Question

1. What are the purpose of studying psychological distress.

2 what are the key findings.

3
any recommendation for people

Answer 1

Answer 1.

psychological distress, also called mental distress is a term used to describe a wide range of symptoms and experiences of a person's internal emotional and mental life that are commonly held to be troublling or disturbing, confusing or out of the ordinary.

It is used, both by some mental health practitioners and users of mental health services as it purports to offer a wider scope and social acceptance for the individuals’s unique experience than the related term mental illness. Mental illness refers to a specific set of medically defined conditions. While an individual in mental distress may exhibit some of the symptoms described in psychiatry, such as: anxiety, hallucination, depression and so on, she or he may not actually be ‘ill’ in a medical sense.

The purpose behind using psychological distress as a labelling category is that it helps to adddress the influence of Certain common Life situations such as: bereavement, stress, lack of sleep, use of drugs or alcohol, abuse or traumatic accident which can be emotionally upsetting and induce mental distress. This may be something which resolves without further medical intervention. Moreover, it also makes it easier for people to relate to their difficult life situation since everyone experiences distress at different times. Thus as a term, distress fits better with the social model of disability.