Mental health issues can manifest in various forms, impacting individuals' lives in profound ways. Severe depression often leads to overwhelming feelings of despair and hopelessness, while generalized anxiety disorder causes persistent stress and anxiety.
Feeling like one has not lived up to his or her high expectations or those of another.
Being socially isolated, living alone or having few close friends or family members.
Having a parent who died by suicide
A perception (usually mistaken) that they are alone in the world and that no one really cares about them.
Traumatic experience during childhood, such as a bereavement.
Bipolar disorder
Is when a person swings from feeling very high and happy to feeling very depressed.
Schizophrenia
Is a long-term mental health condition that causes hallucinations (seeing or hearing things that are not real), delusions (believing in things that are not true) and changes in behaviour.
Generalised anxiety disorder
Is when a person has persistent, recurring feelings of stress and anxiety.
Severe depression
severe symptoms of despair and hopelessness that interfere with their life.