tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post606925923025930471..comments2023-07-13T05:01:01.343-07:00Comments on Holistic Recovery from Schizophrenia: If it's a swindle, I'm for this oneAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-61454890022271251382010-08-29T07:08:32.523-07:002010-08-29T07:08:32.523-07:00Oh, dear, now I feel I have given the wrong impres...Oh, dear, now I feel I have given the wrong impression. Diet and nutrition is important, so are vitamin supplements. However, they are not the whole picture in many cases. I started out thinking that all I had to do for Chris was to get him on all the vitamins that were recommended for schizophrenia and his issues would magically go away. I think a lot of people also are under this impression. For some people, it actually works, ie. they quickly become whole. But for a lot of people it doesn't. What I realized about the vitamin and nutrition approach is that it is identical to the medications approach in that it looks at mental illness almost exclusively as a biochemical imbalance (just fix the biochemistry and all will be well . . .) Chris has always improved when we did the high dose vitamin supplements, but he also relapsed while we were doing the high dose vitamin supplements (while continuing to do psychotherapy twice a week!), so I went back to the drawing board and rethought this. Your daughter will definitely improve with nutritional and vitamin intervention but it won't be the whole picture. (I also warn about how vitamins can become a tyranny if you aren't careful - search "The tyranny of vitamins" post on my blog. The point about nutritionists on my blog was more about "expert" opinion. It changes all the time. There is also the "expert" trap where the expert only believes in what he or she is doing, and doesn't have a clue about other therapies. So, they often won't endorse anything that they personally don't practice. I have spent most of my energy over the past few years trying to sneak other therapies in that "the experts" didn't believe in.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06700295858497275586noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2894514913516471357.post-80835585973890874962010-08-29T06:19:08.040-07:002010-08-29T06:19:08.040-07:00Oh dear, and a nutritionist was the next step....
...Oh dear, and a nutritionist was the next step....<br />My daughter has terrible eating habits. I cannot intervene. Also too often a comment will come to my blog saying that such and such a combination of things has lessen the mood swings or taken a way the lability during menstruation. <br />I was at a party a couple of seeks ago and a friend told me about a nutritionist in New York City who had helped a number of people she knew and I asked for the name. <br />Clutching at straws? <br />Since my daughter has been home, (you might have missed this chapter - she is here - now recovering from foot surgery) I have more control over her diet and I have been giving her fish oil and vit d. We actually think she is calmer. Mood swings have been shorter-lived.<br />I figure better nutrition can't hurt.Kristinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17383541747197866087noreply@blogger.com