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HereSince1628

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6. Not sure that was meant to reply to me, but I'll say the two are positively correlated
Tue Mar 5, 2013, 10:15 AM
Mar 2013

Mental illness frequently interferes with the capacity for 'normal' socio-economic functioning. The sort of dysfunction that results in regular or long hospitalizations severely interferes with employment. Overtime interruptions interfere with employability, earnings capacity and access to employer provided benefits leading to worsening health and increasing impoverishment.

Of course there are exceptions...but the existence of exceptions doesn't undo the correlation.




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