Schizophrenia

Overview

Schizophrenia has no physical abnormality and therefore is not a disease. Schizophrenia is simply a term that psychiatry uses to describe certain types of behaviour that it doesn’t understand and can’t cure.

So where did Schizophrenia come from?

The first patients to be diagnosed with schizophrenia were later found to have been suffering from a virus that caused inflammation of the brain resulting in bizarre behavior. So the original research is all discredited.

29 Medical Causes of “Schizophrenia”

There are at least 29 medical causes of behaviour that psychiatrists label as “Schizophrenia”. The most well-known examples are Folic Acid Deficiency and Heavy Metal Toxicity, but there are many more. For the full comprehensive report on Schizophrenia from Safe Harbor, please click here.

How does a diagnosis of Schizophrenia occur?

Schizophrenia has come to be known as the “For Profit” psychiatric illness. This is because psychiatrists have been unable to establish agreement on what schizophrenia is, only what to call it. Dr Szasz states: “Schizophrenia is defined so vaguely that, in actuality, it is a term often applied to almost any kind of behaviour of which the speaker disapproves.” At the moment the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders describes Schizophrenia in a long rambling barely comprehensible entry with no less than 6 subsections. However, like all psychiatric labels, schizophrenia has only one purpose: to make psychiatry millions in insurance reimbursement, government funds and profits from drug sales.

But isn’t Schizophrenia caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain?

That is what psychiatry would like one to believe. However what they don’t want you to know is that the chemical imbalance in the brain theory is completely discredited. In 2005, when faced with national media pressure, Dr Steven Sharfstein, then president of the American Psychiatric Association, conceded, “We do not have a clear-cur lab test” to prove the existence of a chemical imbalance. Other experts agree. Ron Leifer, New York psychiatrist said: “There is no biological imbalance. When people come to me and they say, ‘Ihave a biochemical imbalance,’ I say, ‘Show me your lab tests.’ There are no lab tests.”

Soteria House successfully treated symptoms of Schizophrenia without drugs

In the 1970s, Dr. Loren Mosher, director of the Centre for Schizophrenia Studies at the US National Institute of Mental Health developed the Soteria Project, designed to treat patients with “love and food and understanding, not drugs”. Without drugs, patients worked at significantly higher occupational levels, were able to live independently or with peers, and had fewer hospital readmissions. Said one young man: “If it wasn’t for this place, I don’t know where I’d be right now ... Soteria saved me from a fate worse than death”. However, such success was a direct threat to American institutional psychiatry. The National Institute of Mental Health condemned the study and cut the project’s funding, forcing its closure and the end of its effective drug-free therapy.

Soteria and Other Alternatives to Acute Psychiatric Hospitalization

Soteria House remains a landmark project and a thorn in the psychiatric drug industry’s side. It is a scientific study that completely shows that people can be effectively helped without drugs. Because of its importance, we have provided the scientific paper.

What about the drugs psychiatrists prescribe for schizophrenia

Psychiatrists prescribe a group of drugs called neuroleptics (“nerve-seizing”) for people they diagnose with Schizophrenia. These drugs were originally developed by the French to numb the nervus system during surgery. However neuroleptics are linked to brain damage and this threatened psychiatry’s use of these profitable drugs. In response psychiatry introduced new “atypical” drugs for schizophrenia in the 1990s promising fewer side effects. However the atypicals actually have even more severe effects. Today, psychiatry clings tenaciously to the antipsychotics as the treatment for schizophrenia, despite their proven risks and studies that show that when patients stop taking atypicals, they improve. More information is available in our publication Side Effects of Common Psychiatric Drugs - please click here.

Case Study

Joan, diagnosed as schizophrenic, had deteriorated to the point where she stopped talking and could not bathe, eat or go to the toilet without help. A thorough physical exam, however, determined she was not metabolizing the glucose that the brain needs for energy. Once treated, she dramatically changed. She recovered and showed no lingering trace of her former mental state.

Case Study

In the Academy Award-winning film, A Beautiful Mind, Nobel Prize winner, John Nash, was depicted as relying on psychiatry’s latest breakthrough drugs to prevent a relapse of his schizophrenia. The film received widespread criticism for its distortion of the real facts. Nash disputed the films portrayal of him taking newer medications because he had not taken psychiatric drugs for 24 years and had recovered naturally from his disturbed state. Why invent a fictitious ending to his life story when the truth that he was able to recover from his demons without drugs is much more inspiring?

What Can I Do?

Take control of the situation oneself - don’t allow a psychiatrist to control your life.
Read CCHR’s report on Schizophrenia - please click here.
Use the Schizophrenia resources listed in our Useful Links section - please click here.
Report any instances of psychiatric treatment for Schizophenia using our Online Abuse Report Form - please click here.
Report any side effects from taking psychiatric drugs for Schizophrenia using our Online Drug Report Form - please click here.
If you or someone you know has been labelled with schizophrenia, then the first step is to first see a competent, non-psychiatric physician to ensure that an undiagnosed, untreated, physical condition is not causing “psychiatric” symptoms.
The next step is to seek out and investigate the use of the many non-psychiatric and workable ideas and practices that can bring about the recovery of mental health, even for the most severely disturbed individuals.

Disclaimer: Please note that the information on this website is for information purposes only.
None of it constitutes medical advice. In order to safely come off psychiatric drugs, we have provided relevant websites in on our Links page. However we provide this information on a buyer-beware basis and you must use your own judgement. No one should stop taking any psychiatric drug without the advice and assistance of a competent, non-psychiatric medical doctor.