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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While mental illness isn’t the cause of most violence in the US, it is true that serious mental illness often presents in college age kids.  It often doesn’t get detected early because kids are away from home[/quote]

Schizophrenia tends to show up earlier in males than females. For males, it's typically between ages 18 and 25 and for females, between ages 25 and 35.

Although schizophrenia can occur at any age, the average age of onset tends to be in the late teens to the early 20s for men (college age).

Most people are diagnosed with bipolar disorder in adolescence or adulthood, but the symptoms can appear earlier in childhood. Bipolar disorder is often episodic, but it usually lasts a lifetime.

Bipolar disorder usually develops inadolescence or early adulthood — the mean age of onset is 18, and between 15 and 19 is the most common period of onset. But the disorder’s first signs are very often overlooked or mischaracterized. At the outset, bipolar symptoms are commonly mistaken forADHD, depression, anxiety, borderline personality disorder and, in its more severe manifestations, asschizophrenia.

That’s because the first symptoms of this disorder are unusually varied. Only over time does the pattern of alternating high and low moods become clear, meaning that in many cases people withbipolar disorder are left waiting months, or even years, for an accurate diagnosis.

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