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Originally Posted by paulycoll
Hi ,
John nash's story is one that I take interest to. To the best of my knowledge john had received his education and had done his work on game theory , at least the work he got the nobel for, prior to his psychotic break. John is treated as royalty at the university because of his ground breaking work but also because it adds to the mystique and culture at the university. He is treated as a free spirit and spurned genius lets face it , is sexy. That is not to say his story is still not remarkable.
Elyn Saks takes clozapine , a drug that is very good for psychotic symptoms but has a troubling side effects profile.5% of psychotic patients are prescribed it.
I am not here to run down sz sufferers but I think it unusual that psychiatry and antipsychiatry makes claims that don't seem accurate to me.
Psychiatry seem to be exaggerating the benefits of the drugs and proponents of med free recovery seem to have a cognitive base that are not consistent with the cognitive deficits of the disorder.
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So wait are you trying to find someone on the level of John Nash to chat on PC?
So my understanding of the 25% recovery rate is something like this...either you never get the sz diagnosis percent unknown because szp is included in that 25% for some reason so cut some of that percentage but there are also relapses and remissions where the percent is just the percent who are "cured" at any given time...it doesn't mean any person is ever fully cured I couldn't find any evidence that they ever verified it was the same people who were staying well. Also psychiatrists count people still on the meds as cured so long as they aren't experiencing symptoms above a certain threshold.