My mom was diagnosed schizo effective and had no support system. She had all signs of dementia but doctors said it was due to medications, not dementia. She died of mixed drug interaction. That whole experience gives me great fear of doctors and medications

I believe wholeheartedly, as a schizophrenic myself, that encouraging reading fiction books, listening to stories and watching good movies that all follow a story structure can help control or direct delusions.

Or maybe those people that get better aren't actually schizophrenic to begin with. I know a few people that were labeled as "schizophrenic" & their psychiatrist said they will always be ill & need to take their medications for life. These people eventually recuperated & stopped taking antipsychotic & never had another psychotic episode again! There is such a thing as a brief psychotic episode which is NOT schizophrenia but doctors are too quick to label people & give them brain damaging medication that will surely put a stop to any chance of a recovery!

This kind of post can be very dangerous for those who truly have schizophrenia. I do believe a healthy diet is very important for those who suffer with this illness. But I have experienced first hand with my husband and his brother who have schizophrenia and decided to go no medication/all natural. Both of them have had their disease progress to where they've just about destroyed their lives and no neither of them abuse alcohol or drugs. But being off medication for months/years has proved to be very bad. They can feel good for awhile but eventually the symptoms return. I feel for anyone who has this struggle ❤

I am a recovered schizophrenic who was diagnosed back in 1990/1991 and haven’t been on any meds since 1992/1993. I spent 4 weeks in a psych ward, underwent ECT, and had the whole gamut of very strong intrusive negative thoughts and voices and an intense visual hallucination. I truly believe it is a shamanic/spiritual experience in which some surpass and others do not. The meds only cover up the symptoms for the short term and do nothing to cure the patient for the long term. There are much better methods out there for the long-term cure that don’t destroy the brain.

I noticed that too, time really does heal any illness! My own schizophrenia has improved a lot of over the years, I have developed coping strategies for the positive symptoms and the negative symptoms are improving rapidly over the years too.

I have paranoid schizophrenia. I used risperidone for 5 months. It's been 10 months off and I feel really great. Hadn't had symptoms at all.

So “schizophrenia” may just be a phase some people go through, and medication may keep some people locked in that distorted mental space. ?

My sister has had schizophrenia most of her adult life & spent time in state hospitals over 3 decades. Upon release she stopped taking her medicine and would fall back into catatonia, hallucinations and deep catharsis. After my parents passed away she was left to her own vices with little or no support. If it wasn't for me she would be living on the street, the damage has been done & it's like cleaning up after a 61 year old child.

My husband was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was in his teens. He took the meds for about 10 years and then decided he'd had enough of feeling crappy on those meds. He's never needed medication since and hasn't had any unmanageable symptoms since. The difficult part is when you are psychotic you can be a danger to yourself or others if you suffer paranoid delusions. Medication is the only thing we have to manage that. I hope ongoing research can help find the best way to treat these people because it is so hard for them.

After dealing with a ex , it changed my career path. I am a home care aid. I wanna work with People who Suffer with this period I've learned so much through just watching the videos. But After my experience. With an ex I Had no clue how disabling then this disease could be. And I feel sorry for anybody Suffering with schizophrenia.

They cannot prove for certain that a patient has schizophrenia, there are no tests to prove for certain, many patients are wrongly diagnosed. Once you are diagnosed you are in the system. The treatment is drugs, drugs and more drugs. If they are not effective and cause problems they will blame your illness. The diagnosis and the drugs will be defended that is their main priority, not the patient. If you are on the wrong medication it can cause big problems, it can make some of your symptoms more active and cause many problems. Many patients lives are ruined with the medication.

Hi, my mom got diagnosed and she was on olanzapine which led to massive weight gain. She developed this disease at the end of menopause, so estrogen was very much a factor. We gradually lowered her dose to 0.5mg olanzapine and started ayurveda meds in parallel (we are from India). She's so much better than before and now take olanz only on per need basis.

I came off strong meds in the 1980s because they were disabling me. I stopped abruptly at first and had 4 hospitalizations in 5 months and a suicide attempt. But I was eventually able to cope with a careful taper and effective stress management skills.

We are dealing with my brother's diagnosis and really don't want to use meds because he is a vegan and won't even take Tylenol. This is helpful to hear.

Schizophrenia also gets less worse as you age because of how your brain grows, diagnosed patients tend to have decreased positive symptoms and increased negative symptoms as they get older, which means these people at such old ages would be harder to notice as schizophrenic or fully psychotic or need less positive symptom medicine because of natural positive symptom loss

I did some research about my schizophrenia. And I found out about bread madness, schizophrenia induced by eating gluten. People get better if they eat gluten free. And i am allergic to mugwort and sunflower oil. Some people believe schizophrenia maybe linked to allergy because it's also seasonal illness

(Opinion:) Hello: Thank you for producing this video! I'm a 63 year-old Canadian. Moreover, within the last 25 years and evidently because of a diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia, I took Risperidone for about a 14-year period (at a dose of 4 g per day) and, without my doctor's approval, tried tapering off safely once I started studying the side-effects of Risperidone. I then started studying the side-effects of any medication I was prescribed whatsoever, something I'd recommend to everyone. My Pharmacist wouldn't sell me tapered amounts, and indicated s/he could only give me what was in a doctor's prescription. In addition, I continue to believe that I'd been seeing counsellors, psychiatrists, etc., for so many years because of the effects of having been maltreated by family members when I was growing up. By extension, I've tried more than once to get the RCMP to lay (historical) charges against family members still living, but to no avail. (I just want the RCMP to do a telephone-interview with these family members about the long-term effects of child abuse, and not put anyone in jail. My family isn't a risk to the community!) Folks: If "Adverse Experiences in Childhood" applies to you, then may I suggest that, as soon as you get an assault, or something that meets the definition of mistreatment (of a child,) from a family member, then run, don't walk, to the nearest police station and try to leave a statement in order to press charges. (Go with an advocate, if that helps strengthen your aspect.) Getting criminal charges laid is the correct way to deal with incidents of domestic violence. (If only I'd known this earlier!) But perhaps doctors, seeing people for the first time who are in crisis, could start trying to improve the realities of these people, by first trying to determine if what they've got in front of them in the Emergency Room originated from a criminal matter? (Finally: I'm not a doctor, and whether or not there's an ability these days to obtain medical data hinting at proof of the existence of a mental-illness in a patient is a topic I don't want to delve into during this Comment.) I hope this "food for thought" can help somebody! ♥-Miss Renee K. Taylor, BA (French;) Activist/Whistleblower; Kamloops, BC, Canada/T'kemlups Te Secwepemc Unceded Territory, BC, Kanata (Apr. 26/24.)

The so-called peer movement has known this for decades, but if we say anything antimeds we get in big trouble. Been there done that.

Yes, this video was so helpful!

This is very encouraging. More research separate from the pharmaceutical industry is needed. Unfortunately drug companies have a vested interest in people being dependent on drugs

Thanks. I find your hat comforting and I think your microphone would agree. M.

Thank you very much for this offering, it really opens up a vision for hope.

We had psychosis patients in the ER and instead of bombarding them with Haldol, we tested them for methamphetamine and let them clear up and go home. Most facilities envelop them and flood their systems immediately and never let them go. It’s a 72 hour hold that never ends. also some people are literally psychotic from a major stressful event causing extreme sleep loss of a period of days and adrenaline due to panic and trauma. Again for letting them with AntiPsychotics destroys The ability to assess if it would’ve self resolved because the damage is being done while we’re watching for change in the condition.

Going of my abilify caused me to have rebound psychosis that has been going on and off for 2 months. I only had psychosis for a few days, and started abilify 5 days after it stopped. Should not have ever started abilify.

If you get diagnosed with a disorder like schizophrenia it’s worth it to try getting a full blood panel done to look for a build up of toxins in the body. some otherwise healthy substances can reach toxic levels as well and can throw off the brain’s natural chemical balance. I think the worst problem with psychiatry is they separate mental health from physical health. How can you diagnose and treat a mental health condition without ever looking at the brain like a neurologist would? Another thing about these medications used to treat schizophrenia is they build up in your body and stay there and the longer you’re on them the more toxic the build up of the medication becomes. There are actual medical emergency situations that are caused by this exact build up of the psych medications in the body. The medications can literally kill people. My brother was diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic at age 16 and he passed away at age 24, a month before his 25th birthday. His toxicology report from the coroner found a toxic level of his antipsychotic medication in his body. The worst part was he was on the injection. a very well controlled delivery of the medication.

Psychotic breakdowns get diagnosed as schizophrenia. Doctors been concerned about duty of care, take this option as someone dangerous and out of their mind may harm or hurt themselves or somebody else. So easier to medicate them as it may be very risky to do otherwise. I think all schizophrenia are psychotic breakdowns that have went on too long. Put it this way, during the breakdown the person is so exhausted that their hallucinations and voices are in fact the patient simultaneously in the REM sleep state and awake state. Of course we are not outside observers of our dreams but participants, and that's why it all seems so real to the person with schizophrenia. Now obviously, sedatives are making the situation way worse, the delusions increase. Even more disturbingly when the situation goes on too long, the patient cannot separate their own inadequacies from their diagnosis. For example, a lazy person with schizophrenia would not understand that the voice he is hearing telling him not to do the dishes is in fact his own repressed laziness speaking to him. Many studies in Europe have established years ago that schizophrenia is easy to heal from. The insanity of thinking there is such a thing as a happy pill has lead to this medicated zombification of many. Now doctors, big pharma aren't entirely to blame, what is to blame is people including patients listening to the snake oil salesman to the point where they have fully given themselves over to it.

I don't believe I'm schitznophrenic but my dr says i am. How would I go about getting a real or correct diagnosis. My dr also said i have lifelong depression and would be on med forever. My depression has gone after i took myself off effexor cold turkey.

I give you a little bit of background, deficites in vit b1 can cause korsakoff-wernicke-syndrome, this can look like psychosis, as well as deficites in vit b12, which is needed to break down homocysteine in the blood, which causes inflammation. Therefore, diet can have a huge influence. Another point what can be looked at for the physical causes is for example atlas bone dislocation, so the blood circulation is impaired, which can also lead to brain damage. Those vit b deficites may also cause post partum depression and psychosis (next to the sleep deprivation). If nitrous oxide is used to support the birth, the b12 depot can be depleted, which causes a massive amount of brain damage. There are reports that women have even died because of this. The theory of giving the patients better diets is actually very valid and scientifically supported. (Big pharma doesn't like that, needless to say.)

I have a similar diagnosis and this is a really comforting message. Acknowledging of course the seriousness of schizophrenia and how meds are a major useful aspect of treatment, i have myself found a less medication focused approach is more preferable. Its controversial for people in my life and even my doctor, with these meds being kind of a requirement in many perspectives, understandably. But i had actually been in a place where i was serious about taking meds as needed, if at all, and being responsible about it. I couldn't find support in my support group about the subject, but luckily it really seems to be a benefit more than not to avoid meds. So thanks for this information as even though it's still being researched, this is at least letting me know that there is some logic to the approach.

KarXT is novel drug working on muscarinic receptors but still in research phase

I have Schizophrenia, I take Benztropine and Risperidone and feel like I can live a normal life with this medication just so you know.

Another doc to keep in mind is Joanna Moncrief.

what is the name of the study?

I've tried to benefit from counseling all my life and became disillusioned with psychiatry. I've always maintained that I do not hear voices that I can't identify as my own or my imagination. Recently, a doctor who must have barely reviewed notes sent by my therapist tried prescribing a long acting antipsychotic injection to "help with the voices". I perked up and asked him "who ever said anything about voices?" I just wanted to talk to a professional about a man's research on schizophrenia (Dr. Iain McGilchrist) and I was almost sedated into oblivion for an illness I'm pretty sure I don't suffer from. Even if some type of schizophrenia would be a viable diagnosis for me, I'll never know because I can't effectively communicate with professionals, and I'm too afraid to be trapped a ward again despite never being violent. I don't know how well I'll fair out without support but I feel as though I narrowly avoided a dark path merely by stepping off a conveyor belt.

The initial psychiatrist that I spoke to diagnosed me with major depressive disorder and said it did not look like I had schizophrenia. The psychiatrist above him, whom I did not speak to, diagnosed me with schizophrenia. He's the same guy who diagnosed my friend with the same disorder 10 years ago, when In reality he was suffering from lsd and dmt induced psychosis. He is fine now but he probably changed a bit as a result of 5 years of injections of abilify and invega.

Ur a hero dude ty for spreading the truth misinformation and propaganda are crazy

I have schizoaffective and off meds And when I was hospitalized I was immediately put on high dose antipsychotic and then I was put on antipsychotic antidepressant medication for tremors and anxiety med I think it’s just big pharma tbh

I recovered completely entirely on my own without medication or counseling within a few years by not believing in the hallucinations and delusions.

"Healing Homes, a feature-length documentary film directed by Daniel Mackler, chronicles the work of the Family Care Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden. I saw this doco on youtube. I have no idea why the program/treatment has not been replicated.

I have schizophrenia 😢.

i laughed at the wink wink scene lol

Please dig out dr Hoffer's research, people need to know..sometimes you need to take the risk and taper on your own when there is no support from hs or resistance even and tardive dyskinesia starts. But yes it is very tricky some gradual tapering may be necessary, however I have heard that when tardive starts you should stop immediately..it was not suggested what to do when withdrawal kicks off.. This system is so rotten 😢

I'm unsure about this. Just because they weren't taking medication doesn't mean they got better and didn't need it anymore. I know and love people with schizophrenia who won't take medication because they believe their delusions are 100% real and nothing is wrong with them. Their quality of life is really sad because of this and it's heartbreaking. Id like to hope serious mental illness like this would just go away on its own, but i do know if untreated for long enough you can be beyond the help of medications.

It's not shocking to anyone who can think for himself.

Also there’s a shocking number of people who suffer a concussion, and then later develop symptoms that know what is attributing to the damage from severe concussion. I’m talking unconsciousness and blue lips and ataxia and dysphasia. Throwing psychiatric drugs at it.

My sister has been experiencing this condition since past two weeks, she hear voices in her head she believes what people with havana syndrome believe, she has the symptoms of schizophrenia, what should i do, people are sying that we should take her to psychiatrist asap?

What side effects of olimelt 10mg

Since you’re a psych nurse, can you tell me why people with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder automatically get medication‘s when they’ve had a psychotic break? Is it so they get stabilized faster and can get out of the hospital?

Does this hold true for bipolar with psychosis too? Im medicated with antipsychotics and reeeeeaaaallllllly want to come off.

pretty interesting that you can go into remission or abolition through the cessation

I have the diagnosis, and they forsed and still forse me to take abilify injections…… now im afraid i cant elever quit beacouse of the withdrawl symptoms

Are B vitamins essential if one has this illness? If so, which ones?

So what was the treatment?!?!?

Without my medications I've got my symptoms back really quickly. I've got one injection once per two weeks and feel healthy and normal.

I think its veey important that doctors dont mix physical illness from mental illness Some knows and many dont Its very important to self-advocate for your self in needs

I am schizophrenic. I take one injection a month for it. This video is eye-opening. I can’t believe recovery is possible without medications! This video exposes the myth around schizophrenia that recovery is not possible without medication. I hope this video gets more views and exposes the psychiatry industry. Great video, man! Consider me subscribed!

There is people defficent is serotonin in the sense of low serotonin uptake that's depression an cortisol switched on longer that three weeks that's psychotic depressions where unwanted emphasis of a illogically based dreams could manifest, that's from low serotonin uptake, On the other hand someone with predisposition to psychosis that's illogic without cortisol from high uptake of serotonin too high for cortisol to be switched on, they actually benifit from chemical restraint hormone blocking drugs they need a psychotic antagonist, People with psychotic depression need a psychosis antagonist because cortisol switch on on is psychotic switched on an you need a healthy balence of psychotic an psychosis emotion accessible to both, it's just when one is switched on the other half of people's emotions are missing someone psychosis isn't empathetic, someone psychotic with cortisol switched on isn't empathetic, yet lower psychosis uptake or increase psychotic uptake of serotonin you level these people out, sometimes the imbalance is to high of serotonin so chemical restraint is needed, Someone psychotic can switch off cortisol with marijuana by raising serotonin that's a cortisol inhibitor

A small number of people cannot have normal lives without those meds.

Take this to the medical professionals, not the people who need their help. What is your motivation?

Look at Dr. Peter Breggin work and you will be able expand on this subject for the videos.. good for you being brave and honest ❤

Selective sampling of a small sample size from a very dated era of treatment. You're not suggesting this is any way valid for people now. It's absolutley a certainty that treaament for scizophrenia does reduce the long term effects of symptoms. It's very clear that medication does reduce the long term ruduction in functioning outcomes. Visa versa it's very clear that medications do posatively correlate with better outcomes. Regardless of studies or statistic these studies go against the lived experience of the majority of people who live with schizophrenia. Medication complience is one of the most difficult issues in the treatment of people with psycosis. Each untreated episode of psycosis further exasperastes the long term negative effects. Show me some meta anaylasis of modern studies with modern treatments. This sort of retoric is something you would find being put forward by people like scientologists who are anti psychiatry.

I’m schizophrenic and need help but I have to help my first in the first place lol

Psalm 23 and Psalm 91.

I have this illness and don't take my meds like I should an I been going off the deep end

Reduced stress did wonders for me, it made me quiet lonely because i don't do many things anymore, but the reward is feeling relatively normal again. Altough i also take a small dose of olanzapin on a daily basis.

There were two longitudinal studies, one in Vermont and one in Maine. I talked with the lead researcher in Maine. He told me how complex the study was. Both these studies were published; Vermont 1987 and Maine 1995. Both studies found similar outcomes. I do not know why these studied are not well known. Anyone who is in college and majoring in psychiatry, psychology, social work or psychiatric nursing should be told of these studies. Here we are 30 years later and the are buried in time.

Does it get better after you stop antipsychotics

Thanks for your honesty. Meds have their place, but less is probably much better than more. And support that lifts these people from poverty (common sense if you ask me) may be even more beneficial. Psychiatrists know this is true, but many times they like to play god, and don't have the courage to not tow the line. Ultimately the patient pays the price. Shame on them......

Jesus healed me from schizophrenic. I suffered 6 years with hallucinations and paranoia. 15 years later I’m still completely healed from this illness. After accepting Jesus in my heart I was completely healed from My hallucinations but was somewhat still paranoid. That was until I started working outside with my hands that I no longer suffer with either.

I'm just sick of seeing the 8 dimensions taking place each day. There use to be 6 until tech came along. Now there is day breakers

Meh. I have been sick since I was 2. Wanted to self delete in 1st grade. Can you f'ing fix that?

I've come to he conclusion that schizophrenia is essentially a group of bad habits in one's mind. It's also called double mindedness. A person is essentially not able to be truly in the moment. I've allways disliked the label of schizophrenia, but for people who are hearing camanding voices or violent urges, it sort of makes sense for them to be on meds. That's the vast majority of victims though

God Bless you for caring

When you chuck the book in the trash and empty you have made you first step, very convincing, not what you think.

"For half a century, the creation of millions of Parkinsonian patients may have been misinterpreted as a 'cure' for schizophrenia. Such a wholesale re-interpretation of neuroleptic therapy represents an unprecedented disaster for the self-image and public reputation of both psychiatry and the whole medical profession. Nonetheless, except as a last resort, neuroleptics should swiftly be replaced by gentler and safer sedatives."

For people that only have Schizophrenia they could probably get by taking very little or even no meds at all. But I have Schizoaffective, which is Schizophrenia plus a mood disorder. When I'm off of my meds I feel really pretty frightened and like I might hurt someone or myself. That is why over the past 10 years or so I have used as prescribed. Every day. And if you want to know what is like. It is like being chased by witches and demons, the world is ending, everyone is talking about you, you've sold your soul, and just abject horror and irrational fear. ❤🎉

Aaaaaamen🎉👏🙌🏽✝️ the devil is a liar!

You didn’t say anything. You got mired in details.

Vermont did something right in mental health? shocking

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my drugs. Drugs is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Drugs encircles the world. Logic will get you from A to Z; drugs will get you everywhere. Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of drugs. My drugs functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. Drugs is like a muscle. I found out that the more drugs, the bigger it got. Drugs is the art of seeing things invisible. Drugs is the golden-eyed monster that never sleeps. It must be fed; it cannot be ignored. I believe in the power of the drugs to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen. Drug is the only weapon in the war against reality. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of drugs, nature is drugs itself. Drugs governs the world. Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is drugs left in the world. It's delightful when your drugs come true, isn't it? Hate is a lack of drugs. The world of reality has its limits; the world of drugs is boundless. Truth is a matter of the drugs. Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Drugs should be the center of your life. A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the drugs. Drugs, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. Live out of your drugs, not your history. Drugs is Everything! When you drug me, I don’t feel butterflies. I feel the whole zoo. I love the way you explore my drugs. All I need is drugs and our bed. Your lips are like honey, and your kisses are like drugs. A world without drugs would be a pain in the ass. You make me feel loved because you have so much drugs to give. You drug me, unconditionally, and that’s the sexiest thing I can imagine. To have you share my drugs is a true miracle. When I look into your eyes, I feel drugs; when you kiss my neck, I feel paradise. Nice drugs can I test the zipper? Drugs eliminates stress and reduces blood pressure, so let’s get healthy.

Is there a reason that upon beginning every phrase/sentence/paragraph you change frames so quickly? These jerky motions and quick switches IS NOT good for anyone seeking information or help. This is an eye-opener alright, if you know a miniscule amount of the information you claim to know...then you 100% know this is sabotage to anyone entering or in crisis. This is exactly why someone in crisis that needs help would STOP seeking it! Wow...I am speechless. 'A Psych Nurse' would never exacerbate conditions.

"wink wink 😉😉" heh

Nowadays they have KZfaq channels and call themselves Targeted Individuals or Gangstalking victims.

“Ensure your un-safety?” What’s wrong with you?

"i hope this study has convinced you" frankly, i wouldn't be hoping that it's convinced anyone of anything, otherwise you do indeed start looking like that dude on youtube telling people that they don't need their meds, much as you may pre-emptively assert otherwise...

9 pills a. Day

Medication period is not the answer.

And one more thing They can go to the Mars...and not even one little thing about the root causes. Why? How easy is to milk from those who doesn't have a voice

This is dangerous to say that you hope this study from 60 years ago has "convinced" us that schitzophrenia may go away on its own. There are many people who will hang their hats on this to avoid treatment and not have the best life they can have.

Completely wrong