THE QUESTION WAS: WHY DOES MENTAL ILLNESS SEEM UNPREDICTABLE AND SUDDEN?
ANSWER: Because you start out slowly. It builds up, and then one day you just notice it. I do want to say that if you are talking about depression or anxiety you are not talking about mental illness. Very few people have actually mental illness.
When you understand what is going on, it is not really unpredictable. It really is quite predictable. If it seems sudden, you have gotten to a point where you have ramped up the use of certain actions to fill a need or meet a goal.
Think of drug use. People will use a little of a drug to get high. As time goes on, you need more and more to get high. This is the same for things like anxiety, depression, OCD, ADD. You need to use them more and more to get the desired result. People do not suddenly have a drug problem. They started out slowly and the need and use of drugs grew.
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