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What is the cause of mental illness in general?
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Brain dysfunction: As with most conditions, multiple genes interact resulting in some degree of vulnerability or resistance, interacting with environmental stress which can have different effects based upon when in life or how many/often they occur.
Answered 5/8/2016
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