Stress is a killer

Shavaun Scott
3 min readNov 26, 2021

You’ve likely got more going on than you realize

Photo by Usman Yousaf on Unsplash

(Excerpt from my book The Minds of Mass Killers: Understanding and Interrupting the Pathway to Violence. The holidays bring incredible stress for many people due to unhappy/unhealthy family dynamics, financial limitations, and unrealistic expectations.)

We can be too quick to diagnose someone experiencing any psychological distress as mentally ill when, in…

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Shavaun Scott

Psychotherapist and writer, exploring uncommon bravery and shining light on the human experience.