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Next, let’s look at an article on childhood trauma and schizotypal personality disorder basically asking the question, does trauma make schizotypal personality disorder more likely to occur or more severe when it does occur? I thought, “Is there a mental illness that isn’t made worse by traumatic childhood?” It’s almost axiomatic, and we see it so often. So, do we need a study to prove this? Well, hardly, but, you know, we get enough potential traumatization vicariously just seeing patients. I even hesitated to dive in to this article and bring it to you. On the other hand, I kind of trust Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica to come up with interesting material. So, let’s have a closer look.
First off, what percentage of healthy controls would you expect to endorse trauma items? In this study, it was 50%. Let’s pause and look at how this was measured. They used something called
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