He’s stated that genetic studies will reawaken the idea that “Jews carry genes that are polluting the world. Rabbi Moshe Tendler, a medical ethicist, has expressed concerns about studies focusing only on Ashkenazi Jews. There have been several studies requesting volunteers from the Ashkenazi community to help scientists understand the biological basis for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. I did a quick Google search looking for studies on the frequency of Jewish mental illness versus the rest of the world. But, I began to wonder: are Jewish people more prone to mental illness than other populations? Does being hated make one more prone to mental illness? Although they make me ill, I won’t turn away. But, there is one trigger I cannot avoid: hateful, disparaging, irrational comments about Jews and Israel.
I have triggers for my depression and I try to avoid them. Perhaps if those events had not taken place, my switches would not have been activated. My life experiences -from getting lost when I was 4 at the CNE-at one-time Canada’s largest exhibition(hundreds of thousands of people there on any given day), to an unexpected life-threatening condition as a result of a medical error, along with major changes in my personal life, flicked a switch. For example, I come from a family history of depression and anxiety. The environment plays a role-from in the uterus to personal life experiences. Epigenetics deals with the concept of switches that turn our genes on and off.
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