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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I agree with most of this. I have a feeling she is and has always been intellectually disabled, but somewhat of a performing savant, which happens, so her extreme mental illness coupled with ID is a scary and devastating combo. Complete speculation. It also would paint her family in a terrible light for taking advantage of her talents while exploiting, essentially, a small child in mind and body (I think she’s far from a teen, mentally).  [/quote]

Just want to add that the media and many, many members of her team also exploited her for profit.

Lots of people on this thread have correlated her mental illness with her pregnancy, but I imagine public scrutiny and humiliation she endured played a bigger role. She had no support system. [/quote]

She had her kids at a fairly young age, around 23/24 IIRC. That’s definitely within the common age range of onset schizophrenia. [b]It’s possible her illness would have manifested even if she never had kids or been in the industry. [/b]She’d just be living with her parents or homeless instead.[/quote]
 Bi-polar/schizophrenia can be caused having children or suffering abuse? I thought they are just inherent chemical imbalances that take time to develop? [/quote]

DP (who just posted, but I think these issues are important to clarify) - both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia are highly heritable, i.e., there’s a strong genetic component.  In women, both tend to emerge in the early to mid-20s (vs. late teens for men).  There are environmental contributors to both, such as exposure to childhood trauma, among others, but genes do play a large role.

The hormonal shifts associated with pregnancy/postpartum can impact the presentation of these illnesses, though that’s relatively understudied.  Overall, estrogen tends to be protective against psychosis, hence schizophrenia being more common among men than women.

If she had schizophrenia/schizoaffective she’d likely appear far weirder than she does.  I don’t say that out of criticism; there’s a bizarreness to these diagnoses that she doesn’t have.  She also doesn’t seem thought disordered.[/quote]
If there are no environmental contributors are the genetic issues less likely to appear? [/quote]

Generally, yes, though it depends on the disorder and the specific genes.  The best way to think about it is genes and environment interacting to yield a certain phenotype.  There’s a lot we don’t, in part because mental illness research is grossly underfunded.[/quote]

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