Successful Treatment for Psychosis in West Africa - Thoughts By a Former Psychotherapist
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
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The website "Mad in America" provides a solid overview of antipsychotics and provides links to research studies regarding their risks and benefits: www.madinameri...
NAMI says that 1 in 4 people who take antipsychotics will experience tardive dyskinesia: www.nami.org/L...
The United Nations condemns forced psychiatric treatment as “constituting torture”: www.prnewswire...
Examples of antipsychotic drugs (also known as neuroleptics) include: aripiprazole (Abilify), clozapine (Clozaril), lurasidone (Latuda), olanzapine (Zyprexa), quetiapine (Seroquel), risperidone (Risperdal), ziprasidone (Geodon), Chlorpromazine, (Thorazine), and Haloperidol (Haldol).
The Media and the Chemical Imbalance Theory of Depression [a good article]: bit.ly/2y6PzC6
An article by a prominent psychiatrist states that the chemical imbalance theory was never even promoted by psychiatry: www.medscape.c...
A summary of a 2015 British Journal of Medicine article about the myth of the chemical imbalance: www.medscape.c...
A summary of a 2005 PLoS Med article about misleading Big Pharma advertisements that quote the chemical imbalance myth: www.medscape.c...
Links to WHO studies on schizophrenia: psychrights.org... and www.madinameri...
"Possessed by demons" is probably closer to the truth than we might think.
I can agree from what I have witnessed from my family.
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What have you witnessed? (Very important to me as I'm struggling with faith - always doubting if it's enslaving or helping me - and that produces maasive amounts of rage and guilt)
Most likely enslaving you unless its an eastern religion likr buddhism. Islam or christianity?
@@efehansahin2172 I'm curious too
During the lockdown I had the experience of slowly figuring out that THC was causing mild psychosis in me. At first I was disappointed - it just got legalized and I already can't take it anymore? But I've come to appreciate the learning experience of having temporary psychosis recently, oddly enough.
I've heard some describe psychosis as the brain confusing internal objects as external. In some cases, for example, my fear of rejection kept being put on to the outside world, giving me the feeling that I was being talked poorly about by everyone despite that clearly not being the case. Had I not learned to fear rejection during childhood these specific voices would never have appeared in my brain causing me anxiety! Having my brain sort of project well hidden internal conflicts into the external world during that mild psychosis really helped shine a light on to those unresolved problems.
I swear sometimes it’s not the actually psychedelic that causes these symptoms it thrusts them to the forefront of your psyche so you can’t ignore it anymore.
Some double down some go down the path of healing
projection so succinctly explained
Normal people who don't do any drugs at all experience projection all the time. It is not only for the "mentally ill". Large groups also project from the collective sub-c. It's normal.
That said, if mj brot it to your attention and you want to minimize it, Shadow Work is your next move. It's great! It won't totally disappear or stop, but you can get some kind of traction on the process and learn about what is you and what isn't. This will make it less likely that you'll be breaking your relationships by believing people hate you when they don't.
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@@DarkMoonDroid Projection my happen all of the time but it is not healthy to project because it is happening unconsciously. If one is practicing consciousness one will be able to catch oneself projecting and that is good for everyone
They have changed it!!!! That's why it's legal now!!!!! It's one hundred percent GMOd!!!! Believe it!!!!!
I feel like I have so much potential to help others but I’m just stuck so bad in my own pain and mental torture if I could find healing and freedom I would be able to help so many people.
Read the Quran it healed me really
I recite the whole Quran every three days or six days واقول تاج الذكر مئة مره بعد صلاه الفجر ومئة مره بعد صلاة العصر هي شافتني من تسلط القرين تاج الذكر هو لا اله الا الله وحده لا شريك له له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير ❤❤❤❤ والله تشافيت بسببها الحمد الله
I do outreach to homeless, psychotic folks in West Hollywood. The city offers nothing for them. It feels hopeless.
You’re doing God’s work. But it IS hopeless: our system is a corrupt and broken one, and all the charity and good works won’t fix it.
However, the love and attention you give to the people you work with is priceless.
Thank you for your work. I know first hand it isn't easy seeing people in this kind of state and struggle. Even if they're strangers. Lots of self care to you, and them.
I heard LA just passed some legislation that effectively outlaws homelessness, our society is so deeply sick. Good for you for giving yourself to this cause, maybe consider using your talents for organizing work if you can!
I do too but in a different area. We get them into housing so at least they are safe and work from there. Its hard work and there is a high turn over rate at most agencies that serve the homeless. Make sure to self care to prevent burn out.
I think that being offered nothing by the city is better than being medicated
psychosis is treatment for abuse. it brings up past traumas in new light, like your repressed feelings and suppressed emotions are brought forward. You have to interpret it. This has been my personal experience. Severity of course can affect things, for me it has been manageable and I have a support system in this journey
I spent two years in Africa after having witnessed my own brother suffer a psychotic break which then got diagnosed as "schizophrenia"...as it turns out wrongly now in my eyes as I think it was simply a psychotic break induced by an lsd trip.He was not doing that great I believe before and so the lsd I believe simply opened up all the trauma and so on from our family system and and ancestral stuff too I now have later discovered due to my own "spiritual emergence/break through"much later.
I had seen people in Africa who were to all intents and purposes "psychotic"or acting out in such ways that would be seen as someone being "mad"or mentally ill,even one guy brandishing a machete and me feeling very afraid but those around just laughing as they knew him and it seems he did not feel he was a risk and more or less allowed him to come and go as he pleased.I saw another person who was also what you might suppose experiencing some sort of "psychosis"and he was also left to wonder around and people would feed him and so on.
I do not think this is always the case though and I have heard of and know people who have been killed and subject to group violence and attacks and who have died because of their mental health condition.
I have also had long term relationships 7/8 years with a few significant others who come from various countries in Africa and I have to say I found some of the same prejudices,stigma and judgements I may have found from my western "friends".
I know it is very variable in Africa where or how what is called "mental illness might be treated and I also know that people can be killed if they are considered possessed by evil spirits..this does happen unfortunately.
Now I do not know enough how it was precolonial times and how now with the western view of mental illness and western psychiatric model has infiltratrated many African cultures but I also think its important not to simplify too much and say everything western = bad and everything "non western"= good.Sometimes I think there is far too much danger of doing this simplistic analysis and I think it can be more complicated and nuanced than this.
My overall feeling though now and what I see as being the major difference is that community and connection is one of the most powerful healing treatments there is and isolating and marginalising anyone or locating an individual outside of their community or environment as having the problem is one of the most harmful and damaging things any community can do and not looking at what they are going through in terms of social/cultural environment they are in,be that the family of origin or the wider society and unmet needs or blind spots the society may have as the "sick person"more or less being the canary alerting the community to an imbalance or unhealthiness within their social system.
I now see many what are called "mental illnesses"in this light now.People are responding to a breakdown of community structures and meaning and lack of connection which I think is much stronger in many African societies I experienced but often due to extreme poverty and the pressures thereof and also I'm sure the breakdown of precolonial social structures etc which would have sustained people in various ways find they are not able to do so now and some have bought into the western notions and sometimes extreme superstitiousness and fear overtakes.
Whilst I believe in spirit attachments and other archetypal forces of light and dark and basically shamanic type experiences of death and rebirth etc that can be perturbing someone I also strongly believe in the need for real discernment and know there can be many who call themselves shamans who most certainly do not meet that criteria and who can be as abusive and negligent as any western psychiatrist.
I know people now in Africa who are really working hard to fight stigma and also reinstate such strong peer support systems which in my view are some of the most effective ways we can support people to go through whatever they need to whilst setting any safe parameters and boundaries to keep the person and those around them safe"
Daniel, I love how you interpret "evil sprits"!! Evil is "real" and as a religious person I appreciate that you don't just cast aside the notion of good and evil playing a significant role in psychosis
Hi, thanks for these stories of your life.
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Bute yeah, I also love his life stories :)
@@dimitrifeher1232 haahaa you're funny!! Keep your own rules to yourself. I don't have such silly rules. I can comment at anytime of the video when I have the urge to. He has great stories and I keep forgetting to tell him.
Very interesting and wonderful to see how community care is so healing in a safe environment. Thank you
Always interesting your investigations into the human family.
Side note; IF it's auto-immune, a lot of Auto-immune conditions respond very well to whole-food-plant-based diets. Investigate enriching your gut microbiome?
Some interesting progress on anxiety and depression w whole food diets too.
Hey Daniel, definately the exlusion, ostracization, loneliness, is big part of psychosis (it nicely feeds the paranoia, if you feel unwelcomed everywhere, socialy anxious..), also, theres possibility, it is related to immune system, so get good food, something more natural, ketosis does good to schizophrenia, i am trying it right now. guy with schizophrenia
I've heard a fecal microbiota transplant has done wonders for people with autism or schizophrenia. Turns out the gut biome is incredibly important for the brain and consequently the mind. See a gastrointestinal doctor and get your gut bacteria checked, that may be a possibly area of trouble that could contribute to the symptoms.
Read the Quran it really helped me healed me it is your demon got activated I swear to god just try it
God bless you Daniel. Thanks.
I really love your channel.
Dont forget to say hi if you ever come to Brazil. I live in Rio. I watch your film about a therapy they have in Finland to treat Psychoses and schizofrenia. Beautiful movie.
My personal observation is that pop psych industry now a days is bringing more isolation in people's life with their philosophy, they aren't presenting community as something that can have positive impact.
Your views are balanced and wholesome
Thanks for the video Daniel, you really are a visionary: truthseekers strongly approves :)
Glad to have found you.
Vitilago, arthritis, acne, fybromyalgi, IBS... I believe a lot of these autoimmune disorders stem from childhood trauma!
Vaccine trauma
@@AgeofReason bullshit. don't just spread thoughtless conspiracies like that
Read the Quran sister it healed me I swear
And we should not forget: Western medicine and science is also a lot of ideology and a lot of ego. And why is there so much ego? Well... if you weren't wanted as a child then why not just got into medicine, then people are going to want you all the time ;)
Western medicine and science is deeply flawed.
What would you say is the ideology of western medicine?
@@ebstooge I think the main ideology is that most things are pathologized and things are explained using a biological basis as Daniel also states in his video.
Another point is the mind-body separation. Mind and body can't be separated. Every thought, every emotion has a biological basis. And most diseases begin in the gut, which again is connected to the brain and your emotional state. It's all one.
Medicine openly admits that they don't understand where a lot chronic and mental problems are coming from yet it is at the same time suggesting that you need pill xyz to heal.
For acute things, Western medicine is great. They can do a lot of great stuff. I mean... heart transplants.. like WTF? But when it comes to chronic conditions such as autoimmune disease or mental problems which are both on the rise, it doesn't really help anybody.
Medicine shouldn't be based on opinions. It should be based on facts and raw physics.
Gabor Mate made a similar point, said he was attracted to medicine because it made him feel wanted and important, which he hadn't gotten at home.
@@eastalawest1633read the Quran it really helped me I swear ❤❤❤
Interesting view. In EU where I live Olanzapine doesn’t really stun or zombify people like the older pharmaceuticals did. And is also typically combined with the open-hospital treatment (day care) that revolves around community building for schizophrenia
Diet, exercise, community. Or food, work, and love.
The health benefits of less sugar, meat, and overall calorie intake should also be studied more. But it won't because that does not support the industrial machine. Our sciences may be advanced by technology, but its approach is still biased due to society.
Sometimes stripping down all the layers provides a good control setting for our modern assumptions. I mean, if scientists and doctors aren't willing to admit their practices are outdated or biased, then how are they going to make progress?
What percentage is it for the FDA to deem a drug effective? 15%? 10%? And how many doctors are confused and frustrated, behind closed doors, as they try prescribing different drugs to patients while they aren't sure of an outcome?
Meanwhile, the pharmaceuticals continue to overcharge. And the governments love to watch the money grow instead of caring for the people getting sicker.
We live in a pretty messed up jungle. All our evil is right there at face value. It doesn't take a genius. But the truth is inconvenient.
Money isn't evil. It's just a tool. And we are showing what we will do to get it.
Sorry for ranting.
Have you seen the work of Dr. Chris Palmer?
Dont be, its needed
Fascinating story. Would love to hear more!
That is true Health Care!
Beautiful story
Thanks for this Daniel. We had a very tangential discussion in my house similar to this. If you have a problem like psychosis then its better to believe you are possessed by a demon then you believe you are like a broken toy. One is a state of combat where you are going to expel something alien to you, and the other is a position of being broken and helpless needing a fix from someone else. But you mentioned also it was out of the realm of possibility for you to think such a thing could be real? What do you think you ultimately are? An electrical storm in a skull? Or an eternal spirit? Its the same framing as the psychosis problem.
We are both spirit and a bag of meat
That alone, with enough contemplation will cause psychosis like symptoms.
Not only better, but closer to the truth. Indeed, not much hope, if you believe you're clockwork. Vlog City, spare yourself those symptoms. There is also a great Spirit, in Whom we live, and move, and have our being.
Have you noticed any interesting cultural differences in the way they treat people with autism or the way they think of autism in different countries? If so, I'd love to see you do a video on that. I'd love to see you do more videos on autism in general.
I don't think autism as we now understand it exists in many African countries.
Fantastic Daniel xxx where can i buy your books or films please
Thanks :) My films are on UA-cam, linked in the description box of this video. My books are on my website, also linked in the description box.
The day we corelate enviorment with illness will be the day we transcend
Where is this place? I would like to go
Community and purpose have been absolutely lost in American culture.
@10:00 agreed, my sister just got schizo and she hears evil voices environnment of my house annd behaviour of my elder siblinngs is very toxic they do not realize that not everyone has the strength to bear toxicity, My sIster is very pious annd she can not stand the toxic behaviour of my family where fights are going on all the time.
Read the Quran sister I had psychosis too it really healed me alhumdalllah ❤❤❤
Scott Peck in one his book, devotes paragraphs on Evil. He believes it exists.
I think the book you are referring to is called 'People of the Lie.' Amazing book.
Read the People of the lie, it’ll bake your noodle.
How to get one over there? Any thought? Please could you help ? Thank you
Read the Quran i swear it really helped me I was suicidal now I live a satisfied life I had psychosis too ❤❤❤
@@Alfeef Thank you I have to look for it because I have none. I'm glad that you overcame the problems you were struggling with. May God always bless you. Stay strong.
Exactly 💯👍
Hmmmm, what to do when people are having a natural reaction to an unnatural environment??? Ahh, make the environment natural!!!
love it!
So how do i get off anti psycotics, is there a remedy. Ive been on then for 7 years with no symptoms. I honestly think i dont need it. What should i do?
Dietary Copper is good for vitiligo... i eat oysters, liver regularly to keep it at bay
Interesting.
The West is not holistic. The culture is based on compartmentalism, repression and ficus NCG on symptoms rather than root causes.
This story is beautiful and not uncommon. I’ve read several stories about Americans and Europeans being healed in the motherland. Makes perfect sense to me because they are mental health issues as spiritual and community issue.
I don't like the western culture either
Just drug them with psychotropics instead of dealing with anyone’s existential problems keep the cycle of pain going. It is a sad culture pushes by big pharma
Yes..it's all about money in the "west"...big pharma...just keeping people over-medicated and sick...it is kind of a "soul death"...I was like a zombie for years..I am still having taking meds..people getting well really recovering..is something these culture won't allow..these drugs also cause premature death..since they are the culprits of diabetes, heart disease and cance, and obesity...I have to stay in my country and behave all the rules, otherwise I'd be penalized..we are NOT a "free" country..with the most jails in the world, as is the military..I like to comment some times on the internet..I love Danie l Macklers videos..but I don't feel safe commenting on things on the internet...I posted some on these videos because I admire the caring courage of this man...thanks for the reply..yes it's "all about money" and I am trapped in my "country" too...take care my friend.
I am moving to Africa to heal my trauma
I am trying to do the same
Get a good education... Instead of utter nonsense.