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Old Sep 10, 2020, 04:07 PM
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Hello it's me again,

Someone once made the distinction between psychosis and psychiatric illnesses that are also a loss of contact with reality. They said psychosis is different in that the reaction is socially unacceptable.

I started to wonder if this is true, how did it get passed from generation to generation if these people are being socially removed from the possible reproductive pathways? Of course not everyone knows they have it, but if the socially unacceptable part was the distinctive part of the illness, how are people with psychosis passing on their genes? Unless at some time in the past it was socially acceptable, and it's only in the past few decades that they diagnosed it and there hasn't been time for the gene pool to react.

I wonder, I'm really trying to ask what benefits it might have for genetic selection, e.g. possibly creativity, any thoughts?

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Old Sep 10, 2020, 07:46 PM
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Generally people pass it one before becoming ill or they are just carriers of the genes without manifesting the illness...ie it may take one copy from each parent......
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Old Sep 11, 2020, 09:13 AM
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Hi, thanks for your reply. I guess I don't really understand genetics. But have you experienced any positives from the psychosis? I know I became quite well read in very niche subjects for a while and did a lot of artwork.
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