Rapid brain shrinkage an early sign of schizophrenia?

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"John" <John at overhere.com.au> put fingertips to keyboard and
tap-tap-tapped out the following communication: 

> 
> No-one knows how the human brain works, and it is not that uncommon in
> medicine to prescribe something with unknown effects to treat an order
> of unknown etiology. It is a problem but the best we can do at present
> is find out what does help and go from there.
> 
> 

The only 'etiology' involved here is someone's behavior, beliefs, way of 
life and perception of their surroundings. The interpretion of the above 
is 100 per cent subjective and it cannot be physically verified. 

Yet on a daily basis such subjective (and often overtly biased)
interpretations result in innocent people losing their freedom and the 
right to make  decisions on their own behalf, and being administered 
unhelpful and potentially damaging 'treatments' even over their clear 
objections. 

In some jurisdictions a single doctor's signature can make this happen 
and there is never anything even resembling due process. In others the 
judiciary does become involved in varying capacities but due to the 
overwhelming social bias connected to such situations it's impossible to 
guarantee fairness.

I still maintain that certain areas of 'research' need to be marked 
'don't go there' for moral reasons because the likelihood of lasting harm 
far outweighs any potential benefit. Personally, I'd go as far as to 
describe this kind of pseudo-medical meddling as being literally the rape 
of the human soul. 

As thinking beings, we were created with total individual control over 
who accesses our innermost mental processes for a very good reason. In 
its arrogance psychiatry is seeking to override this inviolable natural 
barrier, and then subjectively interpreting what it 'discovers' beyond 
there. And once more, the old adage that 'it's not nice to fool Mother 
Nature' holds true.


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