Media, mental health, and stigma (and really bad science)

This crime show clip shows a medical examiner and a police homicide detective discussing "schizophrenics" and how the disease is genetic, and that they are "crazy strong". Geez, I wonder why those who have mental and emotional problems have problems getting dates, or friendly neighbors for that matter!
Children of people who have been in prison have a greater chance of being imprisoned:Does that mean there is a genetic cause of being in State Prison?
In Freud's time women had a lot of "hysteria" and it ran in families. Did that mean there was a genetic basis for the false disease of hysteria, or did it mean that shrinks were ignorant of the amount of trauma in the lives of the women?
Hugh Massengill

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