Separation process:
1. Separate because it works.
2. Allow time for the person to become independent and self-sufficient.
3. Educate patient and family about what to do and not do, and how to relate to each other.
4. Allow a five minute phone conversation with family members, followed by careful monitoring of patient over the next 72 hours.
If no regression, then continued gradual reintegration with careful monitoring of progress, but the patient must never return to live with original nuclear family.
This method usually eliminates the need for medication, as long as the patient remains totally separate from family for a long enough period of time (differs from patient to patient). Reintegration requires careful monitoring by a skilled therapist. After the first five minute telephone conversation, it requires careful evaluation for three full days to see if there is any regression, and if there is, it might require another six months or even a year or two of continued separation. Initially, any criticism or even helpful suggestions will come across as disapproval or rejection, which precipitates a shift back into infant feelings/reality/behavior. With total separation, the patient can come out of psychosis and may never require medication again. The disorder can disappear relatively quickly, but sometimes takes months or even years of separation to prevent relapse.
The shift to infant brain results in atrophy of the language centers in the left posterior superior temporal gyrus in schizophrenia because relatively few words are learned in the first 18 months of life. Smooth eye pursuit (Smooth eye is the ability to lock our eye onto a moving target) is present with schizoaffective disorders but not with schizophrenia, which means that this has not yet been developed in the first 18 months of life. The change in areas of brain activity, the disuse atrophy of later developmental structures and the change in neurotransmitter levels is a function of what areas of brain become relatively deactivated or activated. Biological change is the result and not the cause of the disease process. And the mechanism is clearly delayed PTSD from infancy.
A diagnosis of Schizophrenia is stigmatizing, almost a mark of disgrace, as if the patient is responsible for the illness.
There have been many theories as to the cause of schizophrenia, which include genetics *7, biochemical factors *8, prenatal development *9. And brain abnormalities6. However, the cause or causes for schizophrenia have not been clearly established by scientific methods.
Dr. Clancy McKenzie has studied various mental diseases and schizophrenic patients for over 25 years in his Pennsylvania psychiatric practice. He has discovered there is a definite pattern with depression, schizophrenia, and other mental health issues – and they have nothing to do with the current theories. “The treatment of schizophrenia deserves better than what is currently being offered.”
Note: Doctors are not social workers and therefore I believe that those involved in the therapy may find they can think of ways to make it work .Suggestions: plan a camping trip, stay with friends, find a job with room/board. All patients and the situations are different. The least amount of time is 2 weeks. However, the initial time can be longer. So, it fully depends on the patient.
…deficient care during upbringing increased the likelihood of developing schizophrenia --
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