Hey cool! I never heard of peer genetic risk as a clinical reality before. I really like your channel, it seems like a really valuable resource and I hope you get more attention soon. I clicked on this video initially because I’ve come to learn over my 34 years on earth that I almost exclusively form strong bonds with people who are mentally ill and neurodivergent (except, of all things, my romantic partners). I’ve had a few diagnoses over my lifetime and when I look back at my childhood I come to find all of my closest friends either had diagnoses back then or developed them as adults. Furthermore, as an adult now, everyone I end up forming a strong bond is also inevitably diagnosed with something, I can almost predict it at this point. If they don’t have a diagnosis when I meet them, they will almost certainly be diagnosed with bipolar disorder soon after (this has happened multiple times!) it’s my humble conclusion that I’m weird and weird people like weird people and one easy way to be weird is to live with psychiatric illness. I say this not in judgement but in good humor, and I can’t help but wonder if this is at least sometimes a larger trend of like attracting like, rather than like causing like. This is pretty simplistic of course, and mental illness is so common where I live these days that it’s probably easier to find someone with than without a diagnosis, but the fact that this leads back to childhood tells me there’s something else there.
I thought I had a video on this, but I'm not finding it. But here's a free link to my Medium article on the topic: medium.com/wise-well/do-opposites-really-attract-or-is-the-opposite-true-0907dd444268?sk=1ac750d1ccc4dcad20659c7068fa7c3b
Hey! Here's the video Dr.Kruse mentioned in his response, it's called: "Seeking Romance With ADHD: Assortative Mating?" The video is in the live section of the channel.
This is very interesting because I've gone to school in both innercities aswell as suburbs. In the innercities almost None of the kids were diagnosed with any psychiatric disorders and were not taking any medication for things other than physical illnesses. However, in the suburbs, its so common for kids to be depressed and have other psychiatric disorders. It seems like half of the kids my age are diagnosed depressed.
@@cobuck4007 that’s true, kids in suburbs definitely had parents with better jobs on avg. but also you just don’t see many outwardly abnormal people in the inner cities.
Might this be ADHD related? If people with ADHD are more likely to develop alcohol and/or substance abuse addictions, and they are more likely to hang out with each other (suggested by the "assortative mating" presentation?) then would you get these results?
In this study they re-analyzed the data trying to look at confounding effects, and didn't find that they had much of an impact. But in the real world your suggestion certainly sounds like it is having some impact.
Hey cool! I never heard of peer genetic risk as a clinical reality before. I really like your channel, it seems like a really valuable resource and I hope you get more attention soon.
I clicked on this video initially because I’ve come to learn over my 34 years on earth that I almost exclusively form strong bonds with people who are mentally ill and neurodivergent (except, of all things, my romantic partners). I’ve had a few diagnoses over my lifetime and when I look back at my childhood I come to find all of my closest friends either had diagnoses back then or developed them as adults. Furthermore, as an adult now, everyone I end up forming a strong bond is also inevitably diagnosed with something, I can almost predict it at this point. If they don’t have a diagnosis when I meet them, they will almost certainly be diagnosed with bipolar disorder soon after (this has happened multiple times!) it’s my humble conclusion that I’m weird and weird people like weird people and one easy way to be weird is to live with psychiatric illness. I say this not in judgement but in good humor, and I can’t help but wonder if this is at least sometimes a larger trend of like attracting like, rather than like causing like.
This is pretty simplistic of course, and mental illness is so common where I live these days that it’s probably easier to find someone with than without a diagnosis, but the fact that this leads back to childhood tells me there’s something else there.
I thought I had a video on this, but I'm not finding it. But here's a free link to my Medium article on the topic: medium.com/wise-well/do-opposites-really-attract-or-is-the-opposite-true-0907dd444268?sk=1ac750d1ccc4dcad20659c7068fa7c3b
Hey!
Here's the video Dr.Kruse mentioned in his response, it's called:
"Seeking Romance With ADHD: Assortative Mating?"
The video is in the live section of the channel.
@@FlynnaTH-cam thanks Max for finding that!
This is very interesting because I've gone to school in both innercities aswell as suburbs. In the innercities almost None of the kids were diagnosed with any psychiatric disorders and were not taking any medication for things other than physical illnesses. However, in the suburbs, its so common for kids to be depressed and have other psychiatric disorders. It seems like half of the kids my age are diagnosed depressed.
Yeah it needs to be the other way around
@ I think the normalization of psychiatry in the suburbs is the reason. In the inner cities people don't really believes in mental illness.
Could it be that kids in suburbs have health insurance?
@@cobuck4007 that’s true, kids in suburbs definitely had parents with better jobs on avg. but also you just don’t see many outwardly abnormal people in the inner cities.
Might this be ADHD related? If people with ADHD are more likely to develop alcohol and/or substance abuse addictions, and they are more likely to hang out with each other (suggested by the "assortative mating" presentation?) then would you get these results?
In this study they re-analyzed the data trying to look at confounding effects, and didn't find that they had much of an impact. But in the real world your suggestion certainly sounds like it is having some impact.