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She’s Nuts about You

Mentally ill people have a 12 percent higher divorce rate than healthy people, a study by Massachusetts’ Harvard Medical School concludes. “Women who are depressed and anxious grab onto the first person who comes along. If you get married at 16, you are not making the best choice,” says psychiatric researcher Dr. Ronald Kessler. “After 16, people who have mental disorders are substantially less likely to find somebody to marry them.” (UPI) ...Sure: you’d have to be crazy to marry someone like that.


Publication Date: 9 August 1998

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