Posted by Christ_empowered on June 23, 2010, at 18:29:13
In reply to Abuse can lead to psychosis or Schizophrenia?????, posted by Phillipa on June 23, 2010, at 12:20:15
From what I understand, its been known for a while that "mentally ill" people often had really rough lives before the mental health system got to them. This, I think, might just be the first study to show that intense trauma has a direct effect in later developing behaviors that would be diagnosed as "psychotic."
Not to go too "anti-psychiatry" here, but...this just goes to show (to me, anyway) that a lot of the "mental illnesses" are just reactions to serious problems that life sometimes throws our way. I think it sucks that a lot of times people get victimized and then they end up in a mental health system that pumps them full of toxic drugs, labels them, and strips them of their dignity...all while saying the problem is a "brain disease," thereby letting society and people in the patient/victim's immediate social network (family, friends, colleagues, etc.) off the hook.
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