User:Maria.arriaga22/Stress-related disorders

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Anxiety, PTSD, Depression and Trauma are among different stress-related disorders that millions of people deal with each day. With OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) though, different institutes like the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences sees it as an stress-related disorder. With the WHO (World Health Organization), unfortunately they exclude OCD as being considered a disorder. Research has focused on two primary contributing factors to this psychopathology, genetic vulnerability and environmental stressors.

Depression is where you feel low and it affects the way you think, behave, and act. This does affect more than 280 million people. Those who deal with depression can also experience the loss of motivation or interest in normal activities, hopelessness and sadly suicidal thoughts. There are many life events that can cause depression like neglect, abuse, childbirth (postpartum), unemployment, loosing a loved one, financial difficulties, bullying, etc.

PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) is basically a mental and behavior disorder that occurs from experiencing different traumatic events like assault, war, domestic violence, abuse, etc. Different symptoms from this can include painful thoughts or dreams that are related from the event, trauma related cues that involve distress, using more of the fight-or-flight response, being at risk for suicide and self-harm, etc.



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Research is being done to focus on two different factors into finding the source of psychopathology. These two are known to be genes and stress. For many years, the model that has been used for a long time with psychiatric disorders is called the 'diathesis-stress' hypothesis. The diathesis-stress hypothesis states that genes predisposing an individual to stress-related disorders combined with experiencing adversity (both used independently and in groups)increase the chance for developing the disorder. The threshold being crossed would be the result of this matter. Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia include a risk factor leaning towards stress as being the main factor for these two disorders. Family and twin studies have been used to test the relationship between genetic factors and different stress-related disorders like PTSD, Anxiety, and Depression, demonstrating how these disorders are inherited through the generations.

During the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic, the effects from it in terms of social distancing, events being cancelled, classes moving online, etc. caused a lot of stress and fear for everyone. Looking at the view for teachers, classes moving online caused a lot of stress for them especially with figuring out how to set their lesson plans so that students wouldn't fall behind.