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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday May 30 2017, @04:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the we're-really-out-to-get-them dept.

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From Inverse.com:

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).


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  • (Score: 1) by TaxiCabJesus on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:54PM (6 children)

    by TaxiCabJesus (6455) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:54PM (#517854) Homepage

    > I was twenty when I got sick (Score: 2)
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    > Although I eventually realized that I was hypomanic when I was eighteen, just about to graduate from high school.

    You used to play with mercury, correct? How old were you at that time?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning [wikipedia.org]

    I think that most mental illnesses are environmental.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:00PM (#517861)

    CHANGE PLACES!!

  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:13PM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:13PM (#517869) Journal

    Why yes, our 5th grade science teacher gave us mercury to play with. Along with flashlight batteries and bulbs and wires.
    Naturally we did the first thing 5th graders would do, and spilled some/most of the mercury.

    What?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:36PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:36PM (#517876)

      My high school chemistry teacher played with the mercury himself and jealously forbade anyone else to touch it. He also liked to claim he had independently discovered the strong nuclear force when he deduced neutrons were clingy.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:04PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:04PM (#517883)

        Christmas tree tinsel used to be made from thin strips of lead until about 1970. I used to roll it up in a ball and chew on it like it was chewing gum. I'm fine except for short term memory loss and

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:53PM

      I don't remember the clinical term. Adult inhalation has different symptoms.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:52PM

    (I spilled liquid mercury onto my family's carpet. The vapor can be deadly.)

    My hair was noticeably thinning starting at 14. That kind of hair loss is usual thyroid cancer or radiation poisoning. While I was distressed by it, it never occurred to me it could be the mercury. No one else brought it to my attention.

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