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Are mental health issues more individual or societal in nature?
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This is a tough question. I feel like there could never be a definite answer either way. It’s definitely individual in a sense. Extenuating circumstances like toxic family environments, moving, and trauma could throw someone into a bad mental state. There is also evidence that some disorders are genetic. So you can literally be more unhappy than others even if you have a seemingly perfect life. Yet, we see broad patterns in mental health. Circumstances repeat themselves. And if some disorders are genetic, and are inherited through bloodlines, can we argue that is societal itself? Affecting a long line of people? It’s hard to say.
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