Bah…they tie everything to schizophrenia. Next article they put out will be that walking your dog too much is a trigger for schizophrenia.
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Can anyone count the endless number of casual factors that have been written about here /their and are believed to increase the risk of developing the SZ ?
(including polluted air,murky water and 007 ! )
Is to conceivable that a single phenomenon needs a combination of all these causal factors in order to occur ?
The sz in itself as a condition cannot be understood from such a factors ,because is not one of these casual factor at all !
For example;
Man dies of thirst,but water is not the life itself
A person dies from lack of oxygen,but it is not the life itself
People die of hunger,but food is not the life in itself
The causal factors of death and life do not mean the life in itself by which we perceive ourselves within our bodies
Life in itself is not the numerical sum of the life’s causes that increase the chance of our survival ,and the sz is like that
Hmmmmm…
Here’s a chart from the Interwebz:
Look at the Aussies though. Their air can’t be that bad, right?
I would wager that places like Australia (high incidences) diagnose more frequently than somewhere like, I don’t know… Colombia, for example-- even though they may have similar rates of SZ and concentrated air pollution levels.
We also have to take into account cultural beliefs vs. scientific evidence, scope of psychiatric expertise and care, and how developed a nation is, for starters.
It’s amazing how much a country’s sociological trajectory plays a part in characterizing and diagnosing a mental illness.
Cobblers. Dont believe a word of it. Probably written by some millenial under-grad looking for his papers to be taken seriously.
So this is what they come up with. Please spend more time researching schizophrenia before blaming it on pollution.
I do believe air pollution causes illness though, just not schizophrenia.
I believe that air pollution can increase the likelihood of mental disorders, because it’s generally bad for the body, and brain is a big part of the body. Pollution → inflammation → slightly impaired brain function. This slight impairment pushes some people over the brink, who would overwise have stayed just inside the “normal” bracket.
That’s what I’ve thought too but it isnt a major cause of it
looool i think it could be a lot of different things for different people, all boiled down to either physiological stressors and psychological stressors (and ofcourse sz has a genetic background).
This would fall, i supposed, into the category of a physiological stressor along with : bad nutrition, cold weather in the womb, drug use, and a million other things. I think were really susceptible during pregnancy which is part of the problem. maybe it triggers that gene to express and be manifested or whatever (im no scientist 
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Ignorance of the essential nature of sz condition gave a golden opportunity to the makers of casual relationships to invent delusional risks for any selected casual factor upon request to developing sz ,on the ground that the all-do not know what sz is at all !
Lately I’ve been very cautious about scientific studies because of p-value hacking.
Here’s a video from Ted Ed to explain
