The author says there are three different categories of things that often get called mental illness or mental health challenges. One is normal depression, anxiety and other thoughts and behaviors; everybody has those. The second category includes people who are exposed to extreme forms of threat, trauma, or stress. And the thirdcategory is what she calls "brain disorders," in which people's brains malfunctioning.

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