{"id":181305,"date":"2025-10-01T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:44:10","slug":"where-you-live-may-affect-your-mental-illness-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/181305\/","title":{"rendered":"Where you live may affect your mental illness risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Share this <br \/>Article<\/p>\n<p>You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license.<\/p>\n<p>Living in a resource-deprived area may increase your risk of certain psychiatric conditions, according to a recent study.<\/p>\n<p>Psychotic disorders such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/paranoia-vision-3262242\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">schizophrenia<\/a> can be debilitating, interfering with a person\u2019s mental, physical, and social health. The new study suggests a person\u2019s risk for developing these conditions could be shaped by their environment.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that, in areas with lower incomes, poor quality housing, and high crime, rates of psychotic disorders were 79% higher than in wealthier areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlack Americans are about 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the United States, and recent research has been pointing to structural causes,\u201d says Sydney James, lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarginalized communities are more likely to live in deprived areas, so I wanted to see if that explained the higher rates of psychosis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meta-analysis included multiple countries, examining the environments people lived in and the rates of psychotic disorders in those areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe studies used a range of methods, but the results were very consistent: More inequality can give rise to a higher incidence rate of psychosis,\u201d says James.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that no condition or symptom, such as delusions or hallucinations, was more common than the other.<\/p>\n<p>However, the rates for psychotic disorders in general were higher in resource-deprived areas where unemployment was high, education was low, and housing and services were hard to come by.<\/p>\n<p>Living in poorer neighborhoods may increase one\u2019s risk for psychosis, but that doesn\u2019t mean wealthier individuals can\u2019t also develop it. Psychotic disorders often affect a person\u2019s ability to work and form relationships, impacting where they can live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvironmental deprivation can be both a cause and a consequence of psychotic disorders,\u201d says Gregory Strauss, a professor in the UGA Department of Psychology and senior author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if someone was born into a more affluent neighborhood, if they develop schizophrenia, they can end up in a living in more impoverished environment because of the effects of the illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Digital therapy could help guide someone with a psychotic disorder through therapeutic techniques \u201cin the environment where it might matter most,\u201d Strauss says.<\/p>\n<p>Many people with psychotic disorders also struggle with the belief that their situation will never change due to their environment. This can become a constant cycle as they believe their situation will never improve and lose motivation to try to change it.<\/p>\n<p>Therapy techniques personalized to someone\u2019s situation could help break this cycle and improve their quality of life, the researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>The study appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00127-025-02980-7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uga.edu\/lack-of-resources-higher-psychosis-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">University of Georgia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. 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