johnbc wrote:but. if hopes are for another great advance in treatment...IT IS NOT HOW to proceed.
I beg to differ. It is well known that schizophrenia is a complex illness, and that fixing one part of the brain is not going to be enough. The first generation of antipsychotics targeted only dopamine receptors. The second generation now targets dopamine, serotonin and alpha receptors. The future generation plans to target even glutamate receptors. All this leads to a great concern due to more and more side effects. But it also leads to more and more people being successfully treated (less positive/negative/cognitive symptoms).
johnbc wrote:no..i am not sure how to proceed but i do believe psychiatry is too isolated...on its' own little island.
Like any other field of expertise, it's isolated, but doctors try to get rid of the patients they cannot treat, and offer them another option, such as a talk therapy. It used to be much worse in the days of lobotomy.
johnbc wrote:what i am saying is that should have been able to help ME.
Your case is very special. You had your symptoms for about a year, which classifies as schizophrenia, but the illness faded away, which means it was just an acute episode.
johnbc wrote:if i would have listened to the profession...i would be taking rhasperdol. omg!
Yea, but it would most likely mean that you'd be just taking it for a year (free of symptoms), and then you could discontinue the treatment. Many people do that.
Doctors try to do their best, but like I said, this is just the beginning, and this is not the perfect world.
Mirage