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What constitutes as a severe mental illness?

My son is 22-years-old and has debilitating depression and suicidal thoughts. How can I help him cope with these tendencies? What constitutes as a severe mental illness?

2 Answers

Schizophrenia is a severe illness. As he gets older he should be much better and seeing a good therapist. Life coach is good also. Positive energy and actions are the vest for him right now
A good synopsis of MDD is:

https://caps.ucsc.edu/resources/depression.html

A good link into addressing your 2nd question is:

http://www.bhevolution.org/public/severe_mental_illness.page