People Who Look Similar Also Share Genes And Behaviour — Despite Being Unrelated (M)
Doppelgängers share both some DNA and some behaviours, despite often coming from different countries.
Doppelgängers share both some DNA and some behaviours, despite often coming from different countries.
The study compared 18 different mental health problems and substance use disorders.
The study compared 18 different mental health problems and substance use disorders.
Personality disorders and schizophrenia are the two most disabling mental health conditions, research finds.
The most disabling condition, schizophrenia, is one of the most serious types of mental illness.
It can cause delusions, hallucinations, confused thinking and dramatic changes in behaviour.
People diagnosed with schizophrenia lost 73 percent of their healthy lives per year to the disease, on average.
The figure is so high because people with schizophrenia often have other problems at the same time, such as a substance use disorders.
After schizophrenia, personality disorders are the next most disabling condition.
Personality disorders affect around one- in-six people in the U.S..
People with a personality disorder behave, think and feel very differently from the average person.
There are three types of personality disorder:
The conclusions come from a study that examined the relative impact of different mental health conditions on people’s lives.
Professor John McGrath, study co-author, said:
“Traditionally the impact of mental disorders has been presented for an entire nation, but in this study, we focussed on people with different types of mental and substance use disorders at an individual level.
We found that schizophrenia and personality disorders were the most disabling mental conditions and showed how disorders like autism, anxiety disorders and schizophrenia contribute to disability at different ages.
Our new measure known as the Health Loss Proportion (HeLP) allows us to measure the average disability for different disorders at the individual level, which means that individuals who experience more inherent disability, and more comorbid conditions, will have a higher HeLP weighting, and therefore a higher measure of disability.”
The study included data from almost 7 million people in Denmark.
It looked at 18 different mental health problems and substance use disorders.
Professor McGrath said:
“People with mental disorders lead valued and productive lives, despite a lack of social and economic support for their unmet needs.”
The study was published in the journal The Lancet Psychiatry (Weye et al., 2021).
What your profile picture says about your personality.
Dramatic people love to gossip, stir up trouble and they constantly think they are victims.
Dramatic people love to gossip, stir up trouble and they constantly think they are victims.
People who enjoy getting others riled up and who can’t hold their opinion back have a high need for drama, research finds.
Other aspects of a ‘need for drama’ include saying things just to see how others react and feeling like a victim all the time.
The conclusions come from a study which validates a 12-point scale to measure need for drama.
People who score high on the ‘need for drama’ scale also typically have high but non-clinical levels of psychopathy and narcissism.
The typical life of dramatic individuals is described by the study’s authors:
“People with drama-prone personalities generally live chaotic lives and inflict contrived crises on family, friends, and co-workers.
In our interpersonal relationships, we would likely identify “dramatic” individuals with their histories of failed relationships and their conflicts with friends and family.
Often this interpersonal drama becomes public on social networking sites.
In the workplace, dramatic individuals are likely to engage in gossip to influence others, create conflicts among co-workers and management, and feel that they are the victims of others’ gossip and conflicts.”
The study found that three factors make up the need for drama:
- Interpersonal manipulation: “characterized by a person’s willingness to influence other people to behave in a manner serving of the manipulator’s goals.”
- Persistent perceived victimhood: “the propensity to constantly perceive oneself as a victim of everyday life circumstances that many people would dismiss as benign.”
- Impulsive outspokenness: “characterized by a person’s compulsion to speak out and share opinions, even when inappropriate and without regard to social consequences.”
The more that you agree with these statements the higher your need for drama:
Agreeing with the following statement, though, is linked to lower levels of need for drama:
The study was published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences (Frankowski et al., 2016).
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