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Brief discussion of Buddhist Meditation and Schizophrenia Recovery
Schizophrenia recovery is perfectly possible. Buddhist meditation helped me do it. I also have been helped some by meditation. This however is a two edged sword as i almost died in 2002 from neuroleptic malignant syndrome. With the help of my great psychiatrist and my Buddhist mediation teacher Ken Tetsuji Byalin ( Staten Island Zen Community Priest and Sensei ) I was able to come off the deadly “cocktail” I was on. Now I am only on one small dose of any meditation for any condition. It is a psychiatric medication.
Buddhist meditation needs to be skillfully applied to schizophrenia recovery and mental health recovery.
If you wish you can begin to explore this at the links just below.
Aaron Beck Schizophrenia: Cognitive Theory, Research, and Therapy
has an excellent discussion of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy applied to schizophrenia. He discusses the transformation of “hot thougths” or very emotionally charged thoughts into “hearing voices.” He points to the excellent research of Marius Romme Psychosis as a Personal Crisis: An Experience-Based Approach (The International Society for the Psychological Treatments of the Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses)
Professor Romme is his work has found that 5 times more people are voice hearers than have trouble with voices. Voice hearing is thus not alone pathological. The methods of breath to apply “thinking non-thinking” or Buddhist meditation to voices is discussed in the links below.
More on the use of Buddhist Meditation to heal “mental illnesses” are available from Professor Ed. Click on this link.
Zen Dharma Recovery Mental Health Meditation Links
Other links on Professor Ed about schizophrenia:
What Is Actual Schizophrenia Recovery Rate
Professionals Labeled With Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, Neuroleptic Medications, Mortality
Will post more here soon on Buddhist meditation and schizophrenia recovery.
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Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Off Psychiatric Drugs
Schizophrenia is NOT hopeless!!!
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Kim Hopper PhD. A research study covering 18 countries. Showing 40% of people with schizophrenia work for pay across these countries and 20% with moderate to severe disability work for pay. Another %20 do meaningful household work as measured by scientific standards. This means that a meaningful contribution was made and would on the open market be paid for. So the total doing work is 60% with schizophrenia. Certainly a different picture than the media labeling and stereotyping.
Ralph and Corrigan reach the same conclusion that the actual recovery rate is 90% using a different method which gives further verification.
On the unnecessary and costly tragedy of “hospitalization”.
Transforming mental health systems to recovery.
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