Mental illness and kabat zinn
MENTAL ILLNESS IS a leading cause of disability and premature mortality in America and contributes to a significant portion of health care resources. Studies in neuropsychiatry and neurobiology show that serious mental illness, including mood and anxiety disorders, diminishes a vulnerable individual’s neurobiological threshold for environmental stressors. This vulnerability results in a chronic course of periods of relapse and remittance of symptoms. The recurrent nature of these episodes of psychiatric symptoms are associated with varying degree of functional disability characterizing the chronic course of mental illnesses (Teasdale et al 2000 and Young et al 2001). Effective interventions for the treatment of ...