Many people today are born with mental illnesses. In my opinion, mental illnesses can be genetic or just caused by different complications within the human body. Sometimes there are complications with women during pregnancy’s that can cause a baby born with a mental illness. For example, when my mother was in labor with me I made a bowel movement inside her and if I would have ate it then I would of had a mental illness for eating my species. Some people have normal families and still have one person that is born with a mental illness. There is no specific or reason why a person is born with a mental illness. Anyone could be born with a mental illness so there is not one main cause for having a mental illness. Effective interventions for mental illnesses is to maintain a stable environment and ensure positive outcomes for that person. Considering the individual diagnose, goals and strengths will help with designing a good intervention. The family should have a peer support, medication management, family counseling, parent mentoring etc. This is to ensure the needs of that person with the mental illness and or also help the family solve problems with the life changes that come with taking care of a person with a mental illness. I have not personally witnessed an individual who had a mental illness. I have seen them people out in public who may have a mental illness. I can remember seeing children in school that had mental illnesses, but at the time I did not know what caused that child to be different from