JEWISH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ARE A BIT OVERSTATED BUT BIASED A BIT TO THE FEMALE

JEWISH MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ARE A BIT OVERSTATED BUT BIASED A BIT TO THE FEMALE NEUROSIS SPECTRUM
(Kind of interesting)

I can explain this in detail but I’m already complaining about every race on the planet today so I’d prefer to avoid it. So I’ll just give you an overview.

Now, first, we should start with sex differences in mental illness and antisocial behavior. Women manifest mental instability on an astounding scale, with 30-40% of american women on some sort of mood stabilizer. Men however manifest these behaviors very differently. Usually exteranlizing them as aggression, alcohol, crime, disagreeablness, or laziness.

We should expect to see certain expressed behaviors in the ashkenazim, and the same for the arabized population, and we do see them. (A jewish friend’s daughter committed suicide years ago ago because the schizophrenia progressed rapidly and dangerously. It was terribly painful for all.)

However, what we should observe and do observe is the female end of the spectrum with neuroticisms rather than the male version (alcohol and drug abuse)

And we do: neurosis, manic depression (bipolar disorder), dysthymia, (minor depression, major depression, simple phobia and schizophrenia. Note these are integrative disorders not compartmentalized disorders).

However other mental illnesses are within the same ranges as the rest of the european population: panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, alcohol, and drug abuse. Note these are compartmentalization disorders not integrative disorders.

In other words these suggest a sex difference in cognitive organization – which is what we should expect to see.

So in other words, if men manifest these behaviors (“if you slice open an actor you’ll find an actress”) they’re more visible. And if a woman, and you’re more attention seeking and aggressive, they’re more visible.

So I don’t think we’re seeing as much mental illness as more expression of female behavior in a group that is cognitively biased for female behavior, both in origin, genetic integration with european wome, and selection for skill sets favoring female cognition.

In other words, Ashkenazi men manifest female bias in psychological behaviors, and I think we just notice it more because it’s different from our expectations. I’m not sure with ashenazi women. There isn’t any data. My sample is pretty large but IMO the distribution is more stable than the male. But we need science on this issue. I can’t tell if I’m engaging in fitting observations to the theory.

At least that’s my charitable understanding of the matter. it’s also the opinion of most historians who have thought about the issue.

Cheers

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