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RE: Healing Madness with Communication, Conversation, and Love
It might work for some people, but it won't work in all cases. There are a variety of different ways the brain can misfire to produce psychosis or schizophrenia. Some people need their drugs
Hey, sirwagginston. Thanks for the comment. I would agree, but the evidence tends to suggest that these compounds actually create chronically ill individuals over the long term. In this sense, people definitely do not need their drugs...at least not the chemicals handed out by psychiatrists. Furthermore, there is not any strong evidence that the brain "misfires" to produce psychosis. The current cause of "schizophrenia" is unknown, but most psychiatrists will claim that it is a mixture of environment, personal psychology, and genetics. I tend to think it hinges more on relationship problems and difficulties in life, which lead a person to manufacture these symptoms. But that is a whole other conversation.
Not all psychiatric medications are the same, nor all all psychiatrists. I've been on/seen both good ones and bad ones (not for psychosis/schizophrenia). I quit clonidine and methylphenidate, but I wouldn't advise quitting fluoxetine for the majority of OCD sufferers.