Why Successful People Tend to Encounter Mental Health Issue

Successful people is the person who achieved their life goals or someone who is capable of fulfilling the planned event who has been fighting for in their life. For the result of the achievement, this people will have the high self-worth and pride. There are lot of achievement but the common one is in the field of business and entertainment. They became the spotlight of world and all eyes on them. Business man who created famous company which lead them to become billionaire such as Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Steve Ballmer and etc. In the field of entertainment there are actor and musician such as Robert Downey Junior, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande. As people who receive all the attention from the whole world, people often think they must be live the happiest and peacefully.

When in reality, successful people tend to have problem or struggle with their mental health issue.

Why? Take a look at 4 reasons on why they have it.

1. The goals

on May 24, 2015, Austen from Silicon Valley ended his own life. Austen is an entrepreneur and also the contributor of the successful of Silicon Valley. He is struggle with mental illness because of the pressures of running a start-up. Running a start up business means he already set up the goal, to make the business successful. Of course, this will lead to several things in the progress. No matter how genius you are as a person, there must be lot of obstacles to face. Challenge and competency. People who have desire to be successful will fight from the beginning in order to achieved them. But these things might be overwhelmed. The pressure is really hard the point they feel struggle and suffering.

2. Expectation

Once the person labelled as successful then people will fix their eyes on this person. “What will this person do?” “What kind of project will they do in the future?” It means they were expected to create another masterpiece. The same as before or perhaps with the development. For famous celebrity such as musician, people will expect more things to come up. A good music and another good music. The artist will work every single day to fulfil this expectation. Of course, they want to please the public and do not want to lose fame. As lot of person look forward into it, often an artist encounter mental health issue. Not into the project but also to their behavior. Celebrity should be act as a perfect figure who always smile and showing good attitude. This stereotype become the burden for them.

3. Constantly Working Without Resting

Celebrity or Business man always working. Since their career is the number one priority in life, maintaining it would be a decent thing to do. Many of them end up being alone. According to Psychological Medicine, it was reported that people who were lonely are more likely to encounter depression, anxiety disorders and other mental health problems. In line with this statement, lot of those figure chose to be alone and only focus on themselves.

4. They Joy is Gone

The phrase “money can’t buy happiness” is indeed true. Because for billionaire or people who have the highest rate of money, the joy of having it is gone. The luxury life style and expensive stuff. For them, it is just an ordinary thing and will eventually fulfill their every day life. A philosophy of money is change for them and it is no longer a source of happiness. They still have pressure, struggle, and the other difficulties.