I know that my major depression dx was because of a situation tbat happened & also reslized later it was mostly related to the situation I was living in & surrounded by years later when I left that environment & got better. It was bad enough I ended up on permanent disability destroying my inability to function in the way necessary to hold down my computer enginerring career.

I think there are so many things in our own oersonal lives we dont even understand at the time that can negatively effect our mental health & drive us to have mental illness that can end up being treatable by just a change in the environment. If you dont get to the REAL underlying causes....& some cant be changed. Shoot, it took me 13 years before I had tje ability that started me on my healing road.

Im not talking about the mental illnesses that arent situational but actual chemical imbalances that situations didnt cause....those exist also.

Everyones lives are so messed up now, & with the stressful economy & pressures everywhere to label everything about ourselves instead of jyst being a person any more....society is breeding mental illnesses especially in the way of anxiety & depression....

I also believe that the crap that is being put into the foods for preserving it & coloring it & flavoring it are also adding to causes creating states of mental illnesses or syndroms.

ASD has gone through the roof. Sure there is more knowledge about the conditions making them easier to dx....but there has to be underlying causes along with that

This is My theory on this topic