Posted by Trans-Human on January 16, 2009, at 19:07:13
In reply to Re: Gene link: schizophrenia + Bipolar Disorder?, posted by linkadge on January 16, 2009, at 18:24:13
Reasonable, balanced & intelligent replies; & it may well be that I'm proved wrong. However, it may be that the best scientists will ever be able to come up with is susceptibility.
To my understanding - People can be driven mad. Environmental stresses, severe trauma, certain social circumstances & inter personal relationships can have the potential for causing a "mental episode" - of course these in turn cause bio chemical changes. I don't think it is as simple to say that one over the other causes mental illness, although some may be more susceptible to go "over the edge" than others; due to physical make up. I would think it is complex & involves multiple factors which could well be different in every case; which is reason why bio medicine has not as yet come up with any concrete answers; & why we may have to eventually look outside of the box to reach any kind of definite conclusion.
A purely bio chemical basis to Schizophrenia & other mental illness is not supported by the genuine & astounding recoveries made by people under the care of certain practitioners; including Jung, John Weir Perry, Loren Mosher & others - who all had over 85% full recovery rates; with patients classed as having severe "mental illness". How do these well documented; proved; albeit generally ignored cases, tally up with a purely "orthodox bio medical disease model"? If these conditions had a sole Genetic cause - how were the results of these practitioners obtained using purely psychological means?
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