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1/26/2014 11:09:14 PM
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Is mental illness on the rise?
Today at work, I found out one of my friends tried to commit suicide a few years back, which means that I now know three of my friends attempted suicide at least once.
Is this normal for people? I see quite a lot about stuff depression, suicide and other disorders, even a lot from you guys. I used to think it was mostly people overreacting till my friend went through it, and I saw how morbid and sad it all was.
It seems to me a I don't really hear about this kind of stuff from my parents or older friends/relatives, so are these illness's on the rise due to increasing societal pressures on young people? Or is there just more people willing to discuss it?
What do you guys think.
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I personally think its a combination of both. More so that there are more people in the world than there was, say, 100 years ago. More people = more problems. And more problems lead to more people acquiring mental illnesses. A lot of it is genetic, and passed from parent to child. Which in essence could mean it gradually worsens the farther along it passed down, because of escalation. For instance, depression can be genetically passed from mother to daughter without a crisis, and since depression is already present in the daughters life, when a crisis strikes the depression worsens and passes on to the next child and son on. Each time escalating even more. Just a thought.
