Psychology did not know how to reach the streets, not on an accessible or understandable level. Most society continues to confuse different ways of being with mental disorders. We keep hearing phrases like “Today I’m bipolar,” “Did I wake up compulsive?” Yes?I have a depression today.
Most people, from time to time, manifest ways of being that they may be related to psychological problems, but for a long time to be considered a mental disorder, psychologists have not yet managed to make it understand the general population.
- The way we deal with everyday mental health problems can lead us to develop disorders as long as the signs and symptoms are permanent.
- Frequent and affect all functional areas of the person.
- Mental health remains the main oversight of public health.
- It is a great taboo that must be confronted and solved.
“Your life is but a reflection of the state of your mind. “- Wayne Dyer-
Mental illnesses are changes in cognitive development or behavioral disorders that can severely affect personal autonomy and daily performance of daily activities. The loss of daily autonomy results in invisible and inexplicable pain that makes it difficult to overcome mental illness. A sad soul can kill faster than a bacterium. .
Joy and pain are not like water and oil, they coexist, when pain is mental it becomes accustomed to suffering in solitude, enclosed in itself and, most of the time, without anyone being able to imagine the state of our thoughts. is the pain you suffer without witnesses.
A recent study published in the journal Psychological Science, a publication by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), concluded that mental pain affects more than physical pain, negative emotional experiences can cause more pain than we think, as the memory of physical pain weakens over time, mental pain can recover through your memory.
“A pain that is not evacuated by tears can make other organs cry. “
Contrary to what is generally thought, the presence of mental disorders in society is much more common than one imagines, in fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four citizens will face one type of mental illness throughout their lives.
These data start a debate in which it is important to clarify that we live between disorders, accepted when they are physical and prohibited, kept under lock and key, when they are mental, mental disorders are not chosen. Despite this, certain mental behaviors can trigger habits that are harmful to our health.
Mental disorders are more common in people whose blood relatives also have them. Some genes can increase the risk of developing mental illness and a particular life situation can also trigger it. In particular, exposure to environmental stressors, toxins, drugs or alcohol may be associated, in some cases, with mental illness.
Would you stop reading the Harry Potter series because its author went through a deep depression?Wouldn’t you listen to Elton John because he was suffering from bulimia?Did you know that actor Leonardo DiCaprio had had his career affected because he suffered from obsession . . . compulsive disorder? We will learn to live together, enriching ourselves with our differences.
“Our vulnerabilities come from our strengths. -Sigmund Freud-