What is the correlation between mental illness and sexual abuse?

nightmoves

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When I was admitted in to the hospital for manic and psychotic break a year ago one of the first things they asked me was whether or not I had been sexual abused. When I told them I had not (to my recollection) they told me I was "lucky".

Did she say this because people with mental illness are more susceptible to sexual abuse? Or is it because the result of sexual abuse can be mental illness? What is the correlation?
 
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