Mar 052010
What Is Mental Illness? Schizophrenia to Bipolar Psychology Psychiatry Mental health trauma Icon Photo by Gabriela Camerotti www.flickr.com Visit Dr. Breeding’s Website at www.wildestcolts.com This video was produced by Psychetruth http www.myspace.com Copyright © Wildest Colts 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Hi,
I am a student doing a project on inequalities of mental care for people over 65.
If you have a friend or family member that have or is suffering of lack of care and support you can message me privately.
Thanks
Howard sad Artie has mental illness Wow
I have experience with these people too; I’m one of them.
It’s not fun. It’s never fun. Even when you’re having a good time its followed by crushing, debilitating lows.
Being schizophrenic or schizoaffective is nothing like a recreational drug; it never ends.
The trip never ends, and the trip is rarely fun. Especially if you suffer from paranoid delusions.
I study psychology dude, and I have experience with theese persons cause I work in mdri.
Why I had this idea is that many schizophrenics were shamans in the past, now Im not really sure of what I said but I just have the impression that it might be true.
The state of a man in lsd is similar to a schizophrenic, so think about good trips and bad trips! Some may feel hell under lsd in curtain circumstances, some heaven if theyre ready for it.
If u give drugs to a man that fears it,sure he’ll suffer
DA Rogers, well said! Wish people could be better at recognizing quackery and pseudoscience. And I wish people who spread and profit from vapid antiscience mumbo jumbo could be held more accountable for the harm they cause.
If you ever get the impression that Dr. Breeding is spending more time giving these bullshit lectures and seminars than he is actually treating patients or doing research… It’s because it’s true!
This tired old quack is a spokesman for a laundry load of fraudulent organizations like the Scientology Citizens Commission for Human Rights.
That’s right, when he’s not busy ragging on modern science he’s on the bandwagon with Scientologist demagogues.
And who here is looking to make a profit?
Well,
when ever someone with these problems has one of their “metaphor “attack I hope your close to them so they can beat your azz.. Then you can (SO called) go to the hospital and get some (so called stitches.) All you are is a talking book with absolutely NO idea of what goes through a persons mind. If you did you would not be so pompous about your ways of talking about these issues.
The hypocrisy is unbearable.
Sure! Let’s be absolutely certain not to stigmatize the mentally ill; unless of course they seek TREATMENT for their illness!
Anyone who dares to say that lithium, abilify, or seroquel worked for them should be ashamed! Because I’m sure that this can be defined as “progress” in a movement aimed at ameliorating mankind’s stigmatization of mental disorder.
I’m mentally ill, I’m medicated and I wouldn’t piss on L. Ron Hubbard if he was on fire.
Statistically speaking, people labled as mentally ill are no more inclined to violence than people that are not. This beleif that “mentally ill” people are dangerous is one of the biggest fallacies that negatively affect sufferers.
If your are naturally inclined to violence mental illnes can perhaps highten the likelyhood of violent behavior, but mental illness is NOT the cause of violent behavior. Thanks.
TO EACH HIS OWN, is that clear?
I too was prescribed Abilify, and it worked tremendously well for me.
Abilify has also worked well for many other manic-depressive types.
Just because you’re not comfortable with taking medication doesn’t mean you have the right to deprive and chastise people for seeking the most effective way to combat their anguish.
@abstractenergy25
I never said that social stigmas do not perpetuate the suffering of the mentally ill. I also did not say that the mentally ill are dangerous in general. I said that schizophrenics are a danger to themselves and others. ANYONE suffering from paranoid delusions is potentially dangerous.
I suffer from rapid-cycling bipolar disorder and I can often be a danger to myself as well as others.
I take offense to your insinuation.
Social stigmas DO, perpetuate the suffering of the mentally ill, and as a person labled as ‘mentally ill” I take offense to your generalization, I am not a danger to anyone. People with “mental illness” not only have to deal with their condition, but also the fact that help is extremely limited as are peoples understanding.
Abilify almost killed me, to each his own
To provide treatment/services to people with mental illness, you have to draw the line between normal and abnormal behavior, thinking, emotions, etc. It certainly would be simpler if there was a readily observable biological marker for these disorders, and maybe someday there will be. For the time being, we draw lines that are in SOME ways arbitrary. Not a unique problem, e.g., the line between obese/ not obese, poverty/ not poverty, intoxicated/ not intoxicated. Symptoms plus impairment=illness
@repeater74 Thanks for the clarification, sorry for misunderstanding your point. There are, of course, legitimate criticisms of how mental health treatments are developed and delivered–including diagnosis, most evidence suggests that people with psychiatric disorders are underidentified and undertreated. Dealing with “borderline” cases is a tough issue that demands careful and thoughtful treatment. Mental illness is complex, drawing the line between normal and abnormal is hard, but necessary…
Additionally let me add this: I am a scientist in a genetic engineering lab that focuses on the creation and characterization of animal models for biomedical research. I witness the soundness of this science everyday. For Breeding to insinuate that a schizophrenic is better off in the presence of a calm psychoanalyst than under the collective knowledge of neuroscience pure hubris. It reminds me of the AIDS deniers or faith healers.
What I meant to convey in the statement about pharma is that a diagnosis = income. Often the boundaries of a disorder are stretched to encompass borderline diagnosis. The classic example is osteopenia (which I won’t explain for brevity’s sake). I am most certainly not anti-pharma, but they do bring rake in billions and they are accountable to their shareholders who expect next quarter to surpass the previous. So to recap, I didn’t write “pharma perpetuates psychiatric disorders,”
Bipolar disorder has tell signs in the structure of amygdala, hippocampus, and prefrontal cortex.
Schizophrenia has been linked to abnormalities in certain chromosomal regions.
Depression is often linked to anomalies in the neurotransmitive properties of the brain.
There is no scientific evidence to support these claims? Dr. Breeding strikes me as the type of person who has never read an opposing argument or study.
Way to protrude your own piety without evidence or fact. Congrats, Doc.
@repeater74 How, exactly, do big pharmaceutical companies perpetuate psychiatric disorders? Such an argument needs specifics. How do they perpetuate schizophrenia, autism, depression, Tourrette’s, etc.? And, how would a cure NOT be profitable?
Great points about pharma and the perpetuation of conditions for the sake of profit. I would disagree however that there is no scientific evidence supporting genetic basis for Schz. Many neurodegenerative disorders have strong correlations to mutated genes, ApoE, tau, Parkin, DJ1 and (in the case of Schz) Disc1. These disorders are often both polygenetic and environmental, discounting either of these aspects is ignoring a possible solution.
DritonGusia, schizophrenics are a danger to themselves and others. Paranoid delusions are no laughing matter.
Social stigmas do not cause the mental unease of people suffering from bipolar or schizophrenic disorders. Its the fact that they’re genuinely terrified.
You should all be ashamed of yourselves for dismissing the suffering of so many people. When a person needs help, lend a hand. Don’t stultify them with New-Age psycho-babble.
You’re free to play games with your own lives.
The claim that mainstream mental health treatments do not include therapy is false. A number of therapies have been empirically validated (e.g., cognitive behavior therapy for depression), but combined treatments (medication and therapy) have been the most effective for most people. The idea that psychiatrists (or folks in related fields) do not want to find a cure is silly. The rewards (financial and otherwise) would be tremendous. Biology isn’t everything, but the brain is an organ, right?
Not enjoy it. But actually try to train it down. Social behaviors are learned. Chemical balance appears due to a cause, rather it be mental development or outside sources. To only medicate it, is only hiding and covering the problem.
That’s pretty much all psychiatrist want you to do. They don’t want to go into case studies and therapy for schizophrenia. As well as a ton of other things that have been cured in therapy. It’s the business age. Money money money.
Ridiculous! Stigma causes (rather than results from) the problems experienced by people with mental illness? Stigma can and should be reduced through knowledge and empirically validated treatments, not by pretending mental illness isn’t real. The idea that people should just “enjoy” schizophrenia is offensive in the extreme, substitute another debilitating disease and see for yourself. Treatment CAUSES suffering? Ah, the Golden Age of neglect, isolation, and grotesque quack “treatment.” ???!