Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia, at the least is largely over diagnosed.  I am quite sure most people who have to deal with this diagnosis have their lives disrupted by some quasi diagnosis that is not capturing the totality of their experience due to limits in communication, time, and human ability to be compassionate, care, or understand.  In fact, I think it is probably not accurate for anyone.  I am quite sure the people who really suffer with psychosis and delusions and start doing things like digging a hole into the skin of their heads as they attempt to remove a thought or voice or stimulus from their brain, are not even schizophrenic.  These people are in a different category.  They are delusional and persistent.  They seemed to be resistant to educating themselves.  Although maybe those ones do have an organic issue with some neurons in their brain being hyperactive.  This is more like a seizure.  An issue of neurology rather than psychiatry.  I just do not think that schizophrenia is very real.  I think it is quite a loose and poorly defined diagnosis used anyway the system chooses too.  Anyway that a psychiatrist or psychologist, social worker or mental health worker decides to.  It is quite vague and subjective, left up to too much bias. 

Then there are some states of psychosis which can be explained by culture, religion, personal beliefs.  And also psychosis due to the desire to die or kill, which are both quite normal.

Furthermore, the medications for schizophrenia are worthless.  Just toxic medications that justify a person being on disability or not having to work.  Instead, they should just put these people on welfare and let them simply be healthy living on the minimum income and benefits that the system can afford. 

To each his own, I guess.  But at the least choose a better diagnosis.