I have pondered this for years and figured this is a good forum to ask this question. Out of my inner circle of closest girlfriends, three had brothers who struggled with paranoid schizophrenia, one has a son with schizophrenia and one had a brother with bi-polar disorder. I believe my own brother had some type of nervous breakdown and hasn't been right ever since. What are the odds of that? Does mental illness disproportionately affect males? Also, is it just a weird coincidence that every one of my friends has an affected brother or son, or is it just that it's really that common? What are your thoughts?
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