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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: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday May 30 2017, @08:03PM (1 child)
It seems to me that mental illness should refer to something that negatively affects the individual's ability to function. To take care of themselves, etc. The mental illness should not be a crime, but an illness.
Crimes could ensue as a result of having untreated mental illness. But then criminal laws have been broken. A court may see fit to force treatment, rather than punishment, if the crime was a result of mental illness.
While mental illness should refer to things that negatively affect oneself, Crime is the word for things that negatively affect others. Some might argue that racism, sexism and voting republican might qualify as crimes. But one's unspoken opinion, not put into action, does not hurt anyone and should not constitute a crime. Think or believe whatever you want about me. I don't care. But if I can't travel, or get housing, employment or other public goods merely because of who I am, then I think a line has been crossed. Whether or not it is mental illness, racism, sexism or voting republican. That's the point where reaction becomes necessary, regardless of the state of mind of the person doing the thing to hurt you.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @09:33PM
Every teenage personality trait identified in the study will preclude employment in later life. That is the very definition of negatively affecting ability to function.