Do the effects of suffering from mental illness cause stress in your life?

How so?

If so do you think this stress makes your mental illness symptoms worse?

If so does this stress cause other physical problems, cause disease or contribute to disease?

If you are taking psyche meds and they are working does that reduce stress in your life?

How do the effects of your mental illness effect your life over all?

There are many ways to treat mental illness and to deal with stress but this is the psyche med section and I am curious if psyche meds have helped your mental illness and if this has reduced your overall stress.

I can tell your that depression and anxiety have had an enormous impact on my life. Most recently I lost two jobs in a row due to missing to much work due to depression. They had to fire me. I was unemployed and collected unemployment but that was only half my wage and I could not pay all my bills. The depression was not going away it was getting worse. I was forced to move home to my family because I could not pay my rent and I was suicidally depressed. At one point my unemployment benefits ran out and I have no income at all. The depression didn't go away it got worse and lasted 8 months. I could not look for other employment.

The depression and anxiety caused me to become unemployed and to eventually lose all income. I was looking at becoming homeless real quick and this created an enormous amount of stress for me and probably made my depression even worse. I had to reach out to my family and thank god they were there for me.

Depression/unemployment/financial stress/ financial stress is the absolute worse for me. I have to be able to pay my own way somehow or I feel like a total loser over it and this triggers more anxiety and depression. Viscous cycle to get into. Seems there is no way out of it.

So depression has a very real impact on an important part of my life and this creates and enormous amount of stress. How does this stress effect me other than making my mental illness worse? I know it makes my mental illness worse but how do the symptoms of my mental illness and the stress effect all the other systems of my body. This is what I am trying to figure out. I plan on posting more on this, but now I am tired. So good night.