An article from medicalnewstoday.com, reports that the fundamental fact that the present economic crisis is creating a mental health crisis because people are unable to pay their bills. Not only in the United States, but also in the U.K., people are going through mental epression because of the high rising costs of products such as clothes, fuel and food. I chose this aritcle because it's everywhere.
In any case, the pressure created by the state of the economy is causing a vast increase in anxiety, stress and depression. Those who struggle with depression are feeling even worse than usual. Those who do not usually feel depressed find themselves suffering from symptoms due to their debt, financial and economic circumstances. The article uses a term that is new and unfamiliar: "debt depression."
While it is usual to discuss the fact that mental illness can create poverty by making difficult for people to work with any kind of consistency, it is now being recognized that financial or economic problems can cause emotional and psychiatric difficulties.
When discussing the factors can cause mental problems we refer to what is called the Bio-Psycho-Social factors that form the basis of how an individual is able to live and function.
1. Biological causes of emotional problems can range from serious physical sickness and disability to inherited or genetic characteristics that influence emotions and behavior.
2. Psychological factors that can cause emotional problems are the amount of stress a person has tolerated throughout their lives to their emotional and intellectual capacities all the way to how they perceive and think about events in their lives.
3. Social factors that cause mental illness can be such things as national and world events, such as wars, inflation and unemployment all the way to alcohol and drug abusing parents, living in a slum versus a wealthy neighborhood and level of education.
Financial and economic problems can affect mental health by causing people to feel:
1. Inadequate and helpless about being able to solve their problems.
2. Worried and anxious about the debts they have accumulated and how they can resolve them.
3.Insecure and pessimistic about the future.
4. Angry and irritable, particularly around family and friends.
5. Fearful about discussing financial problems for fear of being judged by others.
Everyone all over the world is falling into a deep depression in more sense then one. They are economically depressed which makes them mental depressed and that effects everyone around them. I agree that this happens because when you have no money for anything you havenothing. Everything in this world costs something, nothing is free. The information has been presented fairly, in the sense that they have enough information to show the facts that people are getting depressed more rapidly. I would use this article again .
link is: http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=weblog&wlid=5&id=413&cn=5
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Stephanie, You're really on to something here. The emotional toll of serious economic problems, like foreclosure or losing a job, is enormous. In fact, they're considered among life's most challenging events. I wish you had summarized, rather than copied, the article so your classmates would have gotten more of the information. I also wish you included places where people can get help, which was in the article. That's especially important because kids especially are suffering from their parents' money problems.
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