Socioeconomic status of the mentally ill - cause or result?
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lack of ability to work causes the poverty
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Absolutely!\n\nI have a degree in "mind and body transformational psychology", and a lot illnesses are caused my mental, and emotional distress.  \n\nWhen you are not happy, you are out of balance, and it will cause minor medical conditions, that that can turn into major medical conditions.  \n\nObesity is one of the fastest growing medical diseases, and much of it is caused by stress, or abuse.
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This is true in the United States, on a percentage basis of their total population.\nSome correlation can be found in educational opportunity and income.  Other correlation can be found in lopsided enforcement statistics indicating racial profiling.  Some causes can be found in media influences.\n\nThere is no science that can be brought to bear on social problems, so we thrash about with theories and theories, and no real results-based analysis is ever done.  (Same as education problems, see this week's Time Magazine, Apr 17)\nThis country was born with a defect of racial injustice, and although legally this defect has been removed, it still has not healed.
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i dont think so. why would you think people in other countries and other cultures are lower than your country? based on what? money? standard of living? average population happiness level? stressfull level and divorce rate? number of criminal and prison? average disposable income? nuclear power? morale? spiritual? EQ? IQ?
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It is being studied all over the world but nobody knows yet what causes schizophrenia exactly. It seems though that there is a genetic predisposition with certain things that might trigger that gene.
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Mental asylum.\nA better class of people!
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Mental illness can affect anyone.  It doesn't matter what race you are.
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because they're mentally ill.
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This is a tricky subject.  I've worked with the homeless and many actually prefer to live on the streets and wouldn't use or care for housing if they had it.  Many of the homeless are also mentally ill.  Tackle that challenge, they can become productive and turn it around.
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Yes I did.  I wish more people knew that people with schizophrenia are not violent people, not usually.  It's actually very rare.  People with schizophrenia are just people who are tormented by hallucinations that are caused by a chemical imbalance.
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Contact your county's department of social services.  They will get you seen by mental health services if you are low income.
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I don't know about percentages but I do know there is a psychiatric condition called sociopath and like any condition there are degrees of severity.  Sociopaths are evil.  Our jails are filled with sociopaths.
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Please read the following by clicking on the link below....\nhttp://www.mental-health-matters.com/articles/article.php?artID=288
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I am so sorry that you had to go through that. Please don't blame yourself. A lot of the older generation use the word "afflicted" to indicate mental illness, so I'm guessing that would be the problem. Good luck to you Sweetie!
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Education is a component of socioeconomic status (SES), which in turn is a large predictor of health behavior choices.  \n\nSome models posit that the stress associated with low SES leads to behaviors to reduce that stress: namely, smoking, drinking, and overeating.  Thus, the poor are doubly cursed: they have few resources, and they engage in behaviors that lead to poorer health.\n\nOther observers believe that low SES has a direct impact on health (the so-called 'relative deprivation' theory).  \n\nMost health researchers believe that smoking cessation promotion, while worthwhile, is not likely to improve the health of the less well educated.  This is an aspect of the 'fundamental cause' theory that suggests that the poor will always be less healthy than the affluent, because the affluent will always be better able to translate resources into health.
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In 1890 Chocolate King Hershey built the utopian city Hershey in Illinois to prove that very thing. I am sure there was a difference in mental illness rates back then. Remember cultural rates reported in America show that whites have twice as much mental illness as non-whites today. So cultures can make a difference. Would it be cost effective to give patients sex and money and no pills. I am going to say yes but who will say OK.
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mentally ill patients - hmm if they are trainable i guess they might be better than totally dependent don't you think.\nas long as this is not a progressive disease that caused the disability i guess this will turn out to be more managable