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I have a good friend who was diagnosed with schizophrenia before he graduated high school. It was very tragic to watch. Who was once such a bright and capable person, can no longer function in normal society. I found it very difficult to invite him places. Often times I would need to back him up in a physical fight. He wasn't violent, simply incapable of seperating reality from what he saw, often times taking the for…
My landlady's son is schizophrenic. Could a diet of alcohol, pot, and sugar and carbs make the condition worse?
I’ve been diagnosed with Delusional Disorder after a long term infection with the Epistein Barr Virus. I spent a period of time in a deep psychosis. What it seems like now is my brain trying to make meaning out of something traumatic. I believed I was one of the most important people in the world when I was in a state of shock. The delusion still persists despite heavy doses of psychiatric drugs.
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Thank you. Any tips for lowering inflammation? I only know of these; lower intake of alcohol, sleep well, kurkuma, aspirin. Just as a datapoint, I suffer from psychosis and experience a good response to aspirin.
CBD oil is a very powerful anti-inflammatory; CBD can be more effective for people if mixed with some THC, CBD counteracts the psychoactive properties of THC, however I believe THC is contraindicated for the diagnosis of schizophrenia?
THC delivers the high in the weed. I know people who use pot, but I stay far away from it.
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ten years later, bipolar. I didn't trust that western psychiatry could heal the underlying causes so I basically just shut up about it for a decade. After about 10 years, I was suicidal and couldn't ignore it anymore. My intuition told me to find another way, so I started to research on my own. I found a way through that involved MDMA therapy, NARM therapy, holotropic breathwork…
A person close to me is suffering from schizophrenia. We found, to our surprise, that anti-psychotic medications work very well. It changes a person who is not able to function (delusions, disorganized speech, unable to focus or carry conversation, very poor judgement and actions that result in total loss of all possessions and homelessness) back to a person we know well and who can be a normal member of society.
Unfortunately, they don't recognize any of their past symptoms. Eventually they stop taking medication (which is logical on their part, because why would you take medication, if you are not sick?), and a scary slide back begins.
Imagine, if sometime last week, family or friends came to you and told you that you have schizophrenia, and that you should take medication because you have delusions. You don't know what they are talking about. If this happened to you, what would you do? This is the situation many find themselves in.
For any mentally healthy person out there who finds themselves surrounded by loved ones telling them they may have schizophrenia and to please get treatment - please do, even if that sounds ridiculous to you. If you are on and off medication, keep a journal to record how you feel. Do not rely on your own judgement alone - please listen to your friends and loved ones.
My landlady's son is schizophrenic. Could a diet of alcohol, pot, and sugar and carbs make the condition worse?
Alcohol and pot, yes, though use of the two are common because of addiction and self-medication. The other two, no.
Maybe this is because I've been watching Maniac but I've been thinking about this. My hypothesis is based upon the idea that the brain's main purpose is to make sense of the world and to do that it makes predictions and theories of "world" as it goes about. Schizophrenia just seems like this process on overdrive where some of the key processes involved with keeping this overall process stable go awry. One of these mi…
It seems more like a defect in attention, but not a deficit; it’s an overabundance of attention to irrelevant details that the brain ascribes significant meaning to. The reason I have this hypothesis is that ADHD patients tend to have lower concentration of dopamine, whereas schizophrenics have a higher concentration than normal. An example would be ascribing significant meaning to an event that is random. But for th…
I was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ten years later, bipolar. I didn't trust that western psychiatry could heal the underlying causes so I basically just shut up about it for a decade. After about 10 years, I was suicidal and couldn't ignore it anymore. My intuition told me to find another way, so I started to research on my own. I found a way through that involved MDMA therapy, NARM therapy, holotropic breathwork…
I am very happy for you. It is great that you are able to recognize your schizophrenia. Many people who suffer from schizophrenia also suffer from anosognosia, which is a condition of not being able to recognize one's illness. A person close to me is suffering from schizophrenia. We found, to our surprise, that anti-psychotic medications work very well. It changes a person who is not able to function (delusions, diso…
I've never suffered from depression before, so I hadn't been aware of how depressed I had gotten while taking amlodopine. After switching, I checked the known side effects and sure enough depression is one of them -- to the point where some countries have disallow its use!
It really surprised me how much this drug affected my life without my noticing anything out of the ordinary. What's even more interesting is that this summer I got very stressed about work (something that has never actually happened before) and ended up having a panic attack. So now I'm wondering about the new medication! It's crazy.
The big thing that I keep thinking about is, how much of my state of mind is "me" and how much is my medication (or any other things, like drinking coffee, or beer, or not exercising enough, or whatever). It's made me much more conscious about monitoring my mental state and taking some actions rather than just assuming everything is OK. But it's incredibly scary. I've had quite a few friends with mental illnesses and this helps me understand a tiny bit better what they are going through.
Oh, and +1,000,000 on the journal. It's the only way I can keep track of what's going on in my head.
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Alcohol and pot, yes, though use of the two are common because of addiction and self-medication. The other two, no.
Ketogenic diet showed better results in treating bipolar disorder than medication. Bipolar disorder and schizophrenia seem to have to do with mutant mitochondria which metabolize differently. Fed a normal (carb-heavy) diet they are unable to produce sufficient energy, which leads to neurological degeneration.