I am interested to know what schizophrenia treatments like abilify have done to the people in the third world countries… Like whether the meds getting better has eased the streinousness of the illness
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Some countries it showed them chaining the patients. I’m sure karxt going generic will effect that. Lurasidone is generic here this year it will be nice to see it’s effects
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I chose that article on purpose because it admits that the studies done on the subject of schizophrenia recovery in developing countries were somewhat flawed and inconclusive.
Sure, in some 3rd world countries they chain some patients; we stick them in prisons where they are abused and preyed upon. We in developed countries can’t say we’re much more humane.
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I heard that generally the outcome of some sz do a lot better in developing countries. Because they dont have the option to sit around. Its either do or die. And usually not much in the way of meds, so they get through the psychosis on their own eventually and recover. This is what a mental health worker told me anyway. Could be that he was just tired of caring for mentally ill people that rarely help themselves haha.
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I just want to say that to me ‘third world country’ is an offensive term. I prefer developing nation or something alike.
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I live in India and the treatment is 50/50. We totally depend on medicines and not much has been done in terms of research or therapy. People never like to talk about mental illness. They shun the topic. All they know is depression and it needs treatment and look at it as if the person has gone crazy nuts over something useless and mostly they are suicidal.
Also, there is lot of criticism for people who undergo mental illness and they end up in streets mostly without food, clothes and house. Very few are human who look at helping. Also, knowledge wise we need to improve a lot to help understand and treat mental illness better.
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Yeah i was going to say something 
Sort of a cold war relic 
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Chaining patients? We do that here. Netherlands, as “first world” as it gets.
This was news some time back. A mum asked national attention because an institution had chained her son to a wall for three years (pic 1). After all the news, they moved him elsewhere. Where he walks, sports, works. Is not violent (movie 2). He says he is happy. That he doesnt try to escape. He says: if you are kept imprisoned and chained to a wall, you want to escape. If you are free, you don’t want to escape. He is labelled mentally challenged. Think he understood it better than the staff.
I too was chained to a bed once. I was not violent. They thought it would be relaxing me. Nothing as relaxing as having six adult men jump on top off you, undress you and chain you by wrists and ankles to a bed. 
Sorry to go off topic.
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It never happened to me but here they use the nice term ‘fixation’ for it.
They are trying to use it less and less but there is still a long way to go.
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I’ve been chemical coshed many times. Drugged so much I turned into a zombie. Currently I’m in Sri Lanka has the health care isn’t great. If you are mentally unwell here and without family you’ve in the streets begging. I get good health care in my native England. In Sri Lanka the British pound go very far which means I’m rich here. Normally a restaurant worker only gets paid £110 a month.
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Once you’ve retired you can maybe move there.
In Belgium you can receive retirement benefits anywhere in the world.
I’m thinking about spending my retirement in Spain.
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I’m already retired on medical grounds. In England can only leave the country for 28 days.
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But there are plenty of retired people in Spain as well. They don’t receive their benefits anymore?
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You look happy!
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Older people but on disability pension one is only allowed to travel for 28 days at a time. I suppose you don’t have to tell the government
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When you’re in your 60s you should move to regular retirement benefits and be able to move to Sri Lanka imo.
But I’m not an expert on UK legislation.
I love Sri Lanka but I wouldn’t settle here. Hopefully by my 60s I will have long term husband in my life and Sri Lanka isn’t compatible for that.
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Wow thinking about it I’m only 23 years from being 60 years old. I feel old.
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