I hope that one day schizophrenia will be cured.
I have plans of what I want to do if I get cured.
Do you think mankind will ever find a cure for schizophrenia?
If so how much time will it take?
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Yes I think sz could eventually be cured. My concern is once you are cured how do you change then thinking you’re used to.
How can they cure a disease that they don’t understand.
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Presently, new drugs are being developed to suppress mentally ill thoughts and tendencies. Neurological medical advances are no where near the capabilities that schizophrenics hope for. How can the imbalance of neuroreceptors in the brain be cured?
New cells, new receptors.
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The grey matter in the brain shouldn’t receive medical attention unless the patient has brain cancer where radiation therapy or some new drug is needed. Jimmy Carter’s brain cancer case is an example.
@anon35453467 if you are going to advocate against searching for a cure, seek another forum please.
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Honestly,
No.
I don’t think they’ll cure schizophrenia, they’re still learning how to diagnose and treat, a cure is very far away if attainable at all.
You should be focusing your thoughts and energy on coping skills,
All this time you spend longing for a cure his unhealthy.
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@Chess24 I’m just being realistic.
We’ve made more progress in medicine over the last 100 years than all of the time preceding, and the progress is happening exponentially. Diseases such as small pox and polio are practically nonexistent. From transplants to diabetes 2, Hep C and HIV.
Schizophrenia is no different. Where treatment is now compared to 100 years ago is like night and day. I’m confident that schizophrenia will be cured within 125 years, but I’m even more confident that a vaccine will be developed within 50 years that will either prevent or manage schizophrenia.
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Maybe computers can cure SZ some day. I don’t see why this disease can’t be cured or prevented within 100 years. It’s probably on the bottom of everyone’s list–I think.
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They might be able to cure it. However there are many factors that influence whether someone gets schizophrenia such as biological and environmental factors so it will be hard to cure.
I am estimating that in 5-10 years we will see a full cure.
Good point.
I forgot about artificial intelligence (AI). Many studies on schizophrenia are published everyday, so it’s impossible for researchers to read all of them, organize them, and analyze them. IBM already has an AI machine called Watson, and Watson can read, organize, analyze, and maybe even make recommendations, regarding all of the studies on schizophrenia in a matter of minutes (something like a billion calculations per second).
Thus maybe my timelines on my previous post are too conservative.
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Well perhaps if medicine, social welfare, and the way people treat each other get better, less people will develop it.
It often takes such a convergence of bad things. In my case there was a history of mental illness in my mothers family, and I was born a little premature and was a sickly 5 pound baby with food allergies. I think the trauma that triggered it was being bullied for years.
If most of those things hadn’t happened, perhaps I wouldn’t have developed full-blown schizophrenia. Or perhaps I would have been one of those that makes a complete recovery.
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Interesting. I was also born premature. Plus both my parents had me at 40+ both coming from families with MIs. I was also bullied and my parents are the kind to traumatize you. I fell on my head when I was a kid, was kidnapped (as a game but I didn’t know it) as a kid, had marijuana once as a young adult…
This all proved to be too much for me.
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Ya, A.I. and maybe computational biology/physics? I don’t know lol. We need to map the whole brain. Maybe run computer simulations and see how the brain works, how it gets schizophrenia, and how to cure it.
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@insidemind when you get AI with IQ 10000, it will solve very quickly that which humans will never solve, or solve very
slowly.
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I think that there will be significant improvement in diagnosis and treatment in 5-10 years. And possibly a cure, as defined as 80% or more improvement for 80% or more patients in 20 years. I think we will be able to prevent sz soon, but we won’t always, in the same way as we know we can prevent fetal alcohol syndrome now, but alchohol addiction is still a problem for pregnant women in some instances. Preventing prenatal infection and malnutrition will help.
@twinklestars more precisely, do you think that the mechanisms of schizophrenia
will be clear in 5-10 years?