Tag: schizophrenia
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Worldwide mental health crisis, stigma, religion and culture
As of 2024, the global population is estimated to be approximately 8.1 billion people. Developing countries, as defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), encompass 152 nations with a combined population of around 6.87 billion individuals. This means that about 85.5% of the world’s population resides in developing countries. Since I – a severely mentally…
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John Nash – without schizophrenia, the smartest man
A few people (unlike me) suffering from schizophrenia can lead a life with a full-time job. John Fobes Nash, who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations, is a fine example (even though he had episodes when he was unable to practice the work as a scientist).…
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Dr. Monkey Ph.D.
People eat, sleep, mate, defecate, relax (because you would waste limited energy), cheat on their partners, observe other people to gain knowledge about the hunter-gathering group to increase their evolutionary fitness (who is a strong man, who possesses resources). We are just monkeys. Homo sapiens are also extremely territorial. They compete for everything: sexual partners,…
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Wikipedia as a health hazard! Never trust it with your health! I paid the heavy price because of their lousy and ridiculous featured article about schizophrenia
More than ten years ago, I suffered from delusions (I didn’t know these were delusions), cognitive impairment, depression and severe negative symptoms (lack of emotions, not enjoying anything). Since I had a turbulent relationship with my psychiatrist who also didn’t warn me about the possibility of having schizophrenia, I relied mainly on a featured article…
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Psychiatry, the dubious science
In the 1900’s there were automobiles, Einstein’s Theory of relativity, sophisticated mathematics, Newtonian physics, evolution theory, and then psychiatry. No hard evidence, no statistical evidence, just observance with all the observational biases. There was no schizophrenia but dementia praecox because of early onset and rapidly deteriorating cognitive deficits. Oh, wait! The cognitive deficits were remarkably…