Are Psychiatric Disorders are Common Amnog Mental Retarded people?

Scientists have found that psychiatric disorders are more common among mentally retarded people. Most of the children with mental retardation are depressed. This can be partly due to the illness itself and partly due to difficulties they face in their life. Mentally retarded children are more prone to get abused. When a child get abused, it impacts his or her mental status very badly. If the child faces these psychological trauma over and over again, development of psychiatric disorders such as depression is inevitable.