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Schizophrenia is not a disease and never was. It is behavioral disorder. Who is then defining what is schizophrenia? Is it a physician? Does it have any patho
by rcdwealth 8y ago
Schizophrenia is not a disease and never was. It is behavioral disorder.
Who is then defining what is schizophrenia?
Is it a physician? Does it have any pathological evidences?
The clear answer is NO.
So it cannot be a disease.
It is defined by psychiatrists by voting the
"disorders" in their meetings of American
Psychiatric Association. Such disorders are then
published in the Diagnostic and Statistic Manual:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Manual_of_Mental_Disorders https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_Man...
Further, by researching, one will come to
conclusion that those mental disorders are added
and removed as their assembly wants it. Or
whatever the lobby wants.
It would be good to review the writings of Dr. Thomas Szasz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Szasz
https://www.cchrint.org/about-us/co-founder-dr-thomas-szasz/quotes-on-his-book-the-myth-of-mental-illness/ https://www.cchrint.org/about-us/co-founder-dr-thomas-szasz/...
For human problems there exist human solutions.
How can be a "disorder" which cannot be pathologically proven be "healed" by taking more and more drugs?
- eigenstuff 8y agoI'm schizotypal, which is basically schizophrenia lite... pretty sure there's nothing "behavioral" about my recurring auditory hallucinations of a brass band playing nonsense music.
- dsego 8y agoI think the parent is challenging the circular definition used by psychiatry. Aka you hear voices, therefore you have schizophrenia and you have schizophrenia which is why you hear the voices. For example, I found the following texts thought provoking: http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2010/01/21/schizophrenia-is-not-an-illness/ http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2010/01/21/schizophren... http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2013/01/03/schizophrenia-not-an-illness/ http://behaviorismandmentalhealth.com/2013/01/03/schizophren...