is each mental illness its own disease? etc axiety, depression, depersonalization,?

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is each mental illness a disease? like is anxiety disorder a disease? bipolar? panic disorder? psychosis? depersonalization? would it be safe to then say 5 types of brain disease? or is it just one since its mental health? Yes, im diagnosed by many psychiatrists as the above.
 
I would agree, but I'd call them illnesses, or conditions, rather than diseases, as that implies that they are caused by infections to me.
 
I think that mental illness incompasses each of these things in one whole process. But just like side effects to a drug, you might get one and not the other.

I have depression, and anxiety, while my daughter is bipolar and has anxiety and depression with it.
 
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