Schizophrenia
by
Kate K.
... learned about being modest and patient and persevering. All this served me well when I finally did succumb to sickness, though nothing could prepare me for the onslaught of schizophrenia. In the beginning of the illness the I Ching guided me but soon I was too sick to consult it and set it aside. Only recently have I been well enough to return ...
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The Genetics of Schizophrenia
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Kate McLaughlin.
... n for mental health consumers and their families, put out by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. It shares a small glimmer of hope in the world of mental health research.Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting 1 in every 100 people at some point during their lives. Genetic factors are thought to account for more than 70% of all cas ...
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CNN on Schizophrenia
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Kate McLaughlin.
... hings that simply don’t exist.Even fewer can relate to perpetual noise coming from within.But these are facts of daily life for the millions of Americans diagnosed with schizophrenia.As the blockbuster film starring Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Foxx as “The Soloist” opens in theaters across the country, media outlets are offering ra ...
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Schizophrenia and Violence
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Valash
In general, people with schizophrenia are not violent. In fact, they are more likely to withdraw from people and not want to be bothered. However, in the case of violence for the person with schizop ...
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Natural remedy for schizophrenia
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Peter C.
Could megadoses of Vitamin C and niacin help schizophrenia? I read an article of how one psychiatrist successfully treated the son of a frantic couple who suffered from schizophrenia and was sleeping only one hour per da ...
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What Causes Schizophrenia?
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Dr. Romeo V.
... al population. A paper presented in the January 2008 issue of Comprehensive Psychiatry shows the results of a preliminary study examining the most commonly reported causes of schizophrenia in a sample of 127 urban African Americans. The study participants were asked to endorse items from a list of 30 factors, some of which are congruent with curren ...
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Estrogen for Schizophrenia
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Alan T.
Seems like estrogen has more and more roles as time goes by. Now, we can use it for the treatment of schizophrenia. An Australian study in the Archives of General Psychiatric showed schizophrenic women who get an estrogen patch along with their regular antipsychotic medicatio ...
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Schizophrenia and "The Soloist"
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Dr. Deb
... Soloist is the true story of Los Angeles journalist, Steve Lopez, who befriends a man named Nathaniel Ayers. Ayers happens to be a homeless Julliard trained musician who has Schizophrenia. It is a most special story about loss, friendship, understanding and redemption.Much stigma surrounds Schizophrenia despite research that shows it holds a neur ...
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Coping with Schizophrenia
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ValashSchizophrenia is a serious mental illness that disrupts a person's thinking, emotions, and behavior, which can lead to the extent of isolation to suicidal thoughts. There is n ...
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Schizophrenia and The Theft of a Child
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Kate McLaughlin.
... ad the excerpt below from and article written by Globe and Mail’s Erinn Andersenn. To hear the Bigelow’s tell the story of Jesse’s decline into the abyss of schizophrenia and eventual return, click here.“On a September evening almost nine years ago, Susan and Jay Bigelow called 911, then sat down to dinner in their Toronto h ...
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