I think this study say a lot that HealingAndSuffering posted in the Current Events forum.

Study in Mice Raises Question: Could PTSD Involve Immune Cell Response to Stress?

I feel that 'prolonged defeat" has a lot to do with how different individuals can eventually struggle with mental illness of some kind. Of course not "all" mental illnesses, but I think that quite a few can.

I think that if a parent consistently just barks orders to a child and expects a child to perform for them constantly, it can be a beginning of that child forming "low self esteem". I do know that children do like "structure" because they feel safer if they have things that are more predictable in their daily lives. However, there also has to be a genuine effort made to also interact with a child in engaging them to express their needs and desires, verses constantly having to conform and meet up to some kind of expectation. Some children learn differently and should not feel bad if they don't always get A's in school. Learning should not be something that is constantly "demanded" but instead should be something children slowly learn to actually "enjoy" doing. We all "learn to learn" and that is actually what education is all about.

OE