This manual was developped to help community field workers give practical help to people with serious mental illnes living in the community. In some countries people with problems described in this manual would be seen immediately by a doctor or mental health professional. But in rurl and isolated communities there is no access to professional and community workers must provide simple help for people with mental illnes.

Mental illness is caused by problems in the mind. Mental illness means a big change in the way the person used to behave in the past. This module gives an information about mental illness. It also tells the ways to help the person with mental illness, for example places, traditional treatment, talk therapy, routine activity, using familiar places. traditional healers. Some of them are followed with learning activity for the CBR workers.