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Schizophrenia strikes hard, vicious, and late. A person with the disorder can get all the way through childhood and their teen years without any hallucinations or major disconnects from reality. Then, right on the cusp of adulthood, symptoms of the severe mental disorder can emerge with powerful debilitating effects. Until now, doctors have had no useful, consistent way to see it coming.
But that could change, according to a massive JAMA Psychiatry study published on Wednesday. The research details the first major results from a new branch of personality research that might lead scientists to catch schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses early –- and perhaps even treat them before they emerge.
The researchers, led by University College London psychiatrist Joseph F. Hayes, Ph.D., found a significant link between a range of teenage personality traits and schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder (an illness that includes symptoms of schizophrenia and certain mood disorders), bipolar disorder, and a group of other illnesses lumped together as "nonaffective psychotic illnesses" (meaning they include psychotic symptoms but not mood disorders).
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:14PM (8 children)
Yes! Tell HR to add the telltale personality traits to the industry standard screening questions. We will eliminate all non-team-players from hiring consideration, forever!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:22PM (2 children)
It has been said that modern man overwhelmed the earth and its various hominids due to modern man's affinity for social behavior. Slowly but surely, independence from collective thought is being wiped out—you are either happy to agree with the "mainstream", or your ability to reproduce is significantly hampered.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:49PM (1 child)
That trend exists, but it seems to be a conscious product of a system of control, ie., if I benefit from a system that funnels the fruit of your labors to me, why would I ever want you to think that the world can be any other way?
There's another trend churning away below the surface of that narrative--incredible potential for productive independence. Its salients are the maker movement, open source, and additive manufacturing. Most of us haven't really plumbed its depths yet, despite our being intelligent and educated, because we're not conditioned to think that way or approach the world that way. From the moment we were born we were told to toe somebody else's line and do what we're told, to go work for someone else and give the best of ourselves to some invisible power (of whatever variety you like). The potential is there, though, to unlock the greater part of human genius which has always been blocked by self-interested parties.
Who knows which trend will win out in the short- to medium term. I know the tension is killing me.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:23PM
As you imply, self-interest is not the problem; rather, the problem is other-disinterest—when you don't care about others' rights.
When a person truly fights to preserve his own rights, is he also necessarily fighting to preserve other people's rights; after all, if someone else's rights are protected, then how can one's own rights be ensured?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:31PM (1 child)
Haha, yep. How much do you want to bet that their diagnostic criteria are (pick one or more):
[ ] Politically charged in general
[ ] Personality traits that commonly emerge in the teenage years and are generally transient
[ ] Personality traits that may be correlated with voting for political parties other than the Rs and Ds
[ ] Personality traits that may be correlated with artistic or philosophical pursuits
[ ] Personality traits that may be correlated with activism later in life
How much do you want to bet that their cure (pick one or more):
[ ] Involves uncompensated manual labor
[ ] Involves waking up absurdly early in the morning (as in you'll never wake up that early again in your whole life unless you plow snow for a living)
[ ] Significantly contributes to schizophrenia actually manifesting
[ ] Significantly contributes to a different kind of mental illness manifesting
[ ] Would be considered child abuse if not for the guise of medicine
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @05:45PM
[ ] Obey authority
[ ] Do what you're told
[ ] Don't ask questions
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 30 2017, @06:52PM (2 children)
If a commander has it in for someone of lower rank, he can report that they have a personality disorder.
IMHO paranoid personality disorder should make one a better soldier.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:06PM
Paranoid personality disorder makes a soldier go Full Metal Jacket.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday May 30 2017, @11:43PM
This is correct, and has been used insidiously as a tool to thin the ranks without providing due benefits.
What they will do is have a quack rubber-stamp a "personality disorder" (well, no shit, people who participate in combat are going to be a bit fucked-up) and then accuse the serviceman of not disclosing it up-front, in violation of Article 83 of the UCMJ, then boot them while denying benefits.
There is a similar well-documented abuse of rubber-stamp shrinks in the intelligence agencies as well -- you see something illegal and/or unconstitutional going on, report it, they refer you to their shrink, their shrink determines that you are "paranoid" and unfit for duty, you lose access to all secured areas and go sit in purgatory doing nothing all day until you decide to leave.