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The Impact Undocumented Status Can Have On Mental Health
KRWG-TV PBS Local ^
| December 4, 2014
| By SIMON THOMPSON
Posted on 12/04/2014 1:11:22 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Fear of being arrested and deported, family separation, and poverty just some of the daily anxieties faced by an estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the U.S. The stress can also take a toll on mental health.
New Mexico State University Family & Child Science professor Kourtney Vaillancourt says the psychological impact of living undocumented goes even further...and can adversely affect mental health.
"There is those additional stressors of being seperated from family, there is the stressors of kind of living in an ambigious state where you are not exactly sure what is going to happen. You may not have you know plans for the future, you can't plan because you don't know what is going to happen. So certainly there would be a increased risk for depression anxiety" she says.
Despite the higher psychiatric risk factors associated with being undocumented .... studies show mental health services are underutilized by those living in the United States without legal status.
(Excerpt) Read more at krwg.org ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; border; illegalaliens; kourtneyvaillancourt; mexico; newmexico; tyranny
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What about the impact of being wrong, in general?
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12/04/2014 3:53:01 PM PST
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
There’s nothing like a fully loaded EBT card to chase away the blues.
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12/04/2014 3:54:50 PM PST
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Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I’m sure the life of a bank robber is stressful too... but why should we care?
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
> Fear of being arrested and deported, family separation, and poverty just some of the daily anxieties...
...and illiterate graduates of public school suffer from low self-esteem.
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12/04/2014 4:54:26 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The Impact Undocumented Status Being A Criminal Can Have On Mental Health That's better. But I actually think it's backwards.
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12/04/2014 7:49:06 PM PST
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ChicagahAl
(Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ..
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
That is minor stuff.
Can you imagine the stress and anguish of people convicted of murder? Their whole life is left in shambles. Shouldn't we be more worried about them?
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12/08/2014 7:35:53 AM PST
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oldbrowser
(We have a rogue government in Washington)
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