A new article set to appear in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry finds that clinical high risk for psychosis (CHR) is linked to childhood trauma in Brazil, China, and Turkey.
The current work, led by Ana Caroline Lopes-Rocha from the University of São Paulo, additionally finds cultural differences in the relationship between CHR and childhood trauma. Chinese CHR participants reported higher levels of emotional neglect, physical neglect, and physical abuse, while those from Brazil reported higher levels of physical neglect.
This article is currently in pre-proof, meaning it has not yet been through peer review. The authors write:
“Our cross-cultural study brought important findings about differences in childhood trauma in 253 CHR individuals from three different low- and middle-income countries. CHR subjects as a whole had significantly higher levels of childhood trauma when compared to controls. Addressing the specific types of childhood trauma in CHR subjects, sexual abuse was related to subject’s gender and marital status. Neglect (physical and emotional) was significantly different between countries. Physical abuse was different between countries and was related to lower level of education.”
The authors compared 253 CHR participants with 281 controls and found higher trauma scores in the CHR group across most categories. This study highlights social adversity as an essential part of the story in the development of symptoms associated with psychosis, and it does so in three countries that are often underrepresented in early psychosis research.
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Gee, no shit, psychosis is tied to childhood trauma in ALL countries but I guess it doesn’t matter what real people’s decades of lived experience has demonstrated, all that matters is that our infallible saviours the infinitely wise and good psychiatrists have only just started to realize this.
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Genuinely, is this a psych journal? I’ve been reading here for a bit now and I thought this site was against psychiatry, but like at least half of the articles here come from psychiatry journals.
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Steve McCrea, about an hour ago, I sent you an email. Now I seem to be able to use my Someone Else pseudonym on MiA again.
But I’m still dealing with a computer/phone/email, Apple ID stealing, psychologist who’s using my emails. So please consider contacting me, as need be.
There is a systemic, paternalistic problem with all the DSM’s. Since no psych professional – to this day – can bill to help child abuse survivors. Of which I am not, but my children are.
And, as mentioned many times previously. The psychosis treatments – the antipsychotics / neuroleptics – can create psychosis, via anticholinergic toxidrome, as well as the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, via neuroleptic induced deficit syndrome.
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I looked at the research and examined it. What caught my attention in the research is that the “family” is shown as the sole culprit in childhood trauma. Family alone is not the cause of ‘childhood trauma’. However, environmental, social, and chemical environments also influence it. Like psychiatric drugs, for example.
The “psychiatric drug treatments” given to children can also make this “permanent.” The study does not specify whether the children were given psychiatric drugs. Psychiatric drug treatments… transform the “traumas” experienced by children… into “permanent chemical traumas.” All of this is ignored and the “family” is shown as the sole culprit.
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I sent the story about my brother to MIA and told them it was urgent. They were interested, but they said it was difficult because the story was long and had translation errors. They said, “If you publish it on your own blog, we can look at it here and compile it together on MIA,” etc.
Thanks to MIA. I’ll be publishing this story on my own blog. I’m preparing it in more detail now. You can also learn how absurd the above research is by reading this story.
By the way… we managed to get my brother out of the care (/nursing) homes, which had become death camps. It is very difficult to say anything good about her health condition. He’s receiving treatment and staying with us. Even his family doctor was surprised by this situation. “How did it get to this point?” she says. “What will happen? It’s because of the irresponsibility of care (/nursing) homes,” we said, etc.
I’m now trying to explain the detailed story behind this and why mainstream psychiatry is such a terrible “death industry.” Once the article story is finished I will probably publish it at this address.
https://researches-reviews.blogspot.com/
This is my blog. This blog is in Turkish only. This blog contains numerous studies and reflections on the deadly consequences of mainstream psychiatry and psychiatric drugs.
You can access all of the research here.
https://researches-reviews.blogspot.com/2024/09/psikiyatri-bir-olum-endustrisidir.html
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I translate and publish foreign research into my own language. This is because browser translations are full of errors. People don’t read anyway. When they read, they cannot understand anything due to translation errors. Therefore, I try to prepare proper translations and publish them. As best I can…
I hope these blogs… in keeping with MIA’s theme of “rethinking psychiatry”… will pave the way for the millions of individuals around the world who are victims of psychiatry.
In this is my personal blog bearing my name.
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Best regards. With best wishes. E.Y. 🙂 Researcher blog writer (Blogger)…
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School was a massive traumatic experience for me as a kid. Church was somewhat traumatic as well. And my siblings played a role in traumatizing me as well. It’s definitely not just our parents.
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And it’s not just our personal families. As one who scared a private school into closing its doors forever on 6.6.o6, since that school had a pedoph-le on its school board. It is a large societal problem.
The psych industries need to get out of the, by DSM design, systemic, but illegal, child abuse covering up business.
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It’s definitely not just “mom, dad, and siblings.” The environment also plays a role. In fact, the family is included in the environment.
“In fact, every child has experienced some form of “trauma” from both their family and their environment.” One thing I’ve noticed is that “psychiatrists, psychologists, and doctors” exacerbate this trauma. In States (governments) included. With the full meaning of the word… “While trying to do good those poke out one’s eye.”
Almost all of them… do not seem to have sufficient knowledge and experience regarding “childhood trauma and its resolution.” When we look at the research… there seems to be a “one-sided approach.” All the blame is placed on the family.
Yet… environmental factors and the contributions of psychiatrists, psychologists, doctors, and governments are ignored. This seems like a good way to conceal the harms inflicted by mainstream psychiatry and biopsychiatric treatments. Psychiatry… does this all the time.
I’ve also addressed this issue of “trauma” in my writings. I’ve discussed how physical trauma can turn into permanent chemical trauma; “psychiatric drugs, (street) drugs, and other chemical-containing foods and drinks, etc.” However, I learned that the cause of this was – mostly – “psychiatric drugs and psychiatrists.”
An article by Peter Breggin stated that studies comparing illicit drugs and psychiatric drugs had found that “illegal street drugs had no effect on the harm suffered by people harmed by psychiatric drugs.” Even this… clearly showed us how dangerous psychiatric drugs are.
Thanks for the reply, Steve McCrea. Best regards, E.Y. 🙂
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