When We Confuse Personalities With Mental Disorders
Psychology has problems reaching the masses in an understandable way. The majority of society continues to confuse personalities and mental disorders. People still say things like, “I feel like a ‘schizo’ or ‘I’m so bipolar.’ Personalities can actually be related to mental problems. But deciding whether it is a mental illness or not is a fine line that psychologists have not yet managed to draw a clear picture of.
Daily problems related to mental health can lead to disorders if the symptoms become permanent, frequent and / or affect all functional areas in a person’s life . Mental health is still the black sheep in public health. The taboo is still present.
Mental pain in relation to physical pain
Mental illnesses are changes in cognitive development or behavioral disorders. They can seriously affect a person’s independence and ability to perform their daily activities. Losing autonomy can feel like an invisible, unexplained pain and be a reason why mental illness is so difficult to cope with. A broken soul can kill faster than an infection.
Joy and pain are not like oil and water; they coexist. When the pain is mental, we usually suffer in loneliness, locked inside ourselves. Most of the time we have no one who can touch the problem or imagine what it is like in our minds. It is a pain disorder without witnesses.
A study recently published in the journal Psychological Science , an association for psychological scientific publications, concludes that mental pain affects us more than physical pain. Negative emotional experiences can cause more pain than we think. While the memory of physical pain weakens over time, we relive mental pain through our memory.
Increasing awareness of mental disorders
Contrary to popular belief, mental illness is quite common. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), one in four people will have some form of mental illness during their lifetime.
Our society accepts disorders if they are physical, but rejects them and is happy to block them if they are mental. We do not choose the mental disorders we may have, but some mental tendencies can trigger harmful habits.
Mental disorders are more common in people who have family members who also have them. Some genes may increase the risk of mental illness. Some life situations can also trigger this. Particularly influencing factors in the environment, toxins, drugs and alcohol can cause mental illness.
Do you want to stop reading the Harry Potter series because the author went through a deep depression? Would you stop listening to Elton John because he suffered from bulimia? Has Leonardo DiCaprio’s obsessions negatively affected his career as an actor? Let us learn to live together and enrich each other with our differences.
“From your vulnerabilities comes your strength.”
– Sigmund Freud –
