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Only by a small portion of the psychiatric community. The vast majority believe that the causation runs the opposite direction, that it's self-medication. This has been discussed for years for just about every serious mental illness, in fact. There's no real consensus either way, but most mental health professionals I know agree with this.

(I grew up in a house of mental health professionals, so I've had no dearth of opinions on the matter, to say the least.)



Yet another problem that can be reduced to the chicken V egg dilemma.




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