Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gateshead-conspiracy-theorist-5g-mast-21731739

David Patterson, of Felling, was suffering a psychotic episode when he set fire to the BT mast above a garage in Gateshead.

Excerpt:

Newcastle Crown Court heard Patterson, who has schizophrenia, was suffering a mental disorder at the time and had been adversely influenced by material he had read online.

He had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication intended to kill himself but was persuaded not to by a police officer, the court heard.

After reading mental health reports on him, Judge Sarah Mallett imposed a 12 month prison sentence, suspended for two years, with 200 hours unpaid work and rehabilitation.

The judge told him: “You thought it was necessary to destroy it to protect others. Obviously that was a product of your mental ill-health at the time. You were experiencing a psychotic episode at the time.”

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Abstract

Objective: Emerging evidence shows that evening chronotype is associated with mental health problems, especially mood disorders, but few studies have investigated its association with schizophrenia. Based on meta-analytic methods, we aimed to test whether eveningness is greater in individuals with schizophrenia compared with healthy controls and patients with bipolar I disorder.

Method: Medline/Pubmed, Google Scholar, and EBSCO databases were searched up to April 2021 for articles investigating chronotype in individuals with schizophrenia. Two meta-analyses were conducted: individuals with schizophrenia compared with healthy controls and individuals with bipolar I disorder. These meta-analyses were followed by a meta-regression controlling for potential confounders.

Results: Five studies comprising 386 individuals with schizophrenia (age 32.73 years; 67.4% male), 320 with bipolar I disorder (age 31.26 years; 38.3% male) and 638 healthy controls (age 32.19 years; 50.6% male) were included. Participants with schizophrenia were moderately higher on eveningness than healthy controls but they did not differ from those with bipolar I disorder. The difference was not affected by gender, age, and the type of scale used for assessing chronotype.

Conclusions: Individuals with schizophrenia are more evening oriented than healthy controls and have a similar chronotype to those with bipolar I disorder. The results supported the hypothesis that evening chronotype might be a marker of, or a risk factor for, mental health problems in general and not just limited to affective disorders.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34332427/

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