Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness (2013)

Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by PaulHoule on Thursday January 07, 2016 @03:45PM (#10860616)

Mental illness is a complex entity. Beware of any simple "definition of insanity"

I recently discovered I have a mutation which makes my verbal intelligence too high to measure but has negative effects in other areas. Other people have similar variations.

Some kinds of mental illness such as schizophrenia seem very much to be a biological phenomenon, but stress and particularly the way stress is structured has a definite negative effect on the origin. You can become stronger and more capable in many areas by applying stress in the right way (athletic and military training, for instance), but stress without time to recover has negative effects on body and mind and certainly surplus coercion leads to surplus stress.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by joe_the_user on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:01PM (#10862152)

Hmm,

It seems contradictory to first note problems in defining insanity and then make a claim of vast "verbal intelligence", a quality a bit further out on the fringes of psychology definition.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by cryoshon on Thursday January 07, 2016 @04:08PM (#10860771)

Are you talking about the Met-158 mutation? If not, which?

I agree that the real culprit is stress-- biological differences to processing and coping with stress are likely the actual mechanism at play rather than generalized "coercion" like the article suggests without providing evidence. Our society is intensely stressful, and provides no real permanent reductions in stress level.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by PaulHoule on Thursday January 07, 2016 @04:28PM (#10860930)

I don't have Met-158 thank god I am not like that crazy killer family from the Netherlands.

I am hetero at SNP rs1800497.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by jspiral on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:43PM (#10862328)

Is what you are talking about mentioned in any way here? http://www.snpedia.com/index.php/Rs1800497

I'm not seeing it. Curious to find a reference with more info.

When you say hetero, I would guess you mean (C;T) which doesn't look that rare, i'm guessing i'm misunderstanding.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by wickedgain on Thursday January 07, 2016 @04:32PM (#10860950)

How did you find out?

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by PaulHoule on Thursday January 07, 2016 @05:33PM (#10861328)

23andme. It's funny because I always thought I was some kind of X-Man.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by malft on Friday January 08, 2016 @01:52AM (#10863367)

Your mental superpowers are caused by a rare mutation shared with 40% of all people?

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by danieltillett on Friday January 08, 2016 @02:04AM (#10863406)

Yep. This must be why 40% of the population has a “verbal” intelligence that can’t be measured.

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Re:Societies with Little Coercion Have Little Mental Illness... by nommm-nommm on Friday January 08, 2016 @09:26AM (#10865021)

What is "verbal intelligence" and how is it measured? Why can't yours be measured?

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