The EARLY INTERVENTION IN PSYCHOSIS TEAM started work in June of 2005 and is part of the Mental Health NHS Trust.
It is working to engage with young people, aged from 14 to 35, over a 3-year period, to promote recovery from a psychotic episode.
If you would like further information on this service, please contact: Jim O'Donnell 020 7886 1992
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Physical Causes of Mental Illness
There has always been research into PHYSICAL CAUSES for mental illness. One of the main bodies investigating the above is the SAGB, which explains their work in their latest Newsletter.
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEED IN MENTAL ILLNESS IS FOR PATIENTS TO HAVE AN INITIAL THOROUGH PHYSICAL CHECK
IF THE CAUSATIVE DISEASE IS FOUND AND TREATED APPROPRIATELY THE PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS SHOULD BE REVERSED THUS ENABLING THE PATIENT TO RETURN TO A NORMAL LIFE, CURED.
WE MUST HAVE CURES AND NOT ENDLESS NEUROLEPTICS WHICH, WHILE THEY MAY, AND DO, MODIFY BRAIN SYMPTOMS,
ALSO HAVE DIRE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EFFECTS.
the idea being that the brain becomes functionally disturbed by certain physical diseases, i.e. Coeliac Disease, Hypoglycaemia
Thyroid dysfunction.
Up to 1950 it was widely thought that schizophrenia was basically a gut disease which adversely affected the working of the brain. Damage was found in the gut with inflammatory changes.
Then came the neuroleptic era which tries to do away with SYMPTOMS but offers no cure. It is known that drugs are only palliative. They suppress the symptoms. If the drug is stopped the symptoms return with a vengeance. The drugs are not curative. It is astonishing that the psychiatrists keep trying the new drugs which the pharmaceutical industry provides. The pharma industry is very powerful and has a profound influence on doctors.
Families point out that normal life is rarely possible with drug "therapy".
The SAGB needs volunteers for their research programme (International Schizophrenia Centre, Bryn Hyfryd, The Crescent, GANGOR, Gwynnedd LL57 2AG) Tel. 01248 354048
THE MOST IMPORTANT NEED IN MENTAL ILLNESS IS FOR PATIENTS TO HAVE AN INITIAL THOROUGH PHYSICAL CHECK
IF THE CAUSATIVE DISEASE IS FOUND AND TREATED APPROPRIATELY THE PSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS SHOULD BE REVERSED THUS ENABLING THE PATIENT TO RETURN TO A NORMAL LIFE, CURED.
WE MUST HAVE CURES AND NOT ENDLESS NEUROLEPTICS WHICH, WHILE THEY MAY, AND DO, MODIFY BRAIN SYMPTOMS,
ALSO HAVE DIRE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EFFECTS.
the idea being that the brain becomes functionally disturbed by certain physical diseases, i.e. Coeliac Disease, Hypoglycaemia
Thyroid dysfunction.
Up to 1950 it was widely thought that schizophrenia was basically a gut disease which adversely affected the working of the brain. Damage was found in the gut with inflammatory changes.
Then came the neuroleptic era which tries to do away with SYMPTOMS but offers no cure. It is known that drugs are only palliative. They suppress the symptoms. If the drug is stopped the symptoms return with a vengeance. The drugs are not curative. It is astonishing that the psychiatrists keep trying the new drugs which the pharmaceutical industry provides. The pharma industry is very powerful and has a profound influence on doctors.
Families point out that normal life is rarely possible with drug "therapy".
The SAGB needs volunteers for their research programme (International Schizophrenia Centre, Bryn Hyfryd, The Crescent, GANGOR, Gwynnedd LL57 2AG) Tel. 01248 354048
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