Some say trauma is the cause of mental illness However there is more than just whether the trauma is minor, moderate, or huge ie there is the fact that different levels of stress will be needed to tip any two people into an adverse mental or psychological reaction. This brings into play variants in snps/genes. With the wrong variant chances of mental/psychological problems are more likely.
I am sure that I was born with the faulty genes and I did suffer some trauma. I suffered from severe panic disorder starting at an early age, and panic disosrder followed me up into my 40’s - I am still prone to an occasional panic attack.
Fear and uncertainty ruled my impressionable childhood years, this played a part in me developing a severe mental illness later on in my life
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Noted. Mental illness is not the excuses for being the subject of bullying. Traumatic experience such as bullying trigger mental illness. Either way it becomes a vicious cycle. One similar example is the depressed gets even more depressed as a result of bad side effect of antidepressant.
did the truck driver apologize. it always seems to something always gets flattened everytime we talk about this subjectmaybe we should look in the Y we received dramain the early adolescence and teenage years
I carry a variant in an snp that makes me a worrier. 25% carry this and 25% carry the opposite warrior variant. Those with the variant react more badly to stress and are more likely to have a psychotic reaction to stress. They are also more likely to be anxious. Probably explains why I become irrational ,more paranoiac, and heated under acute stress and lapse into a mildly psychotic/sub psychotic state.
Also why even with the low grade stresses of daily living my default position is chronic mild to moderate anxiety.
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Holy Cow! I am the same exact way! I must be carrying the same type of variant - I quickly become irrational and anxious - falling to pieces under some stress, even milder forms of stress. My paranoia and anxiety will border on psychotic under the right amount of stress - and I too am a big worrier.
Thanks for this valuable piece of information @firemonkey, very interesting and so true in my case as well
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If PTSD wasn’t part of the spectrum of the human condition and mental illness. I would pretty much totally debunk the existence of things like repressed memories but that’s only my opinion.