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Why people with psychiatric disorders tend to miss work and school a lot?
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Illness/Med. effects: They may lack motivation or they be psychiatrically decompensated or severely inpaired. Their psychiatric condition may interfere with their functioning. Medciation may cause adverse side effects that interfere with their normal participation in school or work. Thinking, concentration, memory, motivation problems, mdication induced sedation may cause them not to able to go to school or work.
Answered 5/18/2014
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