Court Records Show QAnon Followers Mentally Ill.

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In court records of QAnon followers arrested in the wake of the Capitol insurrection, 68% reported they had received mental health diagnoses.  The conditions they revealed included Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Paranoid Schizophrenia, and Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy -- a psychological disorder that causes one to invent or inflict health problems on a loved one, usually a child, in order to gain attention for themselves.

By contrast, 19% of all Americans have a mental health diagnosis.

Among QAnon insurrectionists with criminal records, 44% experienced a serious psychological trauma that preceded their radicalization, such as physical or sexual abuse of them or of their children.

Depressed, Narcissistic, and Emotionally Detached people are also prone to have a conspiratorial mindset.  Likewise, people who exhibit odd, eccentric, suspicious, and paranoid behavior -- and who are manipulative, irresponsible, and low on empathy -- are more likely to believe conspiracy theories.

Source:  This "The Conversation" Article 

Is anyone surprised?

I am not at all surprised.

Based on interactions we've seen on this very board with QAnon types this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. They sound like they're playing mad libs.

The Rothschilds plan-demic was part of Hillary's plot to serve the shape-shifting alien lizard people from the core of the earth because she's part of a Satanic cult that harvests drenchrom by torturing children in the basement of a basement-less pizza parlour.

This is why I avoid politics completely. Reminds me of this Simpsons scene