The Internal Cause Of Mental Illness

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What I consider a human service, as well as, a spiritual problem is mental illness. The internal cause for mental illness may vary, based on or depends on the specific disorder. Mental illness could be triggered by different biological, psychological, and environmental factors, which contributes to the advancement of mental disorders. The external cause could come from life’s circumstances such as: pain, bereavement, incapability and loss of independence (Stein, 2013).
My son was incarcerated for seven years, the loss of his independence contributed to his mental illness. From all the things that he had to endured, triggered his Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PTSD) and Bi-polar disorder. I believed what God said in the book of Matthew,

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