This text provides a wide overview of all aspects which are part of, and closely associated with, mental illness. The medical components and projection of mental illness, the ill person's struggles with his or her illness and other family member's experiences and struggles alike - these three aspects are essential for families to be familiar with in order to understand their ill person, cope better with mental illness themselves and at the same time gain some control that has been taken away from them. By utilising and providing problem solving methods and a solution focused approach, this book demonstrates how to drastically reduce stress, the unpleasant confrontations and arguments that often are a daily occurrence and associated with mental illness.