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Stress Affects Your Mental Health
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.
A very common mental illness that is caused by stress is manic/chronic depressive disorder. This is characterized
by extreme highs and lows in moods for no apparent reason. Sufferers are irrational and quick to change, in terms
of mood. For example, if you suffer from this disorder you are happy—very happy or sad---very sad for no apparent
reason. Stress is a major cause of this problem.
Eating disorders, which are also quite common, include anorexia (not eating), and bulimia (binging and purging) are
also caused by stress that arises from self esteem. Anxiety disorders are characterized by having an irrational
dread of living one's life, to the point where it is incapacitating.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a form of anxiety disorder where a person obsesses (thinks about) and is
compulsive (does) about a particular action such as washing their hands, to the point where he or she repeats this
action an inordinate amount of times. Stress is a major aspect of our lives and can lead to serious mental problems
if not taken under control. Learning to contain stress can lead to your overall health.
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