Mental health issues that are caused by stress can range from homicidal or other violent acts
towards oneself or drive others to addictions. The range of mental health disorders that are
stress related is so broad that it can be difficult to understand how two situations fall in the same
category. The days of shock therapy are gone for the most part, but it still is used for certain
mental illnesses. Gone, too, is the routine procedure of frontal lobotomies to calm patients into
total submissiveness.
A large key to dealing with stress related mental health issues is to know how to relieve stress.
We now understand that men who are returning from wars endure thoughts and images that
affect them in ways that we have only begun to be aware of. Post traumatic stress disorder
which is caused by stress can affect victims of abuse and violence of all types. Only recently
have we begun to understand how traumatic events can affect the people who survive them.
Despite the many types of mental health disorders that currently exist because of stress, some
of them tend to be much more common than others. Mental health disorders are not
discriminatory and affect everyone. They do not choose specific people or races to affect.
Mental health disorders are equal opportunity problems. These disorders have been proven to
be hereditary in some cases but that is the closest generalization that you can expect.
Next chapter , next Tuesday.
This post is an except from "How To Win Your War Against Stress" (c) Wings of Success
