Rates of Common Mental Disorders Double Up

Fast- paced lifestyles to blame?

Rates have probably gone up due to the fact that society has become more independent than in the old days. People are expected to function on their own as opposed to earlier times when people were openly dependent on the help of others to progress through life.

What a person perceives as a normal life is wrought with aspirations to become something great and make a difference for oneself and his or her family. This has put tremendous pressure on a person to perform and combined with a feeling of needing to do it on one's own, this can leave a person feeling less than normal.

It is not to say that what has resulted is ok, but people have got to return to some of the ways of the past.

As the Bible says, "Two are better than one, for when one falls down, the other can help him up." it goes on to say, " a triple thread cord is not easily broken." Especially now, people have got to bond together and support one another.

Michelle Hornbeck of MT @ Sep 22, 2009 01:52:41 AM