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Research has looked at mental health of young people who are still dependent upon their parents for their economic position, because of the social decline associated with mental illness.
Mental illness itself is a significant contributory factor to child poverty. There’s an increasing interest in how chronic social stressors may interact with other factors to cause the development of schizophrenia. Given the huge over representation of unemployment and benefits’ dependence amongst those with mental illness, so this represents a significant number of children living in financially challenged households. Of course on top of alcohol or drug problems and personality disorders, quite a few children live with a parent who has longterm mental health problems. Now, a American study found that 68percentage of women and 57 of men with a mental illness are parents. For instance, the association was seen in a few immigrant groups across Europe. You see, it’s clear that a personal or family history of immigration is a risk factor for schizophrenia.
Living in poverty causes chronic stress and struggle and this may have an ultimate biological impact on brain function, particularly if experienced at certain critical points in development.
While in accordance with one hypothesis, schizophrenia is the result of chronic experience of social defeat disturbing dopaminergic function in the brain. Personal finances are consistently identified as a major source of difficulty and distress, when people using mental health services are asked about the major problems that concern them in their daily lives. Furthermore, concerns and anxieties regarding finance constitute a significant stressor.
South London and Maudsley Trust found that people diagnosed with serious mental illness had significantly reduced life expectancy. Whenever upbringing and subsequent lifestyle are possible major confounders, even if arguments relating its development to poverty are strong, the aetiology of mental illness is undoubtedly multifactorial and. Possible reasons for this are multifold. A well-known fact that is. Poverty is neither sufficient nor necessary to cause mental illness and the impact of social disadvantage may also be different for different mental illnesses. Highest reductions were found for men with schizophrenia and women with schizoaffective disorders. Yes, that’s right! Living with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder increases the risk of certain physical diseases.
Regardless, a society can be judged on how it treats its most disadvantaged.
As described in Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, the problems of poverty and social rehabilitation, or lack of it, as portrayed by Victor Hugo in Les Misérables, remain as pressing today. Besides, having mental illness has quite a lot of adverse effects on the ability to earn.
the Disability Discrimination Act effect on their ability to carry out normal ‘daytoday’ activities are considered to have a disability. And so it’s intended to offer protection but attitudinal changes towards disability and mental health lag behind legislation. So it’s intended to offer protection but attitudinal changes towards disability and mental health lag behind legislation. It’s an interesting fact that the Disability Discrimination Act effect on their ability to carry out normal ‘daytoday’ activities are considered to have a disability.