5 Psych Disorders Have Common Genetics

[Double_V]

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/37584

 

[pjoa09]

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/GeneralPsychiatry/37584

That explains a lot, I have symptoms of ADHD-PI, autism, and I occasionally get very low. I am pretty sure I don't have Timothy syndrome, I haven't died yet.

My aunt is a schizophrenic too.

 

[Philovitist]

Woah, you've got risk factors for lots of mental problems. :S

I'm not sure if the common genetic basis helps make mental disorders more comorbid, but I hope we'll find out soon.

 

[Reluctantly]

From the video:
"We at this point don't know the basic biological bases of most psychiatric illnesses."

This is the sad state of psychiatry. People are assumed to have an illness and then they go looking to prove it through genetics or some bodily function, often forgetting that correlation doesn't always mean causation. Well, that's stupid. Extreme stress and damage to the body can cause symptoms of mental illness and that doesn't mean such people are genetically disposed or have an illness as much as they need to live healthier. People have been known to develop schizophrenia due to sleep deprivation, for example. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/schizophrenia-sleep-insomnia_n_1408207.html

"We've been thinking of sleep disruption as one of the genetic, developmental and environmental contributors to the development of these appalling conditions," said Foster, who is a circadian and visual neuroscientist at the University of Oxford.