A medical study : patients with depression may commit violent crimes than others 3 times
Experts in the field of psychiatry, said that depressed patients are likely to provide the commission of violent crimes and robbery offenses of sexual assault and abuse of others by 3 times more likely than non-infected.
However, the scientists confirmed in a study based on the corresponding cases of 47 thousand people that for the most part of cases of depression should not stigmatize patients either as criminals or they tend to violence
He said Sina Fadel, who oversaw the study of psychiatry at the University of Oxford, Department: «of the most important results is that the vast majority of depressed patients is convicted of violent crimes and rates .. Without those special schizophrenia disease and manic-depressive psychosis It is also much less than alcoholism or drug »
Depression is one of the most prevalent cases of mental illness and suffers from 350 million people in the world. Treatment usually involves either drugs, either through psychiatry or both
Said Andrea Hypriana a researcher and consultant in clinical psychiatry at Oxford did not participate in this study directly, the results showed how important it is to talk directly to patients about how depression can be violent and violent behavior ideas to be part of their illness
He told reporters: «It is satisfaction in patients talk about their suffering from it. They are comfortable when they know that there is a way out and that the disease is treatable. »
He said Fadel team who published his findings in the journal «The Lancet» Psychiatry, that «the medical records and criminal antecedents to the number of 47 158 people in Sweden who are diagnosed with depression and compared the cases with 898 454 people who do not suffer from it, taking into account age and gender factors
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