Everyone carries traits of stability and instability, with tendencies to panic, fear, obsess, catastrophize, or become depressed. Severe trauma responses can arise even in otherwise stable people after adverse events, including non-life-threatening ones. Mental balance depends on family history, natural events, individual stress responses, and distress tolerance thresholds. Genetic and environmental factors can predispose people to temporary or chronic mental disturbances that impair daily functioning. Many people live on the edge of coping or dysfunction and often remain silent about symptoms due to fear of ridicule. Emotional vulnerabilities can be reframed as resourceful strengths that enhance motivation, creativity, and adaptability.
Generally speaking, everyone has characteristics of mental stability and instability. Everyone has the tendency to panic, to be fearful, to be obsessive, to catastrophize, to get depressed. Even the most ostensibly even-keeled individual can develop severe trauma response symptoms from an adverse event, even from a non-life-threatening one. Much of mental balance is based on family history, naturally occurring events, how we each idiosyncratically respond to stressors, and what our threshold is for distress tolerance.
As a result, many people live right on the edge of coping with the ups and downs of life or falling into dysfunction. There's still a large population of people who remain silent about mental symptoms for fear of ridicule or rejection. But what if your supposed deficiencies are seen as valuable illustrations of resourcefulness instead of shortcomings? What if you are actually wisely reacting to an unpredictable world with a fervent eye?
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