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Case Study: I think that Mental Disorders develop through nature and nurture. With my own experiences, I watched a lot of chaos in childhood, and I developed the "people pleaser" trait as a protective factor. I believed that going out of my way to prevent conflict and any other problems would make me safe. However, although it 'protected' me while I was young, not dealing with stressful events that happened in childhood made me depressed, anxious, and have very low self-esteem later in my teenager years. I experienced a sense of abandonment growing up with my mom moving away after the divorce, and my sister getting kicked out of the house over and over. I now have developed an anxious attachment in my relationships and have been on and off antidepressants for a couple of years to help treat my general anxiety disorder and depression. I believe I am the way I am based on how I was raised and my surroundings growing up. Like in the textbook, Chapter 15 discusses the diathesis-stress model, which "integrates biological and psychosocial factors to predict the likelihood of a disorder. " (15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders - Psychology | OpenStax Links to an external site.) This supports my ideas that Mental Disorders are developed in through nature and nurture. The diathesis-stress mode also says, "...more likely than others to develop a disorder when faced with adverse environmental or psychological events (i.e., stress), such as childhood maltreatment, negative life events, trauma, and so on." (15.3 Perspectives on Psychological Disorders - Psychology | OpenStax Links to an external site.) Like I said above, I believe life factors are

Question: What can really cause a Mental Disorder. However, I do believe that genetically, if mental illness runs in the family, you will most likely experience, but it's because of our environment and psychosocial factors is what really determines how extreme a mental illness can be.