Schizophrenia

What the hell is actually going on

“Names don’t constitute knowledge” . . . “When you know all the names in every language of that bird, you know nothing, absolutely nothing about that bird.” Richard Feynman

Psychiatric labeling is bundling symptoms into a meme that fronts as an underlying pathology. Psychiatric labeling is name-calling that facilitates sanctioned daily drugging and obscures root causes. Psychiatric labels are descriptions of symptoms that get conflated as the cause. This confusion contributes to people overlooking true causes. Who benefits from this other than those who profit?

A person can be autistic, but they cannot "have” autism because it's not something they can have, because autism is not a cause, it's an effect. The word autism, like other labels, describes a wide set of behaviors. What we actually “have” varies a lot. The various pathologies can all be labeled autism because they present as vaguely similar bundles of symptoms.

What do people actually have, when they say they “have” a psychiatric label such as schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, OCD, ADD, autism or bipolar?

I hypothesize that the explanatory pathologies for autism symptoms, as well as other psychiatric symptoms, are varying degrees and combinations of microbiome dysbiosis, metabolic malfunction, immune system malfunction, toxicity overload, nutrient deficiencies, and, perhaps strong in Asperger’s and trauma, “shards of frozen high-dimensional structure that are unable to be used or metabolized by the lower-dimensional networks they’re embedded.” The situation is exacerbated by a collapsing psychosocial landscape, causing insecurity and memetic confusion. 

Causes can act synergistically to present health conditions that are complex and confusing. Name-calling, psychiatric labeling, can be counter helpful to figuring out a cure.

An example of multiple pathologies acting synergistically would be glyphosate exposure entering the blood through a damaged gut lining, then chelating aluminum into the brain. Then a compromised immune system overreacts to a pathogen and causes encephalitis in the brain, presenting as psychiatric symptoms. Pesticide and aluminum exposures, gut health and immune health all play a role in the example. The MD will suggest drugging to mask the symptoms and talk therapy. An MD is required to write down a fancy label in order to sell the drugs.

When a bunch of symptoms are packaged into a label, that meme can masquerade as an underlying dis-ease pathology. The symptoms get mistaken as the cause. A runny nose is not caused by sneezing. Sadness and low energy are not caused by depression. Attention deficit is not caused by ADD. Not thinking clearly is not caused by schizophrenia — that’s the definition of schizophrenia.

Google presents this information and sources MayoClinic. They claim, “this condition can’t be cured,” but don’t say what the condition is other than "a disorder that affects a person's ability to think, feel and behave clearly.” That sounds like the definition of "disorder." Is the definition of schizophrenia a disorder that can't be cured?

They say the condition is “chronic: can last for years or be lifelong.” How can it only last for years if “this condition can’t be cured”?

For causes they write “a combination of genetics, environment,” which applies to all illnesses. They say genetics and environment “may play a role.” Genetics and environment play a role in everything. In fact, they are the play. They also list “altered brain chemistry” as a cause. That’s the effect. Schizophrenia is altered brain chemistry. They wrote Schizophrenia causes Schizophrenia. It debunks itself.

For the diagnosis to exist, it “requires a medical diagnosis.”

They said it themselves, it’s made up. It exists in the realm of memes. 

Schizophrenia is the boogeyman. The word doesn’t reference an underlying pathology. It’s a catch-all term for situations that mainstream medicine doesn’t understand and cannot cure with a patented pharma product. 

When they say “the exact cause of schizophrenia isn’t known” it sounds like “the exact location of Bigfoot isn’t known.”

There will never be “the exact cause” for “a person’s ability to think, feel and behave clearly.” Why did they say “the exact cause” implying that there could even be one?

Obsessions are not caused by OCD. Depression is not the cause of a depression. Autism, schizophrenia, ADD, OCD, depression, and any other label that does not refer to a specific pathology, are non-explanations that masquerade as explanations. These kinds of labels are useful for victimhood mentality and perpetual drugging. 

Sometimes sick people do get to know the underlying pathology, like coronavirus, Lyme, cancer, strep throat or broken bones. If there’s no clear cause for suffering, the mind craves an explanation and we are susceptible to latching onto quackery like non-explanatory psychiatric labels. 

What do people actually have?

Based Camp | Simone & Malcolm

think people experiencing auditory hallucinations have a hyperactive theory of mind structure running in the background all the time. Theory of mind refers to our human capacity to consider and attribute the mental states of others, like their beliefs, desires and intentions.

Changing a person's fuel source from carbs and sugars, to proteins and fats, can create a shift for people experiencing such discomforts. Could it be that without sugar and carbs, background hyperactivity is reduced to a reasonable level?

How much money is made from prescribing a dietary cure versus prescribing patented pills in perpetuity? Asking for a friend.

Sugars, carbs, industrial grains, and seed oils all provoke inflammation. Furthermore, pathogenic bacteria and viruses live inside our bodies, including inside our brains. What do these microbes feed on best? Sugars and carbs. 

“Schizophrenia is a big bag, where psychiatrists put all the patients who are difficult to understand. There is considerable overlap between depression, bipolar disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dyslexia and schizophrenia. Quite often a patient would be diagnosed as bipolar only to be later re-diagnosed as schizophrenic. Depression is often the only symptom present in a patient for years before other symptoms of schizophrenia develop. Members of the family of a schizophrenic patient often suffer from dyslexia, dyspraxia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism, ADHD and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Just as with childhood learning disabilities we see that psychiatric patients do not fit neatly into our diagnostic boxes. Is it because we are missing some underlying problem, which may be causing all these different conditions in different people?”

From Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride

When I hear that multiple members of a family are labeled, I first think genetics. But then I remember that genes aren't the only thing shared. Environment, microbiome, diet, exposure to pollution, pesticides, phthalates, heavy metals, the memetic environment and relationships are often commonalities among family members. All of these factors shape us. 

Doctors and organizations invent psychiatric labels and utilize them for profit. When asked to explain the pathology of a label, the standard response is “we don’t know” or “it has a genetic component.”

Environment drives genetics. All of our genetics were and are created by environment. All of them. There is nothing but the environment driving our health. The task at hand is to find alignment with our current genetics, our environment, and who we want to be.

Reframing “I have schizophrenia/OCD/depression/ADD/autism/anxiety” to “I am experiencing this or these conditions” doesn’t allow for psychiatric label victimhood, or a copout for figuring out what the hell is actually going on — and curing it.

Further readings:

Tao Lin, The Story of Autism: How We Got Here, How We Heal

Stephanie Seneff, Toxic Legacy

Dr. Campbell-McBride, Gut and Psychology Syndrome

Michael Johnson, Autism as a Disorder of Dimensionality

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Afterword:

It’ll be very difficult to have a healthy mind if you’re stuck in trauma response, anxiety, hypervigilance and/or chronic inflammation. Constant low-grade anxiety wears down the system. For many people, especially young people, living alone can be terrible for health. The body does not perform, or poorly performs, maintenance and repairs, when we are lodged in low-grade danger mode. Around 10% of cells in the brain are microglia. They regulate brain development, maintenance of neural networks, and repairs. According to the NIH, microglia are the “primary innate immune cells of the brain.” Microglia are disrupted by nervous system stress and inflammation. Vagus nerve stimulation can help bring microglia back toward optimal performance. I have personal experience with vagus nerve stimulation via cold exposure and kundalini yoga. VNS is also a formal medical treatment that involves the delivery of electrical impulses to the vagus nerve. 

Dr. Navaz Habib practices functional medicine and discusses on his podcast how pain, emotional or otherwise, is associated with inflammation. Social stress can cause inflammation. In his podcast, he says inflammation causes neurotransmitter imbalance, and neurotransmitter imbalance causes inflammation. It’s a vicious cycle.

From the Health Upgrade Podcast with Dr. Habib and Dr. Chris Keronomos:

“Traumas activate the limbic system. The ongoing fear response disrupts the whole circadian process, disrupts neural pruning, which leads to more dysfunction, in this circle. You’re never in a restorative sleep, your brain doesn’t detox, then you have inflammation and it’s a feed-forward.” 

“From my perspective, vagus nerve stimulation is so potent because it has the ability to address several, if not most, of the various different feed-forward steps making it impossible to get out of this loop of inflammation, neurotransmitter imbalance, hyper-excitation, stress, back to inflammation, down to the gut causing leaky gut, microbiome dysbiosis, and all of it feeding back through the autonomic nervous system with a heightened level of vigilance and sympathetic activation which leads to a higher level of pro-inflammatory monocytes being produced. You can end up with metabolic diseases that are more likely to occur as a result of being in this sympathetically overdriven state, which has its basis in trauma affecting neurodevelopment.”

“The inflammatory state is a heightened level of microglial dysfunction. The ability of VNS to take those microglial cells and move them back to homeostatic housekeeping task focus has the ability to break the cycle all the way around; because again, if you have the ability to have your neurotransmitters be produced in the right levels, you’re not suffering from excitotoxicity with NMDA receptor upregulation, side by side with that you get GABA receptor down regulation. [In the pro-inflammatory vigilant state] You're not only making glutamate more powerful but you're down-regulating GABA which is there to protect you from hyperexcitation. All of that ties back to microglial function, inflammation, and the vigilant state. You see it in concussion. Chronic pain is a big consequence.”

“VNS allows you to stop fighting against yourself, to stop fighting against the most powerful force in the body, the innate and autonomic nervous system. Those two systems together can kill you within 30 seconds.”

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