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Explains what mental health problems are, what may cause them, and the many different kinds of help, treatment and support that are available. Also provides guidance on where to find more information, and tips for friends and family.
- Stigma & Misconceptions
Show people reliable information to help them understand...
- Treatment Options
However, although many people can benefit from CBT, not...
- Support Services
Hospital inpatient services support people with severe...
- Types of Mental Health Problems
Lots of people think that if you have an eating problem you...
- About Mental Health Problems
Different perspectives on mental health and mental illness....
- Diagnosis
However, a lot of people, including some doctors and...
- Difficult Feelings & Behaviours
Most people don't go on to attempt to take their own lives....
- Self-care
When you experience a mental health problem it can feel like...
- Stigma & Misconceptions
Causes - Depression in adults. There's no single cause of depression. It can occur for a variety of reasons and it has many different triggers. For some people, an upsetting or stressful life event, such as bereavement, divorce, illness, redundancy and job or money worries, can be the cause.
What causes addictions? There are lots of reasons why addictions begin. In the case of drugs, alcohol and nicotine, these substances affect the way you feel, both physically and mentally. These feelings can be enjoyable and create a powerful urge to use the substances again.
Why do some people become addicted while others do not? Can someone get addicted by using a substance once? Can drug addiction be prevented?
- There are no substances (or activities) that universally or uniformly cause people to become addicted. And the vast majority of people exposed to m...
- Around the world and in the U.S., nicotine is the most widely used addictive substance; tobacco causes a reported 40 million deaths worldwide. Acco...
- The synthetic stimulant methamphetamine is widely considered one of the most addictive agents. Often inhaled, it directly affects the dopamine and...
- There are many risk factors for addiction, from individual factors such as stress tolerance and personality makeup to social factors such as friend...
- Some studies show that genes can account for as much as 50 percent of a person’s risk for addiction, although the degree of genetic influence shift...
- Biology contributes to addiction in ways beyond genes. How the body metabolizes, or breaks down and eliminates, foreign substances such as drugs or...
- There are many factors that influence addiction beyond genes and biology. One of the most significant is t he family milieu and early life experien...
- Stress is a risk factor for many kinds of nonadaptive behavior, and addiction is one. Researchers have long linked the effects of chronic stress to...
- Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) such as trauma, especially combined with an unpredictable and chaotic childhood, pose a risk factor for many k...
Read about the possible causes of depression, including difficult experiences and life events, your physical health, and medication.
Everyone's experience of anxiety is different, so it's hard to know exactly what causes anxiety problems. There are probably lots of factors involved. This page covers some things which make anxiety problems more likely to happen: past or childhood experiences. your current life situation.
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The true cause of anxiety is being a human being, gifted with the capacity to imagine a future. As a mental state of apprehension about what might, or might not, lie ahead,...
