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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: 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.