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by mystified5016 361 days ago
Schizophrenia is pretty interesting this way. It's rare for it to show up outside of a certain age range, somewhere around 20 to 35 iirc.

It's strongly correlated to genetics, and most people are totally asymptomatic, no idea they have it until one day they do.

The story of sudden-onset schizophrenia inducing a psychosis making the patient unwilling to consider treatment is depressingly common.

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> It's strongly correlated to genetics, and most people are totally asymptomatic, no idea they have it until one day they do.

Depending on whose stats you go with, you can also argue that most people with schizophrenia never know they have it due to anosognosia.