Depression leads to the commission of violent crimes

Depression leads to the commission of violent crimes

Confirmed the experts in the field of psychiatry, who diagnosed the condition that they are living with depression are likely to provide the commission of violent crimes and robbery offenses of sexual assault and abuse on the other by three times more than non-infected

However, the scientists stressed - in a study based on the corresponding cases of 47 thousand people - mostly because of depressed patients should not be stigmatized 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 abuse"

And suffers from depression 350 million people in the world, and usually includes either therapy and drug therapy, 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 explained to reporters, "It is satisfaction in patients suffering from it to talk about what they feel comfortable when they know that there is a way out and that the disease is treatable"

He said the team Fadel - who published his findings in the journal the Lancet Psychiatric 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

In the period amounted on average to three years and found that depressed patients have a greater risk of harm related to self and others

When the research focused on other factors such as previous history in the field of violence or self-harm or mental illness or physical damage - all of which increase the Anv- found less - risk but great deal-related violent crime among depressed patients