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The Many Mysteries Of Schizophrenia And Culture

Over the last few days, I have bumped into several interesting items concerning schizophrenia and culture. An article this week in the Washington Post which examined, post-Cho, problems faced by many immigrants in the DC-area with mental illness, especially schizophrenia. One of the big takeaways is that cultural barriers prevent immigrants from getting properly medicated American style. Nice simplistic thesis, especially in light of an article in the same paper two years ago by Shankar Vedantam, examining why schizophrenics in India do so much better than schizophrenics in the US and other developed countries, but which the present reporter fails to mention or account for in her piece. Nice 'dissing of your colleague! Wouldn't it be kind of interesting to ask about that little socio-cultural dynamic?

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Did you relate your concerns to the piece's author? I have found it difficult to find ways of communicating with the authors of various pieces that have interested me. Maybe they feel overwhelmed with queries from "nuts" (like us).
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we are clearly doing something wrong in this country when most schizophrenics continue to see a lifetime of repeated psychosis, unemployment, rejection by families and friends, and the hard fist of the streets...

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II know someone now who has been diagnosed as schizophrenic (he says he hears voices) and has accepted that his case is "hopeless" and that he will have to take medications for the rest of his life. He is sometimes angry about it but believes nothing can be done. Any hint to the contrary naturally makes him anxious because it shakes the acceptance that he has won with such difficulty.