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Bullying and subsequent psychosis

Posted by SLS on May 9, 2009, at 6:03:56

"Children who are bullied are more likely to develop psychotic symptoms in early adolescence and there is a dose effect, with repeated bullying associated with greater risk."

"In the first prospective study to examine the relationship between childhood bullying and psychotic symptoms in early adolescence, investigators at the University of Warwick, in Coventry, the United Kingdom, found the risk for psychotic symptoms nearly doubled among children who were victims of bullying at age 8 or 10 years, independent of other psychiatric illness, family adversity, or the child's IQ, and increased nearly 4-fold when victimization was chronic or severe."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/702560?src=mpnews&spon=12&uac=41170BN

I was bullied beginning at age 10. I believe this acted synergistically with other psychosocial stresses to precipitate bipolar disorder by age 17. Of course, I had the biological vulnerability for this to occur. Howver, even were there no such vulnerability, I know that the bullying led to some pretty severe psychological damage.


- Scott

 

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