We will like to think that we have built our environments in this way that they minimize the factors that could result to psychological and behavioral disturbances among individuals. Thus, optimizing our mental health. For many children, symptoms of psychological disorders are linked to the negative stressors in the environment. Additionally, psychosocial structures in cities where most of us are aware that there is poor housing expose children to violence that could detriment their mental health. In the United States alone, one in every five children suffers severe physical abuse and one in every group of five lives below the poverty line. You see, repetitive exposure to violence or to the activities of a dysfunctional environment could also contribute to the development of severe dissociative disorders. Besides, the rate of victimization within intimate relationships only reinforces the dissociative response. Children who repeatedly experienced sexual trauma or sexual abuse are most possibly to develop dissociative disorders similar to multiple personality disorder. These mental illnesses root from the child’s effort to deny the violence, abuse, or trauma they experience as coping mechanism so as to protect his mental wellness.
Similar to irrational beliefs on selfblame, irrational explanations on traumatic experiences, maladaptive behaviors, unconscious guilt, shame and doubt about oneself. Children experience all sorts of negative environments including war and violence, daily stress, economic problems and accelerating negative effects of technological changes. Among these, the most aggravated is the disabling relationship he has with his immediate environment his parents, his family and his direct interaction to his society.