One in 10 teens hallucinate - study

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One in 10 teens hallucinate - study

6 December 2008

http://www.skynews.com.au/health/article.aspx?id=284468

 

Almost one in 10 Australian teens say they have hallucinations, and those from broken homes are among the hardest hit.

 

Young cannabis users also dominate the 8.4 per cent of teens who say they either see or hear 'things that other people think aren't there'.

 

But the findings do not mean the same teenagers will go on to suffer a mental illness in adulthood, the Queensland-based researchers behind the study say.

 

'Clearly, most adolescents in this study who experience hallucinations will not subsequently develop a psychotic disorder,' the authors write in the international journal Schizophrenia Research.

 

But for 'a minority, a combination of genetic and environmental factors may result in these experiences persisting with increased risk of psychotic disorder later in life'.

 

The research, based on the views of more than 1,200 teens aged 13 to 17, is understood to be the first to draw a link to family structure, as those young people living in blended or sole parent families were more likely to report hallucinations.

 

'Some children adjust to parental conflict, separation and divorce and the breakdown of the family unit may be psychologically traumatic,' the authors said.

 

'Adolescents ... who had elevated depressive symptoms were more likely to report hallucinations.'

 

The study found young people who had smoked cannabis three or more times in the 30 days before the study were 'significantly more likely' to report hallucinations.

 

'Of interest, we found no association between alcohol use and hallucinations in this sample,' the authors said.

 

The study was conducted by Dr James Scott, of the Child Youth Mental Health Service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Queensland, and colleagues.

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i want some of that shit

[Dragonfan]

Almost one in 10 Australian teens say they have hallucinations, and those from broken homes are among the hardest hit.

. . .

The research, based on the views of more than 1,200 teens aged 13 to 17, is understood to be the first to draw a link to family structure, as those young people living in blended or sole parent families were more likely to report hallucinations.

. . .

'Adolescents ... who had elevated depressive symptoms were more likely to report hallucinations.'

. . .

The study found young people who had smoked cannabis three or more times in the 30 days before the study were 'significantly more likely' to report hallucinations.

. . .

'Of interest, we found no association between alcohol use and hallucinations in this sample,' the authors said.

I have three children, none have EVER reported hallucinations at any stage of their lives! So I suppose they are not the one in 10?

1,200 teens in sole parent families . . . mmm, well I'm a sole parent . . . still, my kids are NOT in the one in 10! [you'd think the odds would be FOR that according to this study].

I KNOW one of my teens has smoked ganja . . . still, no hallucinations . . . [so NOT significant?]

Alcohol withdrawal may bring on hallucinations, but none of my children are 'alcoholics' . . .

 

I'd query seriously their 'sample' . . . and this study as it proves, yet again, nothing!

 

As a further note, teenagers, mmm, they're not want to exaggerate, gild the lily, tell little white ones now are they? Nor are they likely to attention seek by saying things just for the hell of it either . . .

 

I wonder who coughed up for this 'study' . . . the public purse?