Did Irish Famine cause mental illness in future generations?

[mesquite]

www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-famine-triggered-mental-illness-in-future-generations-of-irish-says-historian-231885271-237787491.html




No. The Irish have always been mentally ill.

[Valerie]

She might be able to connect the famine with a higher increase in asylum admissions, but there's no way her research will show a direct link to actual mental illness. Not without real diagnoses and documentation. It's pretty convenient that she claims it only lasted for a while, so when she doesn't find any relation to the famine and mental illness in the present, her butt's already covered.