i thought this was pretty darn interesting
http://www.mcmanweb.com/darwinian_challenge.html
any thoughts?
http://www.mcmanweb.com/darwinian_challenge.html
any thoughts?
I think it would depend on the degree of the disorders. It's already been found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are both genetic. Other things can act as catalysts for latent psychological disorders as well(Read: LSD and schizophrenia). I thought they discovered that schizophrenia was due to higher dopamine levels in the brain?Anxiety is a fairly universal trait in humans and anyone who knows about the stress responses in the human body can understand the deep biological origins of them. Bipolarism and schizophrenia, on the other hand, are not 100% genetic, so it isn't clear to what degree they could be influenced by evolution.
It's already been found that schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are both genetic.
I never said the cause was simply genetics but it's relatively obvious that it plays a role.Incorrect. It's been found that there is a correlation between a person's genetics (their family) and whether or not they develop these mental illnesses. Correlation is not cause.
I never said the cause was simply genetics but it's relatively obvious that it plays a role.
Read:They do but as I originally said, they are not 100% genetic, and therefore, the degree to which evolution has played a role is indeterminable. These conditions are not comparable to anxiety which is virtually universal among humans.
To what degree does the genetics of a person effect the possibility of them having psychological disorders? And is it nurture or the way they handle the condition that varies the degrees of psychosis or(this is a technical term) mindfuck?
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They're both pretty genetic. A recent study in Sweden showed that bipolar (at least bipolar type I or manic-depression) and schizophrenia come from the same genes, which I found interesting, since both "illnesses" gallop through my family. For example, my grandmother and uncle had schizophrenia, while my mother had bipolar type I and a "normie" sister. I have manic-depression while my son has schizophrenia. He has a "normie" brother. They're genetic enough that scientists can predict with some accuracy the chances of passing on one or both of these "illnesses" to offspring. Of all the people I know with either bipolar or schizophrenia, ALL have someone else in the family with one or the other of the conditions, whether it be a grandparent, uncle, first cousin, etc. Now of course this isn't a scientific study; I'm just saying I've never known or even heard of anyone who is the only person in the family with mental illness. That doesn't mean there aren't any; I just don't know of any and I've studied the genetics of both "illnesses" pretty extensively.
All that aside, I found the article interesting and I loved the video in bi-chronicity because it so accurately depicts my perceptions during mood episodes. John McManamy, the guy in the video and author of the article, once sent out 100 MBTI tests to people with bipolar who subscribe to his newsletter. What he found was interesting: 14% came back as INFJs and 17% were INTPs; the only Es represented were ENFJs and I can't remember the percentage. In other words, some fairly rare types were way overrepresented, at least in this small, albeit unscientific study.
Most of this is speculative and anecdotal, but I still find it fascinating.
Maybe those types are just more likely to subscribe to that newsletter.
Incorrect. It's been found that there is a correlation between a person's genetics (their family) and whether or not they develop these mental illnesses. Correlation is not cause.
For example, studies have found that there is a much higher probability within identical twins to both be schizophrenic if one of them is, however it is not the case 100% of the time. That indicates that genetics could very well play a factor, but it does not indicate that the condition is genetic itself.