‘Schizophrenia’ at Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life, Page 2

Held captive for 54 days by a partner later diagnosed with schizophrenia, she spent years in hiding with the US government’s victim witness program. Here, in the second excerpt from her forthcoming book ‘The Ascension’, singer and composer Kathryn Keats reflects on her recovery from the ordeal and on how it feels to have changed her identity.

Schizophrenics struggle with such symptoms as hallucinations, delusions, social withdrawal, and other mental impairments that interfere with a normal lifestyle. Now a new federally-funded study has provided a head-to-head comparison of drugs that are most effective for treating schizophrenia. Another analysis of results for 300 patients provided more insight into the best medications for schizophrenia.

Held captive for 54 days by the man she loved, a man later diagnosed with schizophrenia, she still empathized with him and tried to save him. Singer/composer Kathryn Keats shares her story here, with the first excerpt from her forthcoming book called ‘The Ascension’.

Following successful clinical trials at the University of Bonn on transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression, Yale University researchers are now recruiting schizophrenic patients nationally for a clinical trial involving the use of TMS as a treatment for auditory hallucinations.

As new figures show that mental ill-health is costing the UK almost £100 billion a year, evidence released today by the Mental Health Foundation and Sustain reveals that changes to the human diet in the last fifty years or so could be an important factor behind the major rise of mental ill-health in the UK.