Schizophrenia-a re-examination of the cult (8/3/2017)
“[W]here the soul is divided from the spirit… judge the secret emotions and thoughts…”
Perhaps there is some truth in ancient Syriac-Antiochan Greek philosophy in discernment of the spirit (the will to do something), the soul (the sense of right and wrong), the heart (the emotional sense and intuition) and the mind (the rational capacity weighing gains and risks).
The Japanese in the 1970’s discerned only two states-emotions and reason.
Perhaps, there can be some weight given to the conflict between mind and emotions… schizophrenia.
When the mind and spirt are in conflict there is internal turmoil and the danger of self-immolation.
Best treated not by drugs but by life although psychotropic medication does keep self-destructive character conflict in check and takes the edge off suicidal ideaisation.
Life changes. People change. History runs its course, conflicted minds mend without intervention and problems with self-conflict slip away like snow off a ditch…
That said,the main sources of the cult formed in fever hospitals are cholera, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, dysentery, syphilis, head injuries, cancer, post-viral fatigue, polio, bacterial meningitis, typhus, pneumocosiosis, hyponatraemia, ear infections, extreme stress, political disorientation,cystic fibrosis, encephalopathy, clostridium difficult,extremely low blood pressure, mercurypoisoning,hypochondria,amnesia, sexual problems of identity or infatuation or narcissism, streptococcus pneumoniae,self-neglect, undernutrition, emotional distress or trauma, gastrointestinal problems and parasitic infections.
No one should stay longer than six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. If the stay is longer the hospital is ‘a black site’ for medical experimentation on military convicts, dissenting voices and criminals.
No leeway for doctors!
Psychiatry in the age of modern medicine? Barbarism and experimentation on the unsuspecting.
Joseph Paul Mc Carroll.
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