“The deficits reversed when we normalized Neuregulin 1 expression in animals that had been symptomatic, suggesting that damage which occurred during development is recoverable in adulthood,” explained Lin Mei, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, a grantee of NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
I personally get a bit of a repulsion to genetic tampering…
A tinker here… a tweak there… and we can all be made in the image of the person who came up with the process… re-made to the ideals and standards of others.
Of course I don’t want to suffer this illness… of course I’d love it if others didn’t suffer as well.
I’m personally keeping an eye on for better meds and better therapy.
I’d rather learn how to cope with my own brain in my own way… rather then have someone I don’t know manually changing it.
I do not suggest that we stick to just treating the symptoms and not the causes. To cure an illness you have to address the cause of it. If it was a pathogen you would not just keep fixing the damage done by it alone, if you could you would solve the problem and kill the pathogen. In our case it is in a way a sort of pathogen, called a retrovirus. A virus changes DNA. A retrovirus is a virus which gets into the first cell like the egg in the womb and is very lucky to get itself plugged into the Genome of the person.
So it all depends on your conception of the etiology of the illness for how you go on to treat it. Is it caused by a retrovirus, random mutation, maybe the mutation has some sort of advantage but is not worth the costs to brain function, is it a bacteria, brain injury, stress, environment, nurture? What ever the cause is we have to deal with it at the source of the problem.
Remember Neo had to go to the source to free the people from the Matrix.
What is the cause? What is the solution?
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/news/science-news/2013/taming-suspect-gene-reverses-schizophrenia-like-abnormalities-in-mice.shtml
“The deficits reversed when we normalized Neuregulin 1 expression in animals that had been symptomatic, suggesting that damage which occurred during development is recoverable in adulthood,” explained Lin Mei, M.D., Ph.D., of the Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University, a grantee of NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
You can recover even in adulthood.
I am fully functional yet I am not without my share of pain caused by this illness. If there was a cure, I would take it immediately.
I still suffer, I just manage it skillfully.
However, this illness is not to be romanticized. I do not want to be mentally ill. I may have other things going for me despite being mentally ill, but what goes on that no one sees is a constant struggle.
My escape is the pursuit of knowledge and also intense exercise. I am limited by the illness as well as side effects of my medications, and I am on five pharmaceutical meds and then a strong black coffee. I used to be straight edge, which means no drugs not even aspirin or coffee. I was three times the athlete I am today. As a student, I was the same in terms of what I produced, but I didn’t have to study hard at all to learn. In fact, I didn’t study much at all, I just did my homework and read books and also had the ability to memorize pages photographically.
Now I make study guides and outline entire books and have to read the study guides repeatedly.
If a cure is discovered, I will be happy to be the lab mouse/Guinea pig for it.
I think if my schizophrenia got cured I would or be able to get a phd. I know that sounds arrogant but whatever. I think a lot of us could achieve things. It’s probably just a pipe dream that I’ll never experience.
Its a special challenge embedded in my genetics… A true challenge from the cosmos to prove the adaptability of sentient consciousness. In that light a blessing bestowed upon me to be given such a task. People may not see the difficulties, but i do, and perhaps the universe does… And if people spoke to me long enough they might get the general idea.
My approach is different from a lot of people on here.
I have high faith in that this can be combated via neuroplasticity and therapy and no i dont take meds.
To rwally prove that this approach can work… Even if just to myself… Would give me satisfaction for years.
It is my way of exercising. To continuously revaluate what happens in the mind and continue to learn how to control it.
Im hearing voices right now, but they are faint. Even just today i had a short stretch where things were better than they ever had been, and while that got me excited and brought more psychosis about, it was a good sign of things to come.
Sure. I’d even be willing to trade one or both of the ‘chocolate genes’ I’m sure I’ve inherited for this. Especially since the latter have done me no good.
Yes. Only yesterday I was speaking with my case worker about this. The movie the matrix. If I could take a pill that would take it all away. Whether what is happening around me true or not (at this point a question mark surrounding it. Which is a step forward though I should stop here)
Then I would take it.
The matrix is opened at this point.
But given the opportunity to fix it. I’d take it. Healing or ignorance would be peace for me. I have begun to look around at others and think we’ll there life isn’t so bad and they aren’t aware of what is going on. So if I can become that way it would be great.
I agree with you. learning how to deal with it with meds and therapy is better alternative than brain Surgery or other types of medical procedure that may alter someone in a negative way.