I just have a hard time believing (in fact, do not believe at all) that 'schizophrenia' is one uniform illness with one uniform cause. It may well be that EP oil may exacerbate something that is currently under the umbrella of 'schizophrenia', but eh . . . it's all far too uncertain.

Why? Primarily because the "treatments" do not work for me -- in fact, they made me significantly more ill and left me with lasting trauma and permanent physical damage. Secondary reasons include that there is no clear evidence for the treatments working, and the evidence we do have is confounded by fraud and conflicts of interest on the part of the drug companies. I figure that if nothing (standard medical or natural) has been proven to work and the standard medical treatments are backed by legal powers to compel, I'll just stay the hell away!

I won't take BC because taking daily medication gives me panic attacks -- one result of the compulsory treatment order I was put under. More generally, I am disinterested in seeing medical doctors. This is mostly because they try to blame all of my problems (from fevers to broken toes to vision loss) on the diagnosis they saddled me with. It's not that I have positively elected to take "natural" treatments, it's just the residue that's left once standard medicine is excluded.