研究顯示：作家具較高的風險罹患精神疾病

Writers have higher risk of mental illness: study

PR Daily : By Michael Sebastian | Posted: October 17, 2012

Writing can be a lonely, thankless job—even (or especially) in a corporate setting.
It’s been known to drive people to drink.

Now a new study suggests that writers also have a higher risk of mental illness.

寫作可以是一個孤獨的，吃力不討好的工作，即使（或尤其是）在企業環境中就職仍是如此。它驅使人們染酒癮聞名。

According to a Swedish study, writers have a higher risk than the general population of anxiety and bipolar disorders, schizophrenia, unipolar depression, and substance abuse. They were also about twice as likely to commit suicide.

根據瑞典的一項研究表明，作家比一般群眾有較高的風險罹患焦慮和雙相情感障礙，精神分裂症，單相抑鬱症，物質濫用。作家也較高風險罹患精神疾病。 他們解決爭端訴諸自殺的機率亦大於一般的兩倍。

To reach these findings, researchers from the Karolinska Institute looked at the anonymous health records of nearly 1.2 million people over a 40-year period. Their results are published this month in the Journal of Psychiatric Research.

為驗證這些調查結果，卡羅林斯卡研究所的研究人員在近120萬人匿名的健康記錄裡研究超過40年的時間。他們的研究結果發表在本月的精神病學研究雜誌。

Curiously, the creative population as a whole—which includes writers, dancers, photographers, and artists—was “no more likely to suffer from psychiatric disorders than other people,” according to a BBC report on the study.

奇怪的是，根據一個英國廣播公司的研究報告，將創造性的人口作為一個整體，其中包括作家，舞蹈家，攝影師和藝術家，並“不像其他罹患精神疾病的人”。

This isn’t the first study to link writers to mental health disorders. A 2006 report in Yahoo News said that poets had a “much higher rate of mental illness than nonfiction writers who tend to be the most rational and analytic.” Researchers from a different study found that 71 percent of famous 20th-century authors suffered from alcoholism.

這是首次將作家對精神衛生障礙研究聯繫起來。2006年的雅虎新聞 報告中說，詩人的“精神疾病比非小說類作家高得多往往最合理和分析。”

研究人員也從不同的研究發現，20世紀著名作家有71％遭受酗酒危機。

While alcoholism is not to be taken lightly, PR Daily in April asked writers whether drinking helps inspire their work. Here were the results.  

 “雖然酗酒，不能掉以輕心，但4月PR日報詢問作家飲酒是否有助於激發他們的工作。這裡是研究結果。