Negative mental factors can lead a person to experience intense distress. For example, aversion can lead to envy and contempt, whereas attachment can lead to dependency.

The Impact of Negative Mental Factors on the Individual

Aversion, or hostility, is a mental factor that describes what happens when a person becomes so angry that they perceive everything around them negatively. 

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There are three basic negative mental factors:

- Illusion/ignorance
- Attachment/desire
- Aversion/hostility

Examples of Negative Mental Factors

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Illusion, or ignorance, is a mental factor that involves having faulty perception of reality. The individual is not able to see things clearly when they experience illusion.

Illusion/Ignorance

Attachment, or desire, happens when an individual experiences a selfish desire for an object. The person's reality is altered because they want something so much that they idealize it and fixate on it.

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