How schizophrenia’s devastation turned into a story about hope

From Mad in the Netherlands: Our family lives in Belgium. We have two girls, followed by two boys. In May 2012, on his 20th birthday, our first son was diagnosed and stigmatized as “schizophrenia”. To make matters worse, there was no more hope for us, the psychiatrist added: “[1] It is incurable”, which means lifelong disability; and “[2] To survive, the lifelong use of psychiatric medications is required.”

Because psychiatrists assume that schizophrenia is a genetic disease, the stigmatization affected our entire family. Our children were afraid that they would not find the love of their lives: “Who would take the risk of having a schizophrenic child?” Since then, we have met many families who have been traumatized in the same way.

As a research scientist with a PhD in biochemistry and genetics, I learned: “Whoever seeks, finds!” So I started my own research, studying the psychiatric literature. That turned out to be a rather depressing experience.

Read the full article here and the English translation here. 

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  1. That is a very hopeful, and from my personal experience, truthful blog.

    And it’s nice that they state, “When it comes to curing mental illness and shifting the paradigm, the sufferers who have managed to cure are indeed the real experts.”

    Hey, maybe I can be declared NOT “w/o work, content, and talent,” “irrelevant to reality,” and “fictional” some day? Thank you for your acknowledgement of the work of the independent psychopharmacology researchers … and all those who had to heal ourselves.

    And let’s hope and pray that psychiatry, et al, soon stop forcing drugs – that can create both the positive and negative symptoms of “schizophrenia” – on innocent others, for profit.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroleptic-induced_deficit_syndrome

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