Anxiety at best is a secondary issue to a root cause of issues.
Interesting but do you genuinely think that the root cause of issues cause the mental health problems or do you think that the anxiety resulting from the root cause of issues then creates the mental health problems.
Because that is what I think.
That is to say, some people may have been faced with an abusive childhood but manage somehow not to develop anxiety over it - i.e. those people then seem not to develop mental health problems. I come into contact quite regularly with people from East Africa who have had traumatic childhoods (parents murdered in front of their eyes, rape, instability, refugee camps etc.) and there are, without doubt, those who don't quite manage to recover. They remain unmotivated, damaged, almost catatonic in some cases - but there are others whose mental health seems to remain strong. They overcome their difficulties to become leaders in their communities, doctors of hospitals, get scholarships to do engineering degrees at Oxford - amazing, stunning, life-startling way to overcome their circumstances. They seem to me those who have managed to somehow to have a hold over anxiety - rather than the anxiety managing to take a hold of them....
.... so that is how I see it. But I really want to hear how you see it. Bad or good analogy, I don't care.
But what you are saying is that the mental health problem was caused by a preceding incident so one can have mental unhealth with their being no anxiety as the catalyst.
I think that could be right too - I feel the majority is anxiety based but I have no reason beyond my own thoughts to think that. I have done no research and I am not a psychiatrist or psychologist.
I wish you could explain further how you see it - I would very much appreciate it!
CJ
