| Mental health issues that are caused by stress can | | | | opportunity problems. These disorders have been |
| range from homicidal or other violent acts towards | | | | proven to be hereditary in some cases but that is the |
| oneself or drive others to addictions. The range of | | | | closest generalization that you can expect. |
| mental health disorders that are stress related is so | | | | A very common mental illness that is caused by |
| broad that it can be difficult to understand how two | | | | stress is manic/chronic depressive disorder. This is |
| situations fall in the same category. The days of shock | | | | characterized by extreme highs and lows in moods for |
| therapy are gone for the most part, but it still is used | | | | no apparent reason. Sufferers are irrational and quick |
| for certain mental illnesses. Gone, too, is the routine | | | | to change, in terms of mood. For example, if you |
| procedure of frontal lobotomies to calm patients into | | | | suffer from this disorder you are happy-very happy or |
| total submissiveness. | | | | sad---very sad for no apparent reason. Stress is a |
| A large key to dealing with stress related mental health | | | | major cause of this problem. |
| issues is to know how to relieve stress. We now | | | | Eating disorders, which are also quite common, include |
| understand that men who are returning from wars | | | | anorexia (not eating), and bulimia (binging and purging) |
| endure thoughts and images that affect them in ways | | | | are also caused by stress that arises from self |
| that we have only begun to be aware of. Post | | | | esteem. Anxiety disorders are characterized by having |
| traumatic stress disorder which is caused by stress | | | | an irrational dread of living one's life, to the point where |
| can affect victims of abuse and violence of all types. | | | | it is incapacitating. |
| Only recently have we begun to understand how | | | | Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a form of |
| traumatic events can affect the people who survive | | | | anxiety disorder where a person obsesses (thinks |
| them. | | | | about) and is compulsive (does) about a particular |
| Despite the many types of mental health disorders | | | | action such as washing their hands, to the point where |
| that currently exist because of stress, some of them | | | | he or she repeats this action an inordinate amount of |
| tend to be much more common than others. Mental | | | | times. Stress is a major aspect of our lives and can |
| health disorders are not discriminatory and affect | | | | lead to serious mental problems if not taken under |
| everyone. They do not choose specific people or | | | | control. Learning to contain stress can lead to your |
| races to affect. Mental health disorders are equal | | | | overall health. |