"People with schizophrenia have peculiar nutritional profiles
Schizophrenia may be caused by genetic predisposing factors or environmental
influences. Nutritional methods described herein are guided by the principles of
evidence-based-medicine......"
You can cure schizophrenia with meditation alone. More and more studies
are finding that there are healthy benefits to meditation, even if only
practiced for a few weeks. Here's the story of a woman who was
schizophrenic, suicidal, locked in a mental institution for several months as a
teen and fed the usual antipsychotic medications by the handful who cured her
condition completely with meditation alone - nothing else. Quit all meds
and is completely well, again - from meditation. It's a really amazing
story.
Kicked out of her home at the age of fourteen, Jane Alexander soon
experienced her first breakdown and suicide attempt. The author found
herself inpatient at a psychiatric hospital where she was diagnosed with
schizoaffective disorder: a combination of manic depression and
schizophrenia. Jane was subsequently institutionalized and made a ward
of the State and she went on to live in group homes, state-run
residential facilities and foster families until she turned eighteen. As
an adult, Jane battled raging mood swings, destructive inner voices,
PTSD flashbacks, and deep depressions. These episodes, coupled with her
anti-social behaviors, led to recurring bouts of joblessness and
homelessness. Then, during her last suicide attempt, Jane had an
amazing, profoundly spiritual near-death experience which inspired her
to radically change her life. 'Possessing Me' is a compelling memoir of
mental health recovery. Alexander takes us through the insightful
process of how her mental illnesses began, progressed, and were
ultimately reversed. She describes in exacting detail, her eventual path
to healing from childhood neglect and abandonment, post traumatic stress
disorder and manic depression, as she discovers the secret to lasting
happiness.
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Here's a web site where she tells much of her story in her own words and yes
she was diagnosed as having "genetic" mental illness. (There is
more to the story at the web site.)
I am a 33 year old recovered survivor of 20 years of mental illness. This is
what happened, and how I survived.
Like many of us with mental illness, it all started as I was growing up.
After years of child abuse and psycho emotional family histrionics I was
depressed.
During the summer of 1989 at the age of 14 I tried to kill myself for the first
time of eventually six major suicide attempts. Soon after I also experienced the
first of several psychiatric hospitalizations. There in that place, I was
diagnosed with terminal mental illness, 3 weeks after inpatient admission.
During my stay there, an experience which lasted over 70 days I was tested,
examined, interviewed and therapied for weeks before a consensus diagnosis was
rendered. The hereditary seeds of mental illness had sprouted early in me. I was
told I had inherited an unknown chemical imbalance that in some way profoundly
effected my thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
The diagnoses? Dual Axis 1 diagnosis: Manic Depression, or Bipolar Disorder 1
Schizoid Affective Disorder co morbid with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
After 8 years of clinical psychotherapy, 3 psychiatric hospitalizations, 4 years
spent in residential treatment centers, group homes, mental health lock downs
and 6 months of involuntary medications of perphenazine and lithium carbonate I
remained absolutely and completely lost. Modern psychiatry had completely failed
to help me heal from suicidal depression or any of my problems at all. In fact,
the violation and mistreatment I experienced while in the juvenile mental health
system only made me worse in every way.
Having experienced utter failure with the meds and therapy approach, I gave
myself over to alternative healing. Along my path I have tried to keep an open
mind in the interest of healing myself of mental illness permanently. As such,
the following are just a sample of things I have undertaken in order to
understand their effects on the mind body and emotions.
I have tried self medication, crystal healing, Saint John’s Wort, veganism,
shamanistic purification rituals, flower essences and oils, vitamins and
supplements of all kinds, toning, aura cleansing, chakra balancing, praying,
chanting, music and sound therapy, touch therapy, reiki, toxin cleansings/flushings,
teas, magnets, gems and precious stones, tantra, affirmations and daily quotes,
positive thinking, deep tissue body work and movement therapies, ( Rolfing,
Feldenkrais and Alexander ) chiropractics, in short, I tried everything.
Over the course of a 10 year journey down a path of spiritual, physical and
mental healing. I personally explored, researched and experienced a wide variety
of holistic remedies and alternative therapies in a desperate attempt to find my
mind, myself and my body. I ran into false avenues of recovery along this path
as well.
Many of those things seemed beneficial some times. Several of those therapies
gave me very positive effects. Some of those therapies did absolutely nothing
for me. None of them completely healed me of all my mental health problems....