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NikolaiFyodorov · 4330 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Social Causes of, and Treatments for, Schizophrenia
It's an interesting topic, and an endless rabbit hole once you start engaging with it. I was diagnosed with schizophrenia when I was 19. At the time (this was in the mid to late 90s) the biological interpretation of mental disorders had virtually universal acceptance in the public health system; the idea that I might benefit from forms of treatment other than a cocktail of antipsychotics was dismissed whenever I tried to raise it (on more than one occasion my questioning their value was treated as merely another symptom of psychosis). The turning point for me only came when, after three years, I was transferred out of the clinic and into the lap of a specialist who also had an interest in anthropology.