Blame and personal responsibility were never the representative answers expected of scientific studies to explain maladaptive behaviors. In fact, these kinds of beliefs are products of a familiar habit among people; The human terrible tendency to blame others for everything that they can not reasonably explain. Therefore, these kinds of rhetorical explanations are nothing more than insensitive and abusive attitudes. Depending on what kind of maladaptive behavior we are tackling, we will provoke different psychologic and physiologic consequences for the victims that do not fit in a normality model of behavior established by societies. Negative comments tend to reinforce guilt and input labels on people contributing to the trivialization of important symptoms that may go unnoticed for a long time and increase mental issues.
Extremes or not, abnormal behaviors can develop due to biological or environmental factors that affect people's lives, leading them to severe cases of shyness, ostracism, phobias, or anxiety attacks, for example. There are no personal choices involving how your DNA will be expressed in your social interactions in the world. The symptoms that show that something must be going differently in people's brains can just suddenly happen with no apparent causes, sometimes. Therefore, identify the real factors to understand why people do what they do becomes an important part of seeking better ways of diagnosing what is wrong, seek for a good treatment to relieve the symptoms, and consistently address the problems that do not have apparent explanations but are an integrative part of what people are.
This is excellent, and the only idea I would add is that even environmental factors produce biological changes in the brain. Ultimately, even if the cause is external, the end result is still biological.
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