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Posted by lori6 on May 20, 2015, at 15:36:48
Hi,
Has anyone heard of a possible connection between gluten sensitivity and schizophrenia?
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652467/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16423158
If there might be something to this, why do you suppose patients are not being informed of the possibility?
Thank you in advance.
Posted by Christ_empowered on May 20, 2015, at 16:45:07
In reply to gluten and schizophrenia, posted by lori6 on May 20, 2015, at 15:36:48
psychiatry isn't really about...you know...curing mental illness, especially severe mental illness. People w/ SMI tend to be poor and/or unemployed, economically un or under-productive. Read: we don't matter.
I do think Big Pharma has influence, but I mean...even in the 70s-80s, 90s, when most drugs for SMI were off patent and old, docs still weren't all that interested in anything particularly innovative.
As I see it, the problem is that madness is real, but psychiatry has never been about addressing it. Psychiatry is the practice of upper class people--mostly men--controlling and labeling and defining less important people--often women, minorities, the poor--and keeping us down. Yes, I said it: psychiatry is all about oppression, at least it is once you go off the rails, anyway.
So, yeah. I don't think mainstream psychiatry will ever look at this seriously. Mainstream psychiatry has yet to cure anyone of anything, because that's not what psychiatry was created for.
Posted by alexandra_k on May 20, 2015, at 21:40:26
In reply to gluten and schizophrenia, posted by lori6 on May 20, 2015, at 15:36:48
Who is going to fund a study to see whether gluten free diets helps this, that, or the other thing? I mean... Who stands to make money off of that, supposing it were true?
Posted by lori6 on May 21, 2015, at 14:09:17
In reply to gluten and schizophrenia, posted by lori6 on May 20, 2015, at 15:36:48
So true.
Posted by Phillipa on May 22, 2015, at 17:04:48
In reply to Thank you both, posted by lori6 on May 21, 2015, at 14:09:17
That Gluten is good for those unless they have an intestional illness like celiac disease
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