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Posted on 11/16/2025 10:54:34 AM PST by fwdude
Having a cat as a pet could potentially double a person's risk of schizophrenia-related conditions, according to an analysis of 17 studies.
Psychiatrist John McGrath and colleagues at the Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research in Australia looked at papers published over the last 44 years in 11 countries, including the US and the UK.
Their 2023 study found "a significant positive association between broadly defined cat ownership and an increased risk of schizophrenia-related disorders."
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
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Trust the science!
Polar icecaps melted by 2012!
Gender is a spectrum!
Two weeks to stop the spread!
It’s going to a long time before they earn their credibility back.
I have problems with the personalities of every cat owner I know of or have ever known. I always find too many screws loose.
I beg to differ. Any science that claims that a human can change sexes has impeached itself as a valid source of truth.
Mine is an outdoor cat that lives on the well sheltered porch with a super insulated (about 4 or 5 inches) heated house above the ground by the front door, with the heater bed wattage replaced to adjust to the season, from mere padding to a passive reflective body heat pad, to 5 watts, to 25 watts, to 40 watts during the dead of winter.
I feed and water the cat twice a day and in return it kills everything that moves in my yard, gophers, scorpions, snakes, harmless birds, field mice.
I’m telling you, Puff-Puff is out to get me.
Yeah, is this one of those “the chicken or the egg” scenarios?
I’d have to be crazy to get a cat.
I’m just here for the comments about cat ladies.
We had 8 indoor cats a few years ago. Down to two now. I feel fine. 😵💫 So does Mini Me.
“I beg to differ. Any science that claims that a human can change sexes has impeached itself as a valid source of truth.”
Where is the evidence the two science claims come from the same source???
a cat is never Owned. It IS the owner
“Cat ladies are in danger, they keep the cats near at hand”
I’d love to see a cat lady, or anyone else, keep a cat anywhere it doesn’t want to be.
What is 'broadly defined cat ownership? Either a cat owns you, or it doesn't.
Now do schizophrenic dog owners.
Testing should be required in all cat hoarding situations.
Which came first, the schizo or the cat?
The apparent link between schizophrenia and cats is a toxoplasmosis infection from a parasite commonly carried by cats. As for correlation and causality, there can be no causation without correlation, so correlation advances the case even if it does not conclude it. As for cats, until recently, I was not a cat person, but at the moment, my black and white former stray is a few feet away sleeping on my bed.
Right in the excerpt - "Psychiatrist John McGrath and colleagues"
Psychiatry is the same "science" that said someone who couldn't look in a mirror and determine their gender could be cured by chopping off body parts and creating fake different body parts.
I don’t believe this. Neither do I.
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