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Q: Schizophrenia as a disease ?

asked by: woops on September 9th, 2009

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A simple question.

Who knows what this is? Does psychiatry know what schizophrenia is? Because its pretty obvious that it isn't biological or anything of the sort. How would pills help with this? Because i've seen people take three handfulls of pills a day and it doesn't help at all.

I want answers, or maybe I don't, because that may be a little dangerous to know, but how would I know that without knowing. Therefore Im extremely curious, maybe less secrets should be kept so we would know what to do? You can't really blame the cat for being curious when you don't tell the cat anything can you? Then you would be stupid.

It is so obvious when you go through this that it isn't a disease, and know its not part of the disease to think that your not sick, something is seriously wrong here, and you wonder why we act weird.

Either your a bunch of morons and have no clue or something a little more sinister is going on. I suppose that I can only endlessly wonder about it for the rest of my life because I can't count on honesty can I?

Have you ever seen a "schizophrenic" talking to themselves, they aren't really talking to themselves, it just looks like it to you.

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ServiceU

replied on September 12th, 2009

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i just read how a women's husbands take his pills and he is fine. i cant explain why it wouldnt work for others.
being an alcoholic is a disease, they drink and have an inability to stop.
i have high blood pressure, i was told that it to is a disease, if i dont keep it low it can damage my organs and cause a heart attack or stroke.

They said schizophrenia is a brain disease. brain images had been taken of someone that doesnt have it was compared to someone that has it, and there is a difference in activity in the brain.

Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, University of California, Los Angeles, states that it is a brain disease, so until so one have evidence that it is not......

woops

replied on September 17th, 2009

Experienced User

Well of course there would be differences that occur in our bodies, but these differences may just be side effects of what is underneath and invisible to most, but perhaps these differences are seemingly the problem, but nobody can say for sure why it happens, but I could feel it as it was happening, it isn't a disease at all, whatever occurs in our brains is not why this is happening.
And the pills, they may not be doing anything at all, I get the feeling that things can happen when your on them.
That wouldn't be good would it?
I suppose we'll know one day though.

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