>I believe I saw an article on this site a week or two before this one on a similar topic. It said in some study it was recently shown that by age 66, the general population had a 1.5% chance of dementia, whereas schizophrenics had a 28% chance of dementia. But I must have misread, it must have been 2.8% for schizophrenics, right? Now I can’t find the article to reread it! Was it in the “Around the Web” section? I would appreciate help finding that article again. Thanks.Edit: Found it, and except for my rounding, it was about what I remembered, quoting from the article “At 66 years of age, the prevalence of diagnosed dementia was 27.9% (17 640 of 63 287) among individuals with schizophrenia compared with 1.3% (31 295 of 2 389 512) in the group without SMI.” The article is by Stroup, here is the link >I’m not sure where I read this Steve, but recall reading that in developing countries, parts of Africa for example, where medication was unavailable, that full recovery from ‘schizophrenia’ was at 60%. There is also the work of Carl Pfeiffer and Abram Hoffer to think about….. Their research/work seemed to falter with the introduction of antipsychotics by the drug companies.Chlorpromazine in the 50s?I had the pleasure of hearing Jaakku Seikkula in UK a few years ago. [Open Dialogue] Fascinating. http://jaakkoseikkula.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/joconstpsycholo2001I.pdfAnd this makes interesting reading!https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-56097028There’s more than one way to ‘skin a cat’.Yep, schizophrenia is curable, and it's not a brain disorder you can find in any scan; it's more likely a severe reaction to having a traumatic life. This brings up another topic. Psychiatry doesn't recognize long-term mistreatment as traumatizing, only one-off events like seeing a guy blow up in a war.
>>524365290read "The Body Keeps the Score"should be an audiobook too
>>524365290https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33688938/https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/09/new-study-sheds-light-antipsychotic-use-leads-dementia/Had to remove these links in OP because 4chan was saying my comment may be spam. So here they are.Also, psychiatry is pseudoscience. Disorders recognized in the West barely even happen in traditional societies like Africa and South America and Southeast Asia. What's going on is the West is nontraditional, so communities and families have broken down and these are the keys to mental health.
>>524365364Trump is bringing back hardcore psychiatry with forced institutionalization in a big way. Some psychiatrists are talking about making lobotomies a lot more common again, along with electro-shock therapy (which never went away). Rest assured, all this will be used against the right in the coming years, as antisemitism will become a diagnostic criterion for schizophrenia. After all, "International Jewry" controlling the world through financial institutions and blackmail rings sounds rather conspiratorial and paranoid. So it'll be a lot of antisemites, left and right, getting the front of their brains removed and turned into living zombies in the early 2030s or so. Right now it's the homeless being targeted, but that will surely spread. And psychiatrists are always eager to get more people in their system and undergoing their treatments.
>>524365956so are we under the guise of harm reduction since we are numba 1 at opioid addiction per capita hereAnyways ive done alot of recreational benzos and rcs but are there any studies on what scheduled prescription use does to your brain vs sporadic recreational use of psych meds?
>>524365290The pharmajew has killed more people than died in the Holly.
Yeah, schizos need to come off their meds. Great call
>>524366525And yet in Africa, 60% of "schizophrenics" are cured according to a major Western medical publication.Is this even a real disease? If so, why is its course so culturally specific?
The truth is, though society won't admit it, most mental illness is situational and societal in its cause, yet our neoliberal era insists that all maladies must be individual in their cause, hence psychological for mental illness, or else there must be a clear material explanation like technological change. It's amazing how many people cannot account for any social problem without just resorting to "technological change." They cannot think sociologically or in terms of social dynamics and cultural circumstances that are unhealthy, but can only think in terms of obviously material entities (even though societies and cultures can be reduced to material factors as well, and it just isn't obvious how to do so). Or, people resort to "chemicals" and viruses etc. but cannot understand how culture and social relations, like breakdown of family and community, and hyper-competitiveness in a rigged game, cause widespread unwellness of the mind.
