In an increasingly fast-paced modern world, many race against the clock by unnaturally and continuously hijacking the body’s innate stress response. So is it any wonder that the increasing incidence of psychosis diagnoses (reportedly tripled since the 1970s) is being linked to how our bodies deal with stress?
Studies are linking the mismanagement of stress in the body with psychotic disorders left, right and center. Supporting a rapidly emerging sociodevelopmental cognitive model, it could account for the perplexingly vast nonuniformity in psychosis symptom presentation, progression, response to antipsychotic drugs and genetics.
Indeed, causes of increased rates of psychosis may result from improvements to diagnostic systems and increased awareness of early psychosis. However, chronic contemporary psychological stress is so prevalent that it has even been dubbed the “21st century equivalent of the Black Death”, and the mismanagement of stress in the body is undoubtedly an etiological factor for psychosis disorders.
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