Personality and Mental Illness: What's the Link?
Sad, angry and negative? Certain emotional traits may raise your risk, but you can improve your outlook.
By Lisa Esposito, Staff Writer | July 21, 2017, at 9:35 a.m.
Genetic variations that influence personality are also tied to the risk of developing mental illness. (Getty Stock)
If you're negative now, will you be clinically depressed later? Certain personality traits appear more likely to lead to future mental illness, while others seem to protect against it. Emerging research builds a stronger case for this connection between personality and mental health. In particular, a personality trait called neuroticism is associated with conditions like major depression, generalized anxiety and other disorders.
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