Introduction

In the last years it has been discovered the importance of mentally ill people integration in the society. When they started to carry out the dehospitalizations, with the goal that the outpatient lived more in contact with the society in general, it was a very important therapeutic element, perhaps the most important one.

Therefore, it’s necessary that the outpatient carries out activities, establishes relationships with people and leads a busy life. For this reason it’s necessary a healthcare network that supports the family and the patient throughout the whole process of the disease.

The family has been the patient’s essential support after the dehospitalization. Even so, we cannot obviate the familiar burden that means to have an patient at home. It’s necessary to face in an adequate way the situation in order to avoid important levels of stress.

It’s necessary then that the families don’t feel alone, and that they can find a meeting place of support where they can be given and support orientation mechanisms in order to contribute to moderate the effects of the illness.

But not only the family and the professionals have to work for improving the quality of life of the patients, the society has to play an outstanding role.

Therefore, it’s necessary to make people sensitive in order to reduce the stigmatization, reduce in this way the prejudices that make it difficult the full integration of the mentally ill people, and at the same time reduce the isolation that until now the families and the patients have suffered.