Posted by Squiggles on June 8, 2007, at 6:53:25
In reply to Re: Shades of Grey?, posted by linkadge on June 8, 2007, at 6:42:33
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> A single episode of clinical depression rarely lasts longer than 8 months. Nash was out of it for longer than that.
>But it comes back through the lifetime.
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> And like I said in previous posts, the recovery rate for shizophrenia is higher in some less developed countries where antipsychotics are not used.
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Well, i'm really not sure about that. It sounds like a loaded argument. Why would that be? Is it the poverty, the social isolation, the lack of understanding of what mental illness is, the diseases, the lack of doctors and especially *psychiatric medication* or just an argument used by anti-psychiatry?
> So there is not a doubt in my mind that this may not have been shizophrenia or some other serious mental illness that improved over time.He did have periods of strange ideas-- that could just have been a breakdown, and not schizophrenia. I think Asperger's or high functioning autism is closer to the description of his life, and very common in brilliant men and women. But of course, that is a guess, and the recovery is the key. I know of no schizophrenics who recover from this disease without constant medication, and that is not a recovery per se.
Squiggles
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