What Environmental Factors Contribute to Mental Illness?
Certain triggering factors could be significant stressors precipitating a mental illness such as 1. Losses experiences (physical loss after a trauma, loss of significant others, separation, etc 2. Chronic threats 3. Long-term exposure to traumatic conditions 4. Harmful family dynamic 5. Living in extreme deprivation and poverty 6. Alcohol and substance misuse 7. Severe neglect 8. War, natural disasters, accidents, etc 9. Chronic pain and incapacitating chronic illness 10. Social discrimination for example towards minorities