{"id":867,"date":"2026-09-09T13:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/?p=867"},"modified":"2026-09-09T13:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T13:55:11","slug":"reint-jelger-youre-saying-with-schizophrenia-violence-is-an-episodic-behavior-or-state-does-that-mean-that-of-the-15-of-schizophrenic-people-that-can-exhibit-violence-they-are-normally-non-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Reint Jelger: You’re saying with Schizophrenia ‚Violence is an episodic behavior or state‘, does that mean that of the 15% of Schizophrenic people that can exhibit violence, they are normally non-violent as well?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Google Gemini: Let’s look at the patterns of violence in schizophrenia step-by-step to answer this clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, to address the statistic: epidemiological research shows that approximately 10% to 15% of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia exhibit violent behavior at some point in their lifetime. This means that 85% to 90% of people with schizophrenia are never violent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the minority who do display violent behavior, describing violence as an episodic state<\/strong> means the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Predominantly Non-Violent Baseline:<\/strong> Even among those within the 15% group, violent behavior is not a continuous personality trait or a permanent baseline state. These individuals are non-violent for the vast majority of their daily lives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. State-Dependent Triggers:<\/strong> Violent episodes are typically tied directly to acute, transient clinical states\u2014most commonly active psychosis (such as acute persecutory delusions or command hallucinations) or periods of severe distress during a relapse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Role of Intervening Factors:<\/strong> The risk of an episode highly correlates with fluctuating external factors, particularly acute substance intoxication or withdrawal, severe sleep deprivation, or sudden treatment discontinuation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Remission and Management:<\/strong> When acute psychotic symptoms subside\u2014whether through proper treatment, medication adherence, or de-escalation\u2014the risk of violence typically drops back to baseline levels.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore, yes: even among the roughly 15% of people with schizophrenia who ever exhibit violent behavior, they are normally non-violent the majority of the time, with aggressive behavior occurring almost exclusively during discrete, acute crises rather than as a persistent pattern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Google Gemini: Let’s look at the patterns of violence in schizophrenia step-by-step to answer this clearly. First, to address the statistic: epidemiological research shows that approximately 10% to 15% of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia exhibit violent behavior at some point in their lifetime. This means that 85% to 90% of people with schizophrenia are never … <\/p>\n

    «Reint Jelger: You’re saying with Schizophrenia ‚Violence is an episodic behavior or state‘, does that mean that of the 15% of Schizophrenic people that can exhibit violence, they are normally non-violent as well?»<\/span> weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baarda.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}