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Originally Posted by mary123
Sometimes: What is interesting to me about science and studies, is that the theories are always changing and the conclusions are always changing.
Today I went to PBS.org and read an article about the famous " Beautiful Mind" story. That story is over 10 years old. What hasn't changed is the meds. If anything, there is still a huge push to medicate. medicate. medicate. The pharmaceutical companies have not come up with anything new in 10 years for MI, yet they crank out plenty of pills for libido and erections like there's no tomorrow! Some studies show that years of medication can actually cause more harm than good.
And what about those of us who choose not to do meds.? Why isn't there more alternative therapy? Why is it that typical counselors don't deal with psychosis? It would be wonderful if we could sit with a safe person when we need to talk, rather than be referred to someone who prescribes pills.
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So you're right everything is changing both on the medication front and on the therapy front. There is work by harrow et al. that suggests long term that people do better even if they go off the meds AMA. But what I really wanted to tell you about was my therapist for cbt. She was involved in several studies mine, ongoing is about the effects of therapy vs psychoeducation for medication compliance which is pretty boring if the meds don't work for you but she also did two other studies, one was about people who go off the meds, are they helped by cbt? Then the other is people at high risk for psychosis/sz, teenagers with a family history or early symptoms. So they get cbt before even getting sick to see if they can even stop the illness from coming. Wouldnt that have been great to never get sick at all because you had therapy first. So therapy is changing but we need more people trained at least here in the states but in twenty years I think therapy will be standard care.