Covid exposing anomalies in our current understanding of psychiatric Disorders

​New research shows people with psychiatric disorders more at risk for severe COVID-19

----Aug. 2021

Channel 6 News --- Minnesota

 As the county and state monitor the pandemic, scientists and medical researchers continue to learn more about COVID-19. Mayo Clinic released a new study that says younger people with psychiatric disorders are at a higher risk for severe disease or even death from the virus. . . .

This research was a partnership between Mayo Clinic, Olmsted Medical Center, Olmsted County Public Health, and Zumbro Valley Health Center. 

"Things like effective disorders, severe psychiatric conditions, severe developmental disorders - we would never really expect that those would put people at an especially high risk of a more severe outcome," Sauver said (Sauver is Jennifer St. Sauver, professor of Epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic) 

"But according to this new research they do."

Val's Take:   Under current clinical mental health paradigms --- it would be a surprise that people with psychiatric conditions would be more at risk of COVID.

BUT under the NEW PARADIGMS emerging from the RESEARCH --- IT IS NOT SURPRISING that people with psychiatric disorders would be more at risk of COVID.

WHY IS THAT?

The NEW RESEARCH of the last 10 years is revealing that psychiatric disorders (and for that matter developmental disorders) are intimately tied to the IMMUNE SYSTEM.

Thomas Kuhn, author of "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" (1962)

​ ​"Psychiatric conditions and cancer predicted a threefold greater risk of severe outcomes from COVID-19 among younger people who tested positive for the illness, according to a recent study by the Rochester Epidemiology Project of Mayo Clinic."

On Page 14 of the study --- "PERSONALITY DISORDERS" are included in the list of   disorders that make COVID worse.

Hmmm . . .

​Human Beings and Human Societies --- often when we don't have good understandings of illness or behavior:

• the person is CURSED BY GOD
• the person is POSSESSED BY A DEMON, and
• In Modern Times
  • ​Eugenics, or
  • ​a BLIND FAITH in FREE WILL and NEUROPLASTICITY

A lot of the information collected on "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" is of VALUE --- it is just that it is SO PARTIAL.

Understanding "Anti-Social Personality Disorder" as some researchers in the US,  Finland and Japan are ---- as a DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER associated with "ADHD" and DEVELOPMENTAL NEURO-INFLAMMATION starts painting a DIFFERENT PICTURE even if we're not rejecting observed associations with the disorder.