ABSTRACT
The distresses are biological and psychological is to say nothing of moment. Everything human is biological and psychological. It adds nothing to the discussion of human affairs to call a phenomenon like distress biological or psychological unless mental health professionals are very precise about what additional meanings they intend to add by saying that. In the mental health system, and woven throughout the history of theorizing about mental health and mental disorders, little or none of this basic evolutionary distress is taken into account. Life causes distress and distress then causes “symptoms.” The mental health profession has lost its way and has chosen to focus on the symptoms and not the distress. As a society, we treat distress as surprising and unnatural when it is instead completely predictable and natural.
