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 ...
>> The stress can also take a toll on mental health.
Tell you what, the @#$%^&* illegal alien “problem” is sure as hell driving ME crazy.
It’s called the “Liberals lured me to an illusory utopia blues”
Exactly! We re not here to make illegals feel good about breaking our laws.
Somebody borrowed my Give-A-Sh_t meter, so I can’t tell you precisely how little I care, but I’m pretty sure it’s not much.
ONLY U.S. taxpayer funds can cure.
GTFOOMC!
Poor babies! They jump the fence and immediately get a better standard of living and welfare handouts and become stressed about losing them.
What about the mental health impacts of living in a 3rd world $hithole? I and every other American citizen are suffering because of the imported Democrat constituency.
Boo effin’ hoo.
Not cutting it, MSM.
Try again.
Amazingly simple, ain't it?
WTF is that?!?!?!?!
Screw the health of the illegals! What about WTP This business of not knowing what to expect next from this so-called administration, the blood pressure rising due to their whims of change, ulcers forming due to their criminality. What about the health of American Citizens? We now have ebola, the respiratory virus, scabies, fleas and more than likely suffer from mental stress as well. If little o wished to make America suffer...consider it done.
They sure have caused me mental stress.
I'm gonna borrow that one ...
She was near the tackle box when it exploded.
What I find bizarre is we have an illegal alien in the Oval Office telling American citizens they have no right to make decisions on their/our borders.
Another credit to US society.
So the sounds of footsteps in the hall would keep me on edge, because I don't know if the police are going to cart me off to jail.
Here's an insane idea: Don't break the law by coming here illegally.
Come in the legal way, and Americans will welcome you with open arms.
We need good, non-diseased, non-criminal, non-rapists, non-drug dealers who will work hard and provide a valued skill.
Obey the law.
That way you can rest your weary head at night.
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