Owning a Cat Could Double Your Schizophrenia Risk, Research Suggests

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“After adjusting for covariates, we found that individuals exposed to cats had approximately twice the odds of developing schizophrenia,” the team explained.

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Owning a dog would double my boredom.

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I never heard of that before. I grew up with cats and I let my daughter have backyard cats. I think this might be an example of not believing everything you read online.

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My little dog farts in your general direction. :dog2: :wind_face: :man: :camera:

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Dogs also have lousy aim.

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This is probably just a myth but meh.

I had a cat from my teens til my early thirties, maybe it played a role, maybe it didn’t.

I loved that cat more than anything in the world.

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do cats produce smell? that can inhibit schizophrenics phycosis? maybe cats produce to much pollen.

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you know… like a human. a human can produce stress smell. so when the cat sense and smell the human smell the cat starts acting diffrent causing cat hormones and pheromones.

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I’m waiting for this to go somewhere that makes sense.

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It’s true to say humans excrete certain chemicals when stressed. These chemicals have an effect on other humans/animals.

For example if someone has had 3 or 4 days of poor sleep the stress chemicals excreted go into the bedsheets and in turn potentiate the stress state.

Washing sheets often leads to a better sleep as you have cleaned away the stress chemicals. This isn’t an old wives tale

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Not to pile on Noop_12 but I’ve noticed that even in other contexts when someone uses the word pheromone’s things start to get weird.

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dont wory people we all have schizophrenia so our schizophrenia risk is infinite lol cats for everybody and i wish you luck on the road to remission

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I’m allergic to dog pollen. That’s the real issue here.

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Proof that cats are evil. And the myth of the crazy cat lady has been proven :joy:

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or is it having schizophrenia doubles your risk of having cats?

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Some BS! Is it causation or correlation? Was study replicated?

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I shall resume my life as the crazy cat lady

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i just think having trained cats can help schizophrenics cope in life

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