Mental Health, Trauma and Trauma Related Disorders

Abstract

Mental health is a complex phenomena including life satisfaction and subjective well-being. Satisfaction with life reflects the degree to which external living-conditions 'fit' with inner life-abilities. Subjective well-being refers to how people evaluate their lives, and include variables such as life satisfaction, marital satisfaction, positive moods and emotions, lack of depression, lack of anxiety (Diener, 2004). The investigations on people suffering from mood and anxiety disorders abound in psychology and psychiatry literatures (Seligman & Diener, 2002). The interaction between individuals and their environment generates both happiness and psychopathology. Traumas may easily influence negatively the interaction. In other words, psychological traumas as one of the crucial dimension of mental health may cause some impairment in the intra and interpersonal adaptive process of human functioning (Guney, et. al., 2010).