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What is Depression?
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Where Does Mental Illness Come From?
Vulnerability to Mental Illness Equals Stress, Risk and Protective Factors Creating the Perfect Storm
By Peggy L. Ferguson, Ph.D.
We don’t really know for sure how most forms of mental illness get started. But, much like research on addiction, most professionals conducting research, making observations, and theorizing on this broad subject, believe that a variety of biological, psychological, and social factors come together to create a vulnerability to mental illness. A certain level of unmanaged stress seems to be highly influential in triggering symptoms of mental illness that are manifested to such a degree that a diagnosis would be warranted. These biological, psychological, and social factors seem to set the stage as “vulnerabilities”, but other “protective” factors are also usually present. The impact of any one factor can vary, especially over time and circumstance.
Some of the vulnerabilities to developing mental illness include genetic predispositions, certain parenting styles, cultural factors, and traumatic/stressful events. Many people who come from a family of origin with other mentally ill family members, may want to believe that genetics and/or neurochemistry are the source(s) of their mental illness. To read the rest of the article follow this link: Where Does Mental Illness Come From? Vulnerability to Mental Illness Equals Stress, Risk and Protective Factors Creating the Perfect Storm
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