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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

Autism Spectrum 53,000 5 1.4 Regarding mental disorders, pharmaceutical treatments appear better if genetic causes are assumed. This means that even if 270 risk genes for schizophrenia have now been found, they can only explain a small proportion of the symptoms. Malfunction Number of persons (approx.) ADHD 55,000 12 5.5

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Human

Mad in America

Everything that I had been told was part of an elaborate, profiteering form of mass human control by psychiatrists, pharmaceutical companies, and governments. In my desperation and loneliness, I had been the perfect psychiatric victim.