The Conceptualization of Social Distress Coping Disorders (SDCDs): Uncovering the Contemporary Salient Mental Health Threats Social Distress Coping Disorders.
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Since the history humanity, living conditions have been struggling
with harsh environmental and social conditions. Stressors included
extreme cold, extreme heat, heavy rain, droughts, famines and vector borne
infectious diseases, wars and predators. In contemporary world some
of these stressors significantly reduced their impact on the quality of life
while new ones emerged including social, economic and political stressors.
The complex relationship between continued exposure to these stressors,
normal human biochemical and mental processes and the counteraction of
the innate human defense mechanisms lead either to the suppression of the
effect of these stressors or the failure to do so that cumulatively develop
into physiological or mental impairments. This paper aims at the
conceptualization of mental illnesses and associated somatic illnesses
that result from the failure of the body’s coping mechanisms to chronic
stressors embedded in contemporary political systems. These diseases have
been collectively called Social Distress Coping Disorders (SDCDs) and
include Alcoholism (SDCD-A), Prostitution (SDCD-P), Drug abuse
(SDCD-D), Alcoholism and Drugs abuse (SDCD-AD), Anxiety disorders
(SDCD-X), Hypertension (SDCD-H), Mood disorders (SDCD-M), Sleep
disorders (SDCD- S), Social media addiction (SDCD-SM), Gambling
disorder (SDCD-G), and Psychosomatic disorders (SDCD-PS). The
current approaches to these conditions undermine the politically driven
chronic socio-economic stressful conditions that are triggers of the network
of symptoms that maintain these mental and somatic illnesses and the
fact that most of them co-occur with others as a complex multiple mental
disorder (MMD). Looking at their global ever increasing prevalence,
the shortcomings of the current biopsychosocial model are addressed by
interventional approach as proposed by the biopsychopolitical mode
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