Fortunately, rigorous scientists such as epidemiologists and ophthalmologists actually do empirical analysis such as a case-control study of children in Minnesota diagnosed with strabismus, specifically my condition intermittent exotropia (IXT) (JAMA Ophthalmology article). They estimated an odds ratio of 2.7 (95% CI = 1.7, 4.1) for psychiatric conditions for cases and concluded, "Children diagnosed as having IXT, especially males, are more likely to develop mental illness by the third decade of life compared with children without strabismus." Well, that makes sense because seeing, reading, and learning are so much more difficult thus making it extremely hard to obtain an education, get and keep a job, and have successful relationships. Once again, the empirical data are in complete agreement, given that among the 63% of males with IXT who had a psychiatric diagnosis the most common conditions were depression and adjustment disorder (interestingly there were no specific cases of BPD reported and only a few personality disorders generally in each group). Of course, the CIA quack psychiatrists completely messed up even more because they assigned my older sister obsessive compulsive and eating disorders, even though females with IXT actually were significantly LESS likely than controls to have these specific conditions.
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