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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).
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:43PM (1 child)
when I was diagnosed they were quite emphatic about how I had to take my lithium, and why. But they didn't say a thing about Prolixin.
Lithium both prevents and treats bipolar mania. Prolixin is for psychotic symptoms that Schizoaffective share with Schizophrenics - paranoia and hallucinations mostly.
The day I was discharged I went right to the pharmacy to get my lithium filled, but didn't ask for Prolixin. I just didn't see the point of taking it.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @10:47PM
Was that the day you became a popular street clown?