Better outcomes 3r world for MI

Its needs its own thread,

"People who suffer from schizophrenia in the Third World are twice as likely to recover as sufferers in the West, according to a report by the World Health Organisation.

Stigma and lack of strong family networks mean that only 15 per cent of schizophrenics in the West are likely to have made a good recovery from the first attack of their illness compared with 37 per cent of those in underdeveloped countries, Professor Julian Leff told the Royal College of Psychiatrists yesterday."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/menta ... 20282.html

I disagree with the reason given and think its the way the west uses medication on almost everyone diagnosed.

Zyprexa withdrawal gave me a mental illness with bipolar and schizophrenia symptoms when I was coming off that stuff that of course were blamed on "my illness" an Illness I never had before taking that stuff after Lilly drug reps gave out lots of free samples and promoted off label use like anxiety insomnia.

That's proof to me that these drugs make conditions chronic.

The other classes of drugs do the same thing having withdrawals looking just like the condition they claim to treat.

Its psychiatry itself causing many of the chronic cases of mental illness I believe.

"People who suffer from schizophrenia in the Third World are twice as likely to recover as sufferers in the West, according to a report by the World Health Organisation."

The article gives a number of possible explanations, including differences in, say, family structure and the job markets between industrialised and developing countries.

Copy_Cat, you may have a theory that it's the difference in psychiatric treatment that influences outcomes, but how are you going to demonstrate that that is actually the key factor?

In a different thread, you linked to this:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/kb/mental-he ... ius-on-who

and that article concludes:

"Various other reasons were examined but until now there is no simple explanation for the observed difference in outcome which very probably results from multiple biological and sociocultural factors and their different combinations."

After all, industrialised and developing nations differ in lots of ways.

Is the west so bad that your chances of recovery from mental illness with medication is worse than in a 3rd world place without any ?