INTERMISSION — WARNING EXPLICIT MATERIAL

What's the POINT?

Maria Bamford is a Comedian that is well known for having Bipolar Disorder, but she also had OCD beginning when she was a child.

There are many people with “psychiatric diagnoses” that have more than one.

The course of this is IDIOSYNCRATIC and INDIVIDUAL even as much is recognized as shared genetic risk in Psychiatric Disorders, and not as much in Neurological Disorders.

This gets to what the National Institute of Mental Health is trying to do — get to COMMON MECHANISMS in Psychiatric Disorders — such as Calcium Channels which are related to the IMMUNE SYSTEM.