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From the Guardians science pages... (posted by Ken) Psychotic experiences are much more common than used to be believed. Until the 1990s, if you had asked a mental health expert what proportion of the population had paranoid thoughts, for example, they would have answered around 1% – that is, the 1% of the population diagnosed with psychosis. But we now know that around a quarter of people experience regular paranoid thoughts. Just like anxiety and depression, psychotic symptoms exist on a spectrum: many people experience them occasionally and without causing distress; a few people are affected regularly and severely. theguardian/science/blog/2014/nov/27/delusions-hallucinations-psychosis-schizophrenia
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:03:21 +0000

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