Sister, you're bumming me out.Your relationships with your siblings may affect your mental health, says a study in The American Journal of Psychiatry The American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) is the most widely read psychiatric journal in the world. It covers topics on biological psychiatry, treatment innovations, forensic, ethical, economic, and social issues. . Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) is a hospital in the Longwood Area of the Boston, Massachusetts neighborhood of Mission Hill. With Massachusetts General Hospital, it is one of the two founding members of Partners HealthCare. and Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. in Boston followed 229 men for 30 years, from about age 20 through 50, surveying them on their childhood closeness with siblings, the quality of parenting they encountered, family history of depression, and whether they'd developed depression by age 50.Of men with no history of depression in their families and an average experience with their parents, those who had a relatively good relationship with at least one sibling sibling /sib·ling/ (sib´ling) any of two or more offspring of the same parents; a brother or sister. sib·ling n. had a 2.3% chance of developing depression, compared to 10% for those who didn't get along with their brothers and sisters. |
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