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The World Health Organization (WHO) defines normality as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, but this definition is limited, because it defines physical and mental health simply as the absence of a physical or mental disease.  The text revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders offers no definition of normality or mental health, although a definition of mental disorder is presented: Disturbances of an individual’s behaviour or of his psycho­logical functioning that are not culturally expected and that lead to psychological distress, behavioural disability, or impaired overall functioning (DSM-5).  A mental disorder is defined as a syndrome characterized by clinically signifi­cant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with signifi­cant distress in social, occupational, or other important activities.  An expectable or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behaviour (i.e. political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the indi­vidual and society are not mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual, as described above (DSM-5).  But all this distinction (still imperfect and amenable to improvement) was not such until recent times, in particular up to the discovery of effective treatments on one side and, on the other, to the changes in the society which led to the widening of the personal freedoms and to recognize higher minimal levels of human dignity and rights, at least in western countries.  The border between mental insanity and a number of ‘out of standard’ behav­iours not related to it might still look subtle and it is so since unmemorable times.  Ideas of mentally ‘normal’ and ‘abnormal’ are largely shaped by social standards and can have profound social ramifications. What is considered ‘normal’ changes with changing of societal standards. Society generally sees normality as good and abnormality as bad. Being labelled as ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’ can have profound consequences for an individual, such as exclusion or stigmatization by society. Stigma and discrimination add suffering to the suffering and disability for who is diagnosed with (or perceived to have) a mental disorder and his family.