A mental disorder will have an impact on roughly one in four persons at some point in their lives. Additionally, mental health illnesses continue to be significantly underreported. More than half of the people who had a mental health or substance addiction condition in 2016 were male, according to the research. However, the stigma associated with mental illness continues to affect men.

 

We frequently assume that they must be "strong" for their families and bear their problems alone, but in reality, asking for assistance is much more responsible and courageous. Being honest and open about your feelings will help improve your relationships and increase your friends and family's trust in you. If so, you possess the mental and emotional strength to support them when they need it.

 

Mental disease cannot be explained by a single personality type

 

Numerous personality traits have been studied concerning mental illness, including neuroticism, introversion, disinhibition, conscientiousness, and perfectionism. The truth is that no single temperament or personality type can account for all mental health issues. Examining well-known people who have openly announced their experiences with mental illness exemplifies this. Despite having extremely different personalities, Victoria Pendleton, Alistair Campbell, Demi Lovato, Jonny Wilkinson, and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson have all been impacted by mental illness.

 

Being mentally sick is not a decision

 

Since there are so many potential causes, mental illness is not something you choose to have. Biological, environmental, social learning, and other factors are possible. It's a spaghetti dish of possibilities, and each strand is so intricately braided into the other that you can't pin it down. Even with the "ideal" upbringing, genes, and other factors working in your favour, you can still experience sadness or an eating disorder. You simply can't even trace it, and there aren't many advantages to digging deeper into it.

 

Physical ailments can almost be considered to be more of a choice if you wanted to play the chosen game, as they can be more strongly tied to environmental issues like smoking, bad eating, and other things. However, we don't do that, and I would never want to put the burden of someone's illness on them. Simply said, I'm trying to make the point that mental illness should be treated the same way that physical sickness is never seen as a choice. Regardless of their behaviours or the causes, no one chooses their illness.

 

Brain scans, blood tests, and other tests can reveal the impact of mental illness. But we shouldn't even need that; we need to trust what is being said to us. All I need from them is proof that they are struggling because they are talking about it.

 

It isn't a weakness because they have no control over it; in fact, the fact that they are fighting it gives them control.

 

Many people who struggle with mental illness need enormous stores of energy, willpower, and mental fortitude just to get through the day. Consider the condition known as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Imagine a young person with OCD who wakes up at 4 a.m. every day to perform ritualistic counting for three hours before heading to school. What about the OCD mother who spends hours every day sterilising her baby's toys and checks on her child every ten minutes while she sleeps? Are these individuals weak? Not! The incredible persistence that many persons with mental health issues exhibit daily should astound us.

 

The factors that lead to mental disease;

 

What are the reasons for "weakness" that isn't the cause of mental health problems? We recognize the relevance of both hereditary and environmental factors. There is no unique gene for any common mental health issue, including anxiety, sadness, and others. These disorders are polygenic, which means that they are influenced by hundreds or thousands of genes, each of which has only a minor impact. Similarly, a variety of environmental experiences, including stressful life events, are likely to be significant in the development of mental health issues in the population, with anyone's experience having only a minor impact. The underlying causes of mental health problems are extremely complex.