According to the Critical Thinking Box Titled "Are People with a Mental

According to the Critical Thinking box titled "Are People with a Mental Illness as Violent as the Media Portray Them?" recent meta-analytic research on mental illness and violent behavior has shown that:

A) people who have a severe mental illness and extreme psychological symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, have a very low level of violent behavior compared to normal people.
B) substance abuse greatly increases the risk of violent behavior by people who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia.
C) people who have a severe mental illness and extreme psychological symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, have approximately three times the level of violent behavior as normal people.
D) substance abuse greatly decreases the risk of violent behavior by people who have been diagnosed with a severe mental illness, such as schizophrenia.