Scapey wrote:
What sort of mental health problems do you mean?
Pick a personality disorder or a mental illness. Nariccism and sociopathy/psychopathy that are the predeominant ones with individuals being referenced here but the current diagnostic manuals list well over 2000 different kinds of mental disorders.
At the core most of them are learned behaviors learned from families and friends. They can be unlearned and broken away from if one desires to break the cycle. The old saying insanity runs in families applies here.
60 years ago if you had the least bit of issues they institutionalized you until you were cured.
Now we have three generations of children from individuals that have chronic mental illness and their behaviors which actually defines many of the mental illnesses and disorders have been passed onto their children.
Plus many with mental issues there is a commonality of drug use and completely ignoring the environment that includes children creating another generation that is likely to have the same issue. This is called the cycle of abuse/trauma. Many times the abuse has occurred for a while before authorities can step in and remove the children.
Plus there are the single parent families that do not have enough available time to do parenting as they have to make sure that the bills are paid. And there are even two parent families in the same boat. Now what happens if you do not have time to parent? You have a stand in babysitter. What do you choose now-a-days? You choose a screen be it TV, computer, or tablet/phablet. The problem with this is it exposes a developing individual to improper and age inappropriate materials with no parental supervision that actually creates its own set of a traumas and exposures to abuse vis a vis cyber bullying.
Now throw in another component: culture. We now have a culture of abuse and promotion of violence to support the end to a means by a handful of groups. Vicious silencing of any dissent. Weaponizing a populace against itself. Popularising these ideas across multiple platforms A child gets exposed to the toxic exchanges as they witness this and has no parent to consult or follow to understand that this is a very bad thing. What a healthy exchange of dialogue is, how to speak and respectfully disagree is not learned.
Much of the toxicity results from long term exposure to toxic behaviors and learned survival behaviors to enable the ability to survive the exchanges and situations.
The saying goes you are who you surround yourself with. The exchanges you have define who you are and how you will behave.