Schizophrenia Debunked?

Question

do you think schizpohrenia should be debunked?
i personally think psychiatry made ALOT of mistake,,,,
they made up their own illness such as schizophrenia etc...
i believe people who are schizophrenics have brain funtions problems...maybe they are in some kind of vegetative state this mean they are unaware of surroundings...
the way they see the world is diffrent from normal people...(they are not in reality).
they said that they hear voices etc....
it's quite obvious to me those people have activity going on in their brain...
such as their constantly day dreaming...or imagining things...
their thougts are very disorginsed. they have language impairment.. and often gets disoriented etc... this is not because of chemical imbalance! this is because their brain is damage!

BRAINS SCANS DOES NOT RULE OUT BRAIN INJURY!

50%of people in coma have normal scans.

i have studied psychiatry for 3 years and personally does not believe in chemical imbalance...

Answer 1

i dont know you r a pshyciatry or not...
but you said you studied it 3 years..? or maybe leave your study because you don't believe in chemical imbalance?

i see your points there and i must say you made some really good points.

we all must know that schizophrenia have no valid prove..
so any one can easily be misdiagnosed with schizophrenia...
or anyone can claim he is schizophrenic and psychiatry will believe him. so it may not even be heredity...because we know that they will not be able to do accurate statistics.
don't know if chemical imbalance exist or not....
i know there many causes of brain damaged such as trauma,poisoning,birth defect etc..
my friend was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia...because he thought he hear voices etc.. and later said he did not hear.. he thinks it was his own voice.he have difficulty speaking thinking etc..
like you said he often gets disoriented..time/place etc.
i think schizophrenia should be changed to extreme trauma.
psychiatry asked my friend if he have relatives with simliar symptoms..he said yes his aunt...the psychiatry said his aunt is schizo too! but he did not know she had a car accident b4...
my friend's mri scan are normal..
like you said scans do not rule out brain injury...
i asked my friend why did you say you hear voices!! he said he was really confused....

company/peoples are trying to make profits from these people..
such as drugs, making books etc..

Answer 2

My father never had a brain injury. He was in active combat for 2 years, and he also received word that his brother was killed in another battle. He developed schizophrenia shortly after that. I think you will have to keep digging. My father also did not have disorganized thinking or language impairment.

You say you have studied psychiatry for 3 years. Anyone can read the medical books. I have, and I am not a doctor.

The answerer above me is right. Other members of my family have been diagnosed with it. Did they all have brain injuries also?

Also: you debunk the chemical imbalance theory, which is really a hormonal imbalance. My daughter had a chemical imbalance that caused her to have seizures. Are you going to say that doesn't exist either?

All researchers and doctors do is study patients, and their symptoms. After they find a number of patients with the same symptoms, they name the disease so that it has a specific identity they can refer to. You have debunked nothing.

Answer 3

Brain damage has not been ruled out. I too think something is going on in their brains but I don't fully believe it is all internal Some people labeled schizophrenic do go on to live nearly normal functional lives but are still disabled by the diagnosis because the general public regards schizophrenics as dangerous.

It has been suggested by a committee of psychiatrists that the term DDD (Dopamine Dysfunction Disorder) be applied to patients who hallucinate since the label schizophrenia only serves to cancel the life of the person it is applied to.

I don't think schizophrenics should be debunked as it is a debilitating disease and has not been made up by psychiatrists. It existed much before psychiatry was invented. I personally think the people who heard gods in ancient times and saw Him and wrote about Him (the Bible for example) were ancient schizophrenia (DDD) sufferers.

The delusions that people who have the disorder suffer are explanations they have arrived at to explain something very unwelcome that is happening to them. The fact that they have to come up with some rational (or irrational depending on their education) explanation is evidence that they do not like what is happening to them.They have to rationalize it. Some are so shocked by their experiences of voices and visions; they become catatonic. Others become withdrawn because they are ridiculed or fear others judgement of them; they are not unaware they are schizophrenics and know what the public thinks of that disease.

If you believe that brain activity is neuro-chemical then any abnormal brain activity is a chemical imbalance of some kind. That neuro-leptic medications alleviate this is evidence it is a brain chemical imbalance. I, personally think the meds in some cases reinforce the brains own ability to heal itself over time.

Debunk the present state of knowledge about the brain and its malfunctions but don't debunk the people afflicted with the disorders, please.

Answer 4

I see what youre saying completely and of course you would probably have more facts about this kind of thing than I do because youve studied psychiatry for years..but are you saying that people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia have no chemical imbalance? Youre saying that they have brain damage, right?..But, brain damage due to what? I've read that this disease can be passed on (heredity) so does that mean that generations of familes have all had brain damage?..
I agree with you in a sense because I think we all know in our psyche that if someone like, a doctor tells you that you are basically "crazy' that you will start to believe it and that certain mental illnesses are in "your head"..not only that but this is one of those diseases that can be misdiagnosed so easily..like, for instance..people with chronic anxiety can have some of these symptoms as well, and you can literally have an anxiety attack over thinking that you may be crazy so it all goes hand in hand..and taking meds can't necessarily cure you of thinking negatively right?
My 17 year old brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia last year becuase he said that he "heard voices", and they said that he had "psychosis"..I'm not even sure what that means but..I know that as a teenager you think weird things arent always sure who you are..now is on ALL KINDS of crazy meds even though a couple months ago when he got out of the hospital he admitted that he didnt hear voices and that everyone was telling him that he was crazy so he started to believe it too..
Yeah, I totally see your point!

Answer 5

Let me know who you are to make sure I never see you as a Psychiatrist.

If you have studied Psychistry you would know that there are hormones in the brain. CT scans do show different colors in the brain of people with certain disorder/diseases. It looks grey or blue. It's the increase of knowledge of the brain, its functions, it's chemical make up amongst other things, that doctors can diagnose more diseases.

If you know the symptoms of diseases such as Schizophrenia, but don't experience it and never have you can't say it doesn't exist. Many studies have been done and medications have been made to treat diseases such as this.

Modern medicine has advance, therefore making diagnosing better and more accurate. Also, better tests have been made to better diagnose.

YOU should know there is such a thing as Chemical Imbalance and that the brain contains several different chemicals in order to function properly. Seratonin, epinephrin, norepinephrine etc, are shown and proven to help with certain parts of the brain.

I recommend you don't study in this field. It is not for you. Talk to Tom Cruise, i'm sure he'd tell you a thing or to about mental disorders.

Answer 6

If this question is an example of the linguistic ability of a student of psychiatry then psychiatry is in big trouble!

I suggest that before you try to debunk anything you get a good grasp on the language. Hard to get people to take you seriously when you can't even write correctly.

Sorry but you need to do some more study in english grammar.

Answer 7

It's a condition, and yes they do have a chemical imbalance. People with depression have a chemical imbalance too. It's because of parts of their brain shutting down because of over-stimulation. I have a theory of schizophrenia, but that will come out when I write my book. You mean you studied psychology for three years and know nothing. It's called when you think, chemical in your brain change. When you experience pleasure chemicals, and when you experience fear the chemicals change. And when you're shizophrenic and your thoughts over-stress you it induces a change in chemicals.

Answer 8

their brain is damage?

i understand that you does not believe in chemical imbalance...

but i like answering the occasional question for ironic effect.

this is one.

though i never thought about schizophrenia being a psychological construct. makes some kind of sense, but the style of the question kind of negates the point.

Answer 9

Do you not "believe in" drug-induced psychosis?? And have you never seen psychosis respond favorably to certain drugs? Drugs are chemicals...

Anyway, I am not sure what aspect of schizophrenia you think you are debunking?? Even if you think psychosis is caused by "brain damage" as opposed to "chemical imbalance", what is proven, what has changed?? In other words, even if your bellief is correct, what does one do with it?

Answer 10

Labeling mental illness can be difficult if not impossible. Their are so many variations from one individual to another that it is nearly impossible to compartmentalize each affliction from another.