
Feb. 26, 2016When it’s time to pick a mate, people often choose others like themselves—even when it comes to mental disorders,Statreports. In a study published Tuesday inJAMA Psychiatry, people with mental illnesses were two to three times more likely than the general populace to have a partner with some kind of mental illness. In some cases, people even seemed toprefer partners with the same mental illness, potentially increasing the chances of passing on that illness to children. For example, people with schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder were seven times more likely than average to have partners with those conditions, whereas people with autism-spectrum disorders w...
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