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enirgin t1_j7qsr71 wrote

There is also evidence that diagnosis with a mental disorder is biased: those in poverty and minorities are diagnosed at higher rates than others with similar symptoms.

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Smart-Rip-3733 t1_j7qs75h wrote

I'm trying not to read this as an insinuation that all poor people are on drugs so I will be discussing bipolar, which I have. Sometimes bipolar people get their first mania b/c they went to the Dr to get help and were prescribed anti depressants. Bipolar mania can also be caused by stimulants (RX and meth). Bipolar psychosis can be caused by a bad marijuana strain. The bipolar itself would still be "organic" in any case.

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HToTD t1_j7qooub wrote

That's with a diagnosis too. So in reality the difference is probably even larger.

They mention substance abuse; I imagine that along with general healthfulness, nutrition, sleep, stress etc are major factors.

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Bama_Peach t1_j7qoh3s wrote

I think it's important to note that the study specifically mentions diagnosis of a mental disorder. This is of course pure speculation on my part but I'm of the belief that those from a poorer background who are diagnosed with a mental disorder later in life probably had the disorder earlier in life but due to lack of resources were unable to seek help to obtain a diagnosis when they were younger.

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Wagamaga OP t1_j7qnb64 wrote

People from the poorest backgrounds are far more likely to develop a mental disorder later in life than those from wealthier beginnings, suggests a study published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.

In addition, more than half of people with a low educational attainment at age 30 will have a diagnosis of a mental disorder 22 years later, according to the study of people in Finland.

Previous studies have found a link between socioeconomic position and incidence of mental disorders, but the importance of different measures of socioeconomic position has seldom been compared.

A team of researchers from Finland analyzed official national data on more than 1.2 million of the population born between 1966 and 1986 who were living in Finland when they turned 30.

They set out to investigate the association between socioeconomic position at the age of 30 and the subsequent risk of the most common major mental disorders - substance misuse, schizophrenia, mood, and anxiety disorders.

They used three register-based measures for socioeconomic position, namely, educational attainment, employment status, and personal total income while also taking into account shared family characteristics that have an impact.

The study's population was followed between 1996 and 2017 and just over a quarter (26.1%) of them (331,657) were diagnosed with a mental disorder during the study's follow-up period.

The researchers' analysis showed that lower socioeconomic position at age 30 was consistently associated with a higher risk of being later diagnosed with a mental disorder, even after taking into account shared family characteristics and prior history of a mental disorder.

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230208/People-from-the-poorest-backgroundsmore-likely-to-develop-mental-disorder-later-in-life.aspx

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Malalang t1_j7qko0q wrote

Toxins, in general, can be filtered out by healthy organs. Overwhelming amounts of toxins obviously overwhelm the natural systems and cause tissue breakdown.

The thing about imbalances in the microbiome is that toxins produced by bad bacteria on a constant basis inside the body become overwhelming.

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Potential_Limit_9123 t1_j7qknz0 wrote

Don't get too excited. There are many problems with those, including if you test from 2 different locations you get 2 results; test from same location but send to 2 companies, you get 2 results; the actual biome may not be the same as your results.

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