Define "present": Yes, you can have the genetic predisposition (be pre-wired) for mental disturbances at birth. We understand that the brain matures over a long time (22-25 years).This is first seen with the limited newborn that improves to independent walking by a year, concrete thinking until the early teens & advanced thinking by late teens.Psychiatric illness often does not emerge until late teens or later.
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