THE SHOCKING TRUTH ABOUT SCHIZOPHRENIA TREATMENT: Do Medications Actually Make It Worse?

In this eye-opening video, we delve into the Vermont Longitudinal Study, which reveals surprising and controversial findings about the long-term outcomes of patients diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s. The study challenges our conventional beliefs about schizophrenia treatment, raising questions about the role of medication in long-term recovery. Join us as we explore these findings and discuss alternative approaches to treating schizophrenia.

[SidheTendencies]

My mom was diagnosed schizo effective and had no support system. She had all signs of dementia but doctors said it was due to medications, not dementia. She died of mixed drug interaction. That whole experience gives me great fear of doctors and medications

[NeverEver]

I am not suprised that some nurses would be the first to start to question it. I once was in a psychatry where I was considered the patient with the "slight symptoms". But I had to witness the torture of a young woman with neuroleptics doing severe damage and pain to her back and especially neck (artificialy induced torticolosis). She was almost comstantly in pain. Now your natural instinct is that this is very evil and that you should stop the people from doing this. But you know if you try to interfere, they will count this as a sign of you beeing "mad". And shift the violence to you. Similarily, if a nurse becomes to critical her or she will propably loose the job. So we just watch, like we would watch a dangerous shool bully. But the mental price for this is high, you never get rid of the guilt.

[Srindal]

I believe wholeheartedly, as a schizophrenic myself, that encouraging reading fiction books, listening to stories and watching good movies that all follow a story structure can help control or direct delusions.

[KitVictorious]

Or maybe those people that get better aren't actually schizophrenic to begin with. I know a few people that were labeled as "schizophrenic" & their psychiatrist said they will always be ill & need to take their medications for life. These people eventually recuperated & stopped taking antipsychotic & never had another psychotic episode again! There is such a thing as a brief psychotic episode which is NOT schizophrenia but doctors are too quick to label people & give them brain damaging medication that will surely put a stop to any chance of a recovery!

[mollyjones]

This kind of post can be very dangerous for those who truly have schizophrenia. I do believe a healthy diet is very important for those who suffer with this illness. But I have experienced first hand with my husband and his brother who have schizophrenia and decided to go no medication/all natural. Both of them have had their disease progress to where they've just about destroyed their lives and no neither of them abuse alcohol or drugs. But being off medication for months/years has proved to be very bad. They can feel good for awhile but eventually the symptoms return. I feel for anyone who has this struggle ❤

[en-noog]

I have paranoid schizophrenia. I used risperidone for 5 months. It's been 10 months off and I feel really great. Hadn't had symptoms at all.

[asteroxfoundation]

I am a recovered schizophrenic who was diagnosed back in 1990/1991 and haven’t been on any meds since 1992/1993. I spent 4 weeks in a psych ward, underwent ECT, and had the whole gamut of very strong intrusive negative thoughts and voices and an intense visual hallucination. I truly believe it is a shamanic/spiritual experience in which some surpass and others do not. The meds only cover up the symptoms for the short term and do nothing to cure the patient for the long term. There are much better methods out there for the long-term cure that don’t destroy the brain.

[reneekathleentaylor]

(Opinion:) Hello: Thank you for producing this video! I'm a 63 year-old Canadian. Moreover, within the last 25 years and evidently because of a diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia, I took Risperidone for about a 14-year period (at a dose of 4 g per day) and, without my doctor's approval, tried tapering off safely once I started studying the side-effects of Risperidone. I then started studying the side-effects of any medication I was prescribed whatsoever, something I'd recommend to everyone. My Pharmacist wouldn't sell me tapered amounts, and indicated s/he could only give me what was in a doctor's prescription. In addition, I continue to believe that I'd been seeing counsellors, psychiatrists, etc., for so many years because of the effects of having been maltreated by family members when I was growing up. By extension, I've tried more than once to get the RCMP to lay (historical) charges against family members still living, but to no avail. (I just want the RCMP to do a telephone-interview with these family members about the long-term effects of child abuse, and not put anyone in jail. My family isn't a risk to the community!) Folks: If "Adverse Experiences in Childhood" applies to you, then may I suggest that, as soon as you get an assault, or something that meets the definition of mistreatment (of a child, ) from a family member, then run, don't walk, to the nearest police station and try to leave a statement in order to press charges. (Go with an advocate, if that helps strengthen your aspect.) Getting criminal charges laid is the correct way to deal with incidents of domestic violence. (If only I'd known this earlier!) But perhaps doctors, seeing people for the first time who are in crisis, could start trying to improve the realities of these people, by first trying to determine if what they've got in front of them in the Emergency Room originated from a criminal matter? (Finally: I'm not a doctor, and whether or not there's an ability these days to obtain medical data hinting at proof of the existence of a mental-illness in a patient is a topic I don't want to delve into during this Comment.) I hope this "food for thought" can help somebody! ♥-Miss Renee K. Taylor, BA (French;) Activist/Whistleblower; Kamloops, BC, Canada/T'kemlups Te Secwepemc Unceded Territory, BC, Kanata (Apr. 26/24.)

[lisadeav]

After dealing with a ex, it changed my career path.
I am a home care aid.
I wanna work with People who Suffer with this period
I've learned so much through just watching the videos. But After my experience. With an ex
I Had no clue how disabling then this disease could be. And I feel sorry for anybody Suffering with schizophrenia.

[piperlynne]

My husband was diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was in his teens. He took the meds for about 10 years and then decided he'd had enough of feeling crappy on those meds. He's never needed medication since and hasn't had any unmanageable symptoms since. The difficult part is when you are psychotic you can be a danger to yourself or others if you suffer paranoid delusions. Medication is the only thing we have to manage that. I hope ongoing research can help find the best way to treat these people because it is so hard for them.

[spandanabuddhavarapu]

Hi, my mom got diagnosed and she was on olanzapine which led to massive weight gain. She developed this disease at the end of menopause, so estrogen was very much a factor. We gradually lowered her dose to 0.5mg olanzapine and started ayurveda meds in parallel (we are from India). She's so much better than before and now take olanz only on per need basis.

[robertrowan]

They cannot prove for certain that a patient has schizophrenia, there are no tests to prove for certain,
many patients are wrongly diagnosed. Once you are diagnosed you are in the system. The treatment is drugs, drugs and more drugs. If they are not effective and cause problems they will blame your illness. The diagnosis and the drugs will be defended that is their main priority, not the patient. If you are on the wrong medication it can cause big problems, it can make some of your symptoms more active and cause many problems. Many patients lives are ruined with the medication.

[JosedeJezeus]

So “schizophrenia” may just be a phase some people go through, and medication may keep some people locked in that distorted mental space. ?

[outoforbit]

Psychotic breakdowns get diagnosed as schizophrenia. Doctors been concerned about duty of care, take this option as someone dangerous and out of their mind may harm or hurt themselves or somebody else. So easier to medicate them as it may be very risky to do otherwise.
I think all schizophrenia are psychotic breakdowns that have went on too long.
Put it this way, during the breakdown the person is so exhausted that their hallucinations and voices are in fact the patient simultaneously in the REM sleep state and awake state. Of course we are not outside observers of our dreams but participants, and that's why it all seems so real to the person with schizophrenia.
Now obviously, sedatives are making the situation way worse, the delusions increase. Even more disturbingly when the situation goes on too long, the patient cannot separate their own inadequacies from their diagnosis.
For example, a lazy person with schizophrenia would not understand that the voice he is hearing telling him not to do the dishes is in fact his own repressed laziness speaking to him.
Many studies in Europe have established years ago that schizophrenia is easy to heal from.
The insanity of thinking there is such a thing as a happy pill has lead to this medicated zombification of many. Now doctors, big pharma aren't entirely to blame, what is to blame is people including patients listening to the snake oil salesman to the point where they have fully given themselves over to it.

[WVMothman]

My sister has had schizophrenia most of her adult life & spent time in state hospitals over 3 decades. Upon release she stopped taking her medicine and would fall back into catatonia, hallucinations and deep catharsis. After my parents passed away she was left to her own vices with little or no support. If it wasn't for me she would be living on the street, the damage has been done & it's like cleaning up after a 61 year old child.

[Saulin]

I have Schizophrenia, I take Benztropine and Risperidone and feel like I can live a normal life with this medication just so you know.

[SpiritualShamann]

I noticed that too, time really does heal any illness! My own schizophrenia has improved a lot of over the years, I have developed coping strategies for the positive symptoms and the negative symptoms are improving rapidly over the years too.

[fiachramacaonrae]

I came off strong meds in the 1980s because they were disabling me. I stopped abruptly at first and had 4 hospitalizations in 5 months and a suicide attempt. But I was eventually able to cope with a careful taper and effective stress management skills.

[kotenoklelu]

I did some research about my schizophrenia. And I found out about bread madness, schizophrenia induced by eating gluten. People get better if they eat gluten free. And i am allergic to mugwort and sunflower oil. Some people believe schizophrenia maybe linked to allergy because it's also seasonal illness

[tubafireguyy]

This is very encouraging. More research separate from the pharmaceutical industry is needed. Unfortunately drug companies have a vested interest in people being dependent on drugs