A lady acquaintance of mine told me that her husband had just been diagnosed of suffering from mental imbalance, whether that means the same as dementia or not I have no idea. So I checked it up, and found that there are 6 factors that could lead to mental imbalance. None of these would help him now that he has got it, but it might help others to be aware what might cause it ...
1. Living in the city - 8.63% of urban-dwellers in Spain have had some mental problems according to last year's figures. While the figures of people living in the country is 7.5%.
~ This is to me more obviously understandable, not so much the following factors.
2. Being widow/widower or divorced (nothing to do with the above mentioned husband) - 43.1% of widowed and 29.6% divorced suffer psychological disorder, while the percentage of couples is 16.8% only.
~ Stay married, you probably suffer lots of headaches, hoarse voice for arguing so much, or even an occasional black eye, but no mental imbalance.
3. Depression and disorder of alimentation are more common in women, with 71% and 91.26% respectively, while men commit suicide 3 times more, also more problems with alcohol and drugs.
~ The figures are alarming! What one gets told here is that women worry so much about their shape, they alternate eating nothing with binges, so weights go up and down like a Yo-Yo causing depression, while men are cowards who, when incapable of confronting or solving problems, indulge in alcohol and drugs, when that got out of hand, kill themselves. Aren't their sane and sensible men and women about?
4. The climate - According to science of meteo-psychiatry (I have never even heard this term before), the frequency of psychiatric alterations is more severe in Nordic countries than in the Mediterranean areas.
~ What I wish to know is why. There's a periodic strong wind called 'Tramontana' in Catalunya where I live and, nearly always without hardly any exception, I get a nasty headache, even before the wind actually starts. As if I could forecast it. Why should that be?
5. Education - People of higher level of social-culture tend to suffer certain type of disorders related with anxiety, self guilt and depression. While the ones with lower level, is associated with symptoms of schizoid or paranoids.
~ I supposed that means I got a middle education maybe. Certain aspects in my life can be said in slight disorder, but there are periods when everything is in perfect order; occasionally anxious or depressed about something, but also capable of letting my hair down, throw caution to the wind, and be utterly crazy like a March hare.
6. Unemployment - 70% of the mental patients are unemployed, according to statistics.
~ How clever this conclusion. How can these people work if they are not mentally balanced? Are they unemployed because of the sickness? Or do they become sick because they are unemployed?
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