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"extremely severe psychosocial stressors"
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You know this isn't about you, right? That's about your life, past and present.
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There is compelling epidemiological evidence that psychosocial stress is implicated in the development of psychotic symptoms. Two studies from the British National Psychiatric Morbidity Survey reported that adverse life events during the preceding 6 months were associated with psychotic experiences in a sample of the general population, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.1,2 Furthermore, a lifetime experience of upsetting life events was associated with increased levels of psychotic symptoms in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia,3 although this was not confirmed in a second study in individuals at elevated risk for schizophrenia.4 Rather than the impact of a single recent life event, cumulative exposure to traumatic life events may increase risk of psychosis. For example, a recent study suggested that risk for psychosis increases with the number of life events experienced.5
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Psychosocial Stress and Psychosis. A Review of the Neurobiological Mechanisms and the Evidence for Gene-Stress Interaction
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