This song sounds familiar
Every now and then I see an article that I could swear I've seen before. Then I realize it's just that we are constantly bombarded with new ideas for "cures" for mental illness, which is okay, I suppose, but perhaps is misleading. While research is important, the reality is that many people can live fulfilling lives in absence of a total cure, in the same way I do, by being in recovery.
That being said, can fish oil be a preventive? Researchers in Australia believe so.
Fish oil may decrease risk of developing schizophrenia: research
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Sounds kind of fishy to me;) However, remember the goal of the writers of the DSM wasn't to make some people sick and some people well, it was to come up with a description of every sort of "mental" concern anyone might have so that insurance would cover therapy for everyone. In other words, it's normal to be mentally ill, or a better way to put it, all humans would benefit from therapy...which might be true if all therapy was theraputic.
Posted by: Sally | December 2, 2007 02:08 PM
Do the pharma companies want to pay for this fish study? How do they measure psychosis?
"we saw that about 5 per cent in the omega-3 group developed psychosis, and there were 28 per cent in the placebo group"
If this is indeed physical, then it no longer mental. Just like Epilepsy was declasified . It would be wild
Posted by: mark p.s. | December 2, 2007 07:59 PM