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]]> http://news.health.com/2008/11/20/compound-tied-cognitive-deficits-schizophrenia/#comment-3038 Note Specialist Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:47:22 +0000 http://healthnewschannel.wordpress.com/?p=8707#comment-3038 Would like to say thank you for the informative content on your blog. M.L. Would like to say thank you for the informative content on your blog. M.L.

]]> http://news.health.com/2008/11/20/compound-tied-cognitive-deficits-schizophrenia/#comment-3035 Nurse Dan Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:08:29 +0000 http://healthnewschannel.wordpress.com/?p=8707#comment-3035 This shows some promise. However a primarily biochemical approach is narrow in scope, and it's convenience for big pharma and profit-driven treatment systems is shamefully obvious. As a psych nurse who works with schizophrenics, it is evident that nearly all have suffered some form of abuse or neglect; and many can report episodes of drug abuse that precipitated their condition. The dynamics of the family of origin, social pressures, inner conflicts, etc., take individuals who are merely *predisposed* to mental illness and cause them to become symptomatic. More supportive environments build compensatory character traits that channel extraordinary sensitivity and burgeoning creativity into productive expression rather than illness. As long as treatment remains profit-driven, we will continue with our molecular myopia, our 19th-century medical physics of patient-as-molecular-mechanism. Because embracing the complexity of these individuals and putting them in sociocultural context obligates us to treat them according to that understanding. And the profit margin for that is very slim. This shows some promise. However a primarily biochemical approach is narrow in scope, and it’s convenience for big pharma and profit-driven treatment systems is shamefully obvious. As a psych nurse who works with schizophrenics, it is evident that nearly all have suffered some form of abuse or neglect; and many can report episodes of drug abuse that precipitated their condition. The dynamics of the family of origin, social pressures, inner conflicts, etc., take individuals who are merely *predisposed* to mental illness and cause them to become symptomatic. More supportive environments build compensatory character traits that channel extraordinary sensitivity and burgeoning creativity into productive expression rather than illness. As long as treatment remains profit-driven, we will continue with our molecular myopia, our 19th-century medical physics of patient-as-molecular-mechanism. Because embracing the complexity of these individuals and putting them in sociocultural context obligates us to treat them according to that understanding. And the profit margin for that is very slim.

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