Reposted from Safehaven Security

Three Cornerstones of Secure Mental Health Related to Violent Behavior

There are many divergent and competing views of how to understand human behavior, “mental health,” and how it applies to violence. At times we may be at risk of overthinking things and missing some foundational and obvious mental health aspects that are right in front of us. The three foundations discussed in this article are sleep disturbance, co-regulating relational connections, and grief/trauma.

Illegal violence is always a mental health issue and likely has an association with all three of these foundations (among others). While there are hundreds of theories of what goes wrong in mental health (particularly to create violence), ironically it could be argued that it is a lack of safety itself that cyclically creates such a lack of safety. At the brain’s most basic and highest prioritized level is one’s own safety and survival instincts. Unsafe people feel unsafe.

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