Is mental illness caused by drug use?

seriously the doctors have a money motive with sick people...they won't advise how to cure themselves by eating properly and lifestyle changes. Resistant starch diets can create butyrate and it can balance neurotransmitters and balance hormones, among other things. Many are low in B-complex, magnesium and Vitamin D and deficiencies can affect moods. Many factors that taking a damn drug will not cure.

The "rates" don't matter; the apparent rise in mental disorders is happening because drug companies put pressure on the medical professionals to create new pathological labels for any condition they've got a drug for; for instance, people who are now labelled with "social anxiety disorder" used to be called "very shy." Pathologizing and then drugging people to deal with their life problems is an unfortunately growing trend. Drug companies love it for the profits; when they can pathologize a condition and then sell a drug for it, they get very rich by creating a whole new "disease" or "disorder". People in general like it because they are now seen more sympathetically by others; it's not their fault, they have a disorder.

To explain why mental illness happens to some people and not to others, the best example I can think of is the diathesis-stress model. This implies that everyone starts out with a certain genetic predisposition to mental illness (their diathesis). For some people that's very low, and for some people that predisposition is very strong, and they may even be more likely to develop a certain illness based on family history. Based on environmental influences like trauma or drug use, people become more and more stressed even if they don't feel it or can't tell, and some people have a lower tolerance for psychological stress which means they may eventually be more likely to develop some sort of problem. It's all very individual.

TL;DR it's complicated and I'm sure people are trying to figure it out, but there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

edit to add: greenmountaingal brings up another very good point and explains it better than I could :)

I have to wonder if some problems are caused because they won't get off of their Smart phones, have read that it's leading to depression and one young lady I know is showing symptoms of it.

Debated in mental health field if drugs cause the mental illness or it was always there and they are self medicating.
I am sure some could cause serious damage to the brain.

It can be. LSD can cause permanent mental illness, and you have 'amphetamine psychosis', and a few other drug induced mental illnesses.

mental illness is being diagnosed more and more by doctors and mental health professionals

I dont think so. Many are mentally ill because of the fucked up society.
If we would feel well we would try the drug and maybe have a nice experience and then don't need it anymore.

I mean we just take the drug because it feels then so much better than reality.

If reality would be better then life would be our drug and we would be all healthy and smiling.

But also our relationships are fucked up often i think. So many things are wrong
When we're they right?

Perhaps it's due to the fact that people are living far past their life expectancy.

Yes. It can be. You have LSD psychosis, and amphetamine psychosis. "Permatweek" is a very real condition that most Americans who haven't led sheltered lives have seen.

No. Drug use is historically down. Mental illness is caused by parts of your brain not working which is rooted in genetics or things such as trauma

Drugs can mess with body chemistry and the brain's chemistry as well so...

no but I am not surprised to see its prevalence in the mentally ill.

Sometimes yes, but the rates today are not caused by drugs.