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Why Do So Many Mental Illnesses Overlap? (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

A schizophrenic person in one culture may be a cleric in another.

yeah there are some zany established differences in the manifestation of schizophrenia between cultures and how it's treated—religious visions, interestingly, tend to be a rather Christian manifestation of schizophrenia and apparently are not so common even in other Abrahamic-dominated countries