Turns out being different can be okay.
followed a female patient who experiences auditory hallucinations and described the voices she often hears. As a child, doctors prescribed her multiple medications: antipsychotics for the voices, along with mood stabilizers, antidepressants, and stimulants for her attention deficit. For years, Caroline Mazel-Carlton tried to dampen the auditory hallucinations with medication, but dealt with side effects that made her jitter and pull out her hair.
Eventually, the patient found that going unmedicated and just being herself might actually be healthier. She now helps other patients experiment with the same strategy, and consults with parents, families and others trying to try to help their loved ones. In thereport, she spoke with a mother whose son thinks he's taking directions from God, but said medication may not be the answer.. "Pharmaceuticals are easily accessible — he knows that. He knows he can make that choice anytime.
The approach might not be right for everyone, but it does represent a provocative break from mainstream thinking that may well work for some people living with schizophrenia, which often causes people to hear voices or suffer from sometimes severe delusions. Needless to say, though, that's not a universal opinion, and different people experience schizophrenia in different ways. It's worth noting that some people who suffer from mental health issues are
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